Michael Barczay (Ph.D. in economics, EUI Florence) is an economist in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Study Center Gerzensee in Switzerland. Michael’s research focuses on topics at the intersection of macroeconomics and public finance. Among other areas, his work examines the optimal design of consumption taxes, the political economy of green subsidies, and the effects of mobile money taxes in Sub-Saharan Africa.