Last updated: February, 2016
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Name:
William Elming
Born: January 21, 1988
Email: williamelming@gmail.com
Education
2011 - 2014
University of Copenhagen, MSc in Economics
–Grade Point Average: 12.0 (top 1%)
–Masters Thesis: Testing for a housing wealth effect - A new approach
s • Examines the impact of changes in house prices on in individual savings behavior
s • Funded by a research grant from The Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI)
2011 - 2012
University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting student as part of my MSc
–Grade Point Average: 3.9 - Dean’s Honers
2008 - 2011
University of Copenhagen, BSc in Economics
–Grade Point Average: 10.3 (top 2%)
–Bachelors Thesis: Hysteresis (grade: 12)
Work Experience
2014- DATE
Research Economist,
Direct Taxes and Welfare sector, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
• Current academic research projects:
– “Human capital accumulation and the gender wage gap” (joint work with Blundell, R., Costa Dias, M. and Meghir, C.)
– “How Long Lasting are the Effects of Tax Audits?” (joint work with Shaw, J. and
Advani, A.)
– “Housing equity, debt dynamics and saving over the Great Recession” (joint work
with Ermler, A.)
• Research fellow of the Tax Administration Research Center (TARC)
• Conducting policy oriented work with a focus on the distributional impact and the
impact on work incentives of tax and benefit reforms
• Disseminating work to the media
2013
Graduate Teaching Assistant,
Advanced Microeconometrics, University of Copenhagen
• This course enables students to use advanced statistical methods to answer complex
economic questions often encountered in a government agency or in the private sector
• Responsible for teaching 100+ Master and Ph.D students and designing the structure
and material of the seminars
2013
Junior Economist,
Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Interior, International Economics, Copenhagen
• Assisted in analysis of fiscal policy, international financial regulation and the Nordic
housing market
• Responsible for estimating a cointegrated VAR model of the Danish housing market to
be used in the triannual publication ’Economic Survey’
2012
Teaching Assistant,
Macroeconomics A, University of Copenhagen
2009 - 2011
Junior Management Consultant,
Competencehouse Plc, Copenhagen
• Extensive client exposure and experience with project management and co-managing
steering committee meetings
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Publications
2015
Adam, S, Browne, J. and Elming, W., “The Effect of the UK Coalition Government’s Tax and
Benefit Changes on Household Incomes and Work Incentives”, Fiscal Studies, Volume 36,
Issue 3, pages 375–402, September 2015
2015
Advani, A., Elming, W. and Shaw, J., “How long-lasting are the effects of audits?,” TARC
Discussion Paper, January 2015
2015
Elming, W., Emmerson, C., Johnson, P., Phillips, D., “An assessment of the potential compensation provided by the new ‘National Living Wage’ for the personal tax and benefit
measures announced for implementation in the current parliament,” IFS Briefing Note 157,
September 2015
Presentations
2015
“How Long Lasting are the Effects of Tax Audits?” presented at International Institute of
Public Finance yearly conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
2015
“Housing equity, debt dynamics and saving over the Great Recession” presented at Household Finance and Economic Stability workshop at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2015
“The new ‘National Living Wage’ in the context of planned personal tax and benefit reforms” presented to the Low Pay Commision at a Non-technical research workshop, London
2015
“Using administrative data to investigate behavior” presented at the joint workshop between TARC and the Institute for Quantitative and Technical Economics in Beijing, China
2015
“Labour Supply, Taxes and Benefits” lecture given to third year economics students at The
University of Oxford and The University of Cambridge
2016
“How Long Lasting are the Effects of Tax Audits?” Presented to civil servants in Her Majesty’s
Revenue and Customs, London
Knowledge dissimination
2015
Orientering, Danmarks Radio, P1, “UK Summer Budget 2015, expert opinion on the distributional consequences of the proposed benefit cuts”, July 2015
2015
Quoted in the Financial Times and other newspapers on the distributional impact of raising
the National Minimum Wage to the new “National Living Wage”
2015
Gave evidence on the impact of cuts to tax credits and the interaction with the National
Living Wage to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee
Selected Academic Achievements and Leadership Experiences
2013
2nd place Econometric Games 2013 (see econometricgame.com)
• Applied a cointegrated VAR model to investigate whether innovations to fiscal policy
exhibit a permanent or temporary effect on economic growth
• Utilized a semi-parametric principle component approach to forecast the Spanish GDP
growth for 2013
2011
Selected to participate at McKinsey’s Inspirational Leadership 4 day seminar at McKinsey’s
Alpine University, Kitzbühel, Austria
2010
Euroclear Scholarship Recipient; University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics Scholarship Recipient
2006 - 2008
Youth Volleyball Coach
2004
Captain of the Danish Junior National Volleyball Team
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IT
Language
Matlab
R
Stata
Sas System
CATS for RATS
OxMetrics
LATEX
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Danish (Native)
English (Fluent)
French (Basic)