Kate Smith

Associate and Assistant Professor of Economics

Expertise: public finance, industrial organisation, applied microeconomics

Email:

k.e.smith2@lse.ac.uk

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Public Economics
Department of Economics

Biography

Kate Smith is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, LSE and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She received her PhD from University College London. Her research interests are in public finance, industrial organisation and applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on tax policy.

Latest

Labour Markets Workshops

How do wealth transfers in early adulthood affect savings and income trajectories

18 March 2025

Kate Smith (LSE)

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Capital Taxation and Entrepreneurship

08 December 2021

Kate Smith (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

Policymakers often want to encourage entrepreneurial activity. Commonly, they do this through preferential tax rates on business income, but these come with a substantial tax revenue cost. We develop a dynamic model of b... Read more...