Programme Area
The Public Economics (PE) programme brings together researchers interested in analysing the efficiency and distributional effects of all kinds of government interventions in the economy (including e.g. tax and transfer policies, social insurance and all forms of government spending programmes) as well as an understanding of the way that these programmes affect the behaviour of households and firms.
Key areas covered are:-
- government expenditures
- social policy
- welfare state
- taxation
Annual Symposium
The PE Annual Symposium is a two-day conference typically held in May/June. The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for high-quality work in public economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe, as well as key researchers from outside the region.
Programme Directors
Research Fellows
Eliana La Ferrara
Fellow, Development EconomicsSøren Leth-Petersen
Fellow, Public EconomicsMassimo Morelli
Fellow, Political EconomyProject news
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