About me:
I am an Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Department of Economics and Econonic History and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics since September 2025. I am also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since December 2020. I got my PhD from the Toulouse School of Economics in October 2009. My publications and research papers are here and my full CV is here.
Research interests:
Risk sharing, Consumption, Optimal taxation, Dynamic contracts
Fields: Macroeconomics, Public Finance
Contact details:
Department of Economics and Economic History
Campus de la UAB
Edifici B
08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
Barcelona, Spain
Email: Sarolta.Laczo[at]uab.cat
Sarolta Laczó
(Sharolta Latso)
Research
Publications
Efficient Risk Sharing and Separation (2024) with Árpád Ábrahám, Journal of Economic Theory 219, 105849.
Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes (2023) with Katharina Greulich and Albert Marcet
Journal of Political Economy 131(7), pp. 1904-1946.
Time-Consistent Consumption Taxation (2020) with Raffaele Rossi
Journal of Monetary Economics 114, pp. 194-220.
Efficient Risk Sharing with Limited Commitment and Storage (2018) with Árpád Ábrahám
Review of Economic Studies 85(3), pp. 1389-1424.
Matching to Share Risk without Commitment (2018) with Johannes Gierlinger
Economic Journal 118, pp. 2003-2031.
Risk Sharing with Limited Commitment and Preference Heterogeneity: Structural Estimation and Testing (2015)
Journal of the European Economic Association 13(2), pp. 265-292.
Does Risk Sharing Increase with Risk Aversion and Risk when Commitment is Limited? (2014)
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 46, pp. 237-251.
Research in progress
Heterogeneity and Time-Consistency with Albert Marcet
Joint Saving with Separation with Árpád Ábrahám
Last updated: 18 September 2025