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I am an applied economist and my primary research interests are within the field of public economics, in particular they are related to taxation and tax systems analysis, tax administration, fiscal federalism and applied microeconomics.
I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Economics Department (UFAE) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and I am also affiliated at the Barcelona GSE. I am also Associate Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) and at the Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC) of the University of Exeter. Previously I was Visiting Professor at the UFAE-UAB, Adjunct Professor in public economics at Bocconi University of Milan, Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) and Junior Researcher at Econpubblica - Bocconi.
I have a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in economics and social sciences from Bocconi University and I have obtained my Ph.D. in economics (cum laude) from the University of Barcelona. My doctoral dissertation, Essays on Tax Administration, analyses the presence of externalities in tax administration in a federal context. By focusing on the Spanish case I prove the existence of two kinds of externalities that might arise in tax administration policies when decentralized. These are: inter-jurisdictional externalities due to the federal institutional design (competition vs. cooperation), and tax authority's endogenous reaction to external shocks (in terms of changes in tax enforcement) as a result of tax autonomy.
I have published my research in international refereed journals such as International Tax and Public Finance and the Journal of Tax Administration.
I am an applied economist and my primary research interests are within the field of public economics, in particular they are related to taxation and tax systems analysis, tax administration, fiscal federalism and applied microeconomics.
I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Economics Department (UFAE) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and I am also affiliated at the Barcelona GSE. I am also Associate Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) and at the Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC) of the University of Exeter. Previously I was Visiting Professor at the UFAE-UAB, Adjunct Professor in public economics at Bocconi University of Milan, Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) and Junior Researcher at Econpubblica - Bocconi.
I have a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in economics and social sciences from Bocconi University and I have obtained my Ph.D. in economics (cum laude) from the University of Barcelona. My doctoral dissertation, Essays on Tax Administration, analyses the presence of externalities in tax administration in a federal context. By focusing on the Spanish case I prove the existence of two kinds of externalities that might arise in tax administration policies when decentralized. These are: inter-jurisdictional externalities due to the federal institutional design (competition vs. cooperation), and tax authority's endogenous reaction to external shocks (in terms of changes in tax enforcement) as a result of tax autonomy.
I have published my research in international refereed journals such as International Tax and Public Finance and the Journal of Tax Administration.