IREF Research Fellows: past and present

Tugberk Kaya, Cyprus International University
Burak Erkut, Technische Universität Dresden
Digitalization and its impact on political decision-making processes

Fei Xu, University of Manchester
Regulations, Corruption decision and anti-corruption policies

Julian Arndts, University of Applied Sciences Europe
Kalle Kappner, Humboldt University Berlin
Taxing artificial intelligences

Christian Nasulea, University of Bucharest
Diana-Florentina Spinu, University of Bucharest
The burden of CE marking

Elena Kantorowizc-Reznichenko, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Is there a tradeoff between Nudges’ Trasparency and their effectiveness ?

Jaroslaw Kantorowizc, Leiden University
Judiciary — a missing link in understanding fiscal policy outcomes

Ryan Khurana, Cevro Institute Prague
Regulatory Conditions affecting Startups in the EU

Boris Gurov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Momtchil Karpuzanov, American University in Bulgaria
Reciprocal spoliation

Omer F. Baris, Nazarbayev University
Theory of the state

Aristides Hatzis, University of Athens
Greek institutional deficit

Sergio Beraldo, University of Napoli "Federico II"
An Impossibility Result on Nudging Grounded in the Theory of Intentional Action.
Christian Bjørnskov, Aarhus University; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IIFN)) Martin Rode, University of Navarra
And yet it grows - Crisis, ideology, and interventionist policy ratchets

Alexander Fink, University of Leipzig
The political economy of state-owned lotteries

Enrico Colombatto, University of Turin
Valerio Tavormina, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
The Origins of Private Property

Francesco Ramella
Climate change: what we know, what we don’t know. What to do and what not to do

Niclas Berggren, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Department of Institutional, Environmental and Experimental Economics (KIE), University of Economics in Prague
Christian Bjørnskov, Aarhus University; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IIFN))
Regulation and government debt

Roberto Ippoliti, Italian National School of Administration, Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister’s Office)
Giovanni B. Ramello, University of Eastern Piedmont; Institute of Public Policy and Collective Choices (PPOLIS)
Efficiency and productivity of tax courts

Spasimir Domaradzki
Tax policies in Poland, Slovakia, and Bulgaria: sitting on a ticking bomb or catching up with the West?

Philip M. Booth, St Mary’s University Twickenham
John Meadowcroft, King’s College London Strand
The confluence of ideas and interests in the process of rent destruction: the case of UK tax policy 1979-1997

Fabio Lamantia, University of Calabria
Mario Pezzino, University of Manchester
Tax evasion, intrinsic motivation, and the evolutionary effect of a flat rate

Andreas Hoffmann, University of Leipzig
Why Do Low Interest Rates Not Fuel Credit Growth in the New Member States of the EU?

Philipp Bagus, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
The ZIRP Trap: Why low interest rates are a tax on recovery

Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, University of North Florida
Pierre Garello, Aix Marseille University
The Effect of Tax Progressivity on the Quality of Entrepreneurship

Gordon Kerr, Cobden Partners
The Case for Systemic Banking Reform

Alexander Fink, University of Leipzig
The effects of fiscal decentralization on working hours: Does it matter which government level taxes and spends?

Fabio Méndez, Loyola University of Maryland
Facundo Sepúlveda, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
A comparative study of training in the private and public sectors: Evidence from the UK and the USA

Niclas Berggren, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Department of Institutional, Environmental and Experimental Economics (KIE), University of Economics in Prague
Christian Bjørnskov, Aarhus University; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IIFN)) David Lipka, School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Anglo American University and Jan Evangelista Purkyne University
Legitimacy and the Cost of Government

Kevin Dowd, Cobden Partners; Durham Business School
Projecting State Pensions

Stefan Lutz, University of Manchester
Effects of taxation on European multi-nationals’ financing and profits

Stefan Voigt, University of Hamburg
Nora El-Bialy, University of Hamburg
Identifying the Determinants of Judicial Performance: Taxpayers’ Money Well Spent?

Sergio Beraldo, University of Napoli "Federico II"
Massimiliano Piacenza, University of Torino
Gilberto Turati, University of Torino
Individual Responsibility and Social Preferences for Redistribution: An Experimental Study

Vani K. Borooah, University of Ulster
When the Lights Go Out: Europe in an Age of Austerity

Sergio Beraldo, University of Napoli "Federico II"
Massimiliano Piacenza, University of Torino
Gilberto Turati, University of Torino
Fiscal Decentralization in Weak Institutional Environments: Evidence from Southern Italy

Jean-Michel Josselin, Université de Rennes I
Fabio Padovano, Université de Rennes I; DIPES-Università Roma Tre – Roma
Yvon Rocaboy, Université de Rennes I
Fiscal Rules vs. Political Culture as Determinants of Soft Budget Spending Behaviors

Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, University of North Florida
Pierre Garello, Aix Marseille University
Tax Structure and Entrepreneurship