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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 affiliated at the Barcelona GSE (UAB), at the Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC) of the University of Exeter and at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB). 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 research activity has initially focused on 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. By taking again the Spanish framework as a case study I have also investigated the impact of the economic cycle on tax enforcement. According to this analysis tax enforcement presents a prevailing countercyclical trend in Spain, but in presence of severe economic crisis turns out to be pro-cyclical. My ongoing work-in-progress papers further this research line by studying other aspects of tax policy and administration. See research for more details.
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 affiliated at the Barcelona GSE (UAB), at the Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC) of the University of Exeter and at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB). 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 research activity has initially focused on 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. By taking again the Spanish framework as a case study I have also investigated the impact of the economic cycle on tax enforcement. According to this analysis tax enforcement presents a prevailing countercyclical trend in Spain, but in presence of severe economic crisis turns out to be pro-cyclical. My ongoing work-in-progress papers further this research line by studying other aspects of tax policy and administration. See research for more details.
I have published my research in international refereed journals such as International Tax and Public Finance and the Journal of Tax Administration.
