Alexey Zamnius delivered a report at the International Scientific Conference “Lomonosov-2025”

On April 14, Alexey Zamnius, Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s Mathematical Modeling of Economic Processes Department, took part in the International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scholars "Lomonosov-2025." The event is held to develop the creative activity of students, postgraduates and young researchers, to involve them in solving urgent problems of modern science, to preserve and develop a unified international scientific and educational space, and to establish contacts between future colleagues.

In the Macroeconomics panel, Alexey Zamnius presented the report "Assessing the impact of progressivity of the taxation system in Russia within the OLG-model." In it, the expert analyzes how strong will be the macroeconomic effects of increasing the degree of progressivity of the income tax scale in Russia.

Key findings:

  • Russian households, on the one hand, react poorly to wage shocks by changing their labor intensity, and on the other hand, are characterized by a high degree of risk aversion, i.e. they are inclined to consume additional income now rather than postpone it for the future.
  • The high degree of uncertainty contributes to the fact that the additional income that accrues to low-income earners due to the shift of the tax burden to the richer ones is more likely to be spent on current consumption rather than on saving or investing.
  • Ita Increasing the degree of progressivity of the taxation scale has only a moderate impact on capital accumulation by low-income individuals in Russia, so the level of inequality in society reacts to such policies weaker than in other countries.

Report presentation>>>

Monday, 14.04.2025