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

Researchers

Daron Acemoğlu

Institute Professor in the Department of Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Jerome Adda

Professor, Department of Economics Bocconi University

Oriana Bandiera

Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics London School of Economics and Political Science

Roland Bénabou

Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Princeton University

Graziella Bertocchi

President Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF); Professor of Economics University Of Modena And Reggio Emilia

Tim Besley

School Professor of Economics and Political Science and the W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics London School of Economics and Political Science

David Bloom

Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography Harvard University

Richard Blundell

Director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy Institute For Fiscal Studies; David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy University College London

Pierre Boyer

Full Professor (with Tenure) in the CREST-Department of Economics Ecole Polytechnique; Deputy director of the Institut and Program Director “Democracy and Institutions” The Institute for Public Policy (IPP)

Marius Brülhart

Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor of Economics HEC Lausanne

Robin Burgess

Professor of Economics, Co-Founder and Director of the International Growth Centre and Director of the Economics of Environment and Energy Research Programme London School of Economics and Political Science

Antonio Cabrales

Full Professor and Research Chair in Economics Universidad Carlos III De Madrid

Carlo Carraro

Professor of Environmental Economics Ca Foscari University of Venice

Fellow, Public Economics / RPN Member, Climate Change

Alessandra Casella

Professor of Economics and Political Science and Co-Director of Columbia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Columbia University

Raj Chetty

William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics Harvard University

Gabriella Conti

Professor in Economics in the Department of Economics University College London

Giacomo Corneo

Professor of Public Finance and Social Policy Freie Universität Berlin

Michael Devereux

Director of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, Professor of Business Taxation, Professorial Fellow at Oriel College and CEPR Research Fellow University Of Oxford

Matthias Doepke

Professor of Economics London School of Economics and Political Science; Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History Northwestern University

Eric Baird French

Co-Director Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy; Professor of Economics University College London

Vincenzo Galasso

Head of the Department of Social and Political Science, Director of the Research Unit 'Analysis in Pension Economics' and Professor of Economics Bocconi University

Robert J. Gary-Bobo

Researcher Center for Research in Economics and Statistics; Professor of Economics Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Hans Gersbach

Professor of Macroeconomics, Innovation and Policy ETH Zurich

Maitreesh Ghatak

Professor of Economics London School of Economics and Political Science

Roger Gordon

Adjunct Professor Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; Professor of Economics University of California, San Diego

Julien Grenet

Professor of Economics, CNRS/Paris School of Economics Deputy Director, Institut des Politiques Publiques CNRS and Paris School of Economics

Rachel Griffith

Research Director Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Professor, Department of Economics University Of Manchester

John Hassler

Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

Andrea Ichino

Managing Editor Economic Policy; Professor of Economics European University Institute; Professor of Economics University Of Bologna

Seema Jayachandran

Professor of Economics Northwestern University; Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Princeton University

Henrik Kleven

Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Princeton University

Kai A. Konrad

Director Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

Wojciech Kopczuk

Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs Columbia University

Francis Kramarz

Professor and Research Director Center for Research in Economics and Statistics; Visiting Professor Uppsala University

Dirk Krueger

Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics and Finance (Secondary) University of Pennsylvania

Per Krusell

Centennial Professor Department Of Economics, London School Of Economics And Political Science; Savings Banks Foundations and Swedbank Chair in Macroeconomics, Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg chair in Economics Institute For International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University

Eliana La Ferrara

Professor of Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School; Scientific Director Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies Bocconi University

Camille Landais

Professor of Economics London School of Economics and Political Science

Victor Lavy

William Haber Chaired Professor of Economics Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Chaired Professor of Economics Royal Holloway University of London

Erik Lindqvist

Professor Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

Marco Manacorda

Professor of Economics and Public Policy Queen Mary University Of London; Joint Managing Editor of The Economic Journal Royal Economic Society

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

Vice-Dean and Carlo Alberto Chair Collegio Carlo Alberto; Honorary Professor of Economics University of Essex; Professor of Economics University of Turin

Costas Meghir

Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics Yale University

David Miles

Professor of Economics Imperial College London Business School

Massimo Morelli

Professor of Political Science and Economics, Director of the Research Unit Pericles in the Baffi Carefin Center Bocconi University

Joana Naritomi

Assistant Professor London School of Economics and Political Science

Jessica Pan

Associate Professor of Economics National University Of Singapore

Eleonora Patacchini

Professor of Economics Bocconi University; Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair of International Political Economy (on leave) Cornell University

Torsten Persson

Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

Petra Persson

Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research; Assistant Professor of Economics Stanford University

Thomas Piketty

Co-director, World Inequality Lab & World Inequality Database; Professor of Economics Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Ronny Razin

Professor of Economics London School of Economics and Political Science

Alessandro Riboni

Researcher and Permanent Member Center for Research in Economics and Statistics; Professor of Economics Ecole Polytechnique

Johanna Rickne

Part-time Professor of Economics Stockholm School Of Economics; Professor of Economics Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University; Part-time Professor of Economics University Of Nottingham

Kimberley Scharf

Inaugural Visiting Scholar National Audit Office; Professor of Economics University of Warwick

Florian Scheuer

UBS Foundation Professor of Economics of Institutions and Chairman of the Department of Economics University of Zurich

Stefanie Stantcheva

Founder of the Social Economics Lab; Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy Harvard University

Flavio Toxvaerd

University Associate Professor Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Francesco Trebbi

Co-director of the NBER Political Economy Programme National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER); Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Chair and Professor of Business and Public Policy University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Jean-Robert Tyran

Professor Economics (part-time) University Of Copenhagen; Professor of Economics and Director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics University of Vienna

Arthur van Benthem

Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

Shlomo Weber

Leading Scientist, Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions New Economic School; Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics Southern Methodist University

Justin Wolfers

Professor of Economics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

Noam Yuchtman

Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy London School of Economics and Political Science

Yves Zenou

Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor and Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics Monash University

Research affiliates

Alexandra Avdeenko

Lecturer in Economics and Affiliated to the Chair International and Development Politics and to the Experimental Economics Group Heidelberg University; Researcher for the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice Team The World Bank

Audinga Baltrunaite

Economist in the Economics and Law Research Department Bank Of Italy; Member of the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality Bocconi University

Teodora Boneva

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of Zurich; Professor of Applied Microeconomics University Of Bonn

Laurent Bouton

Professor of Economics Georgetown University; Research Associate National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER)

Caterina Calsamiglia

Research Professor CEMFI; Affiliated Professor ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona School of Economics

Pamela Campa

Assistant Professor of Economics Stockholm School Of Economics

Jonathan Goupille-Lebret

Associate Professor Ecole Normale Superieure De Lyon; CNRS Research Associate Professor GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne; CNRS Research Associate Professor University of Lyon, CNRS; CNRS Research Assistant Professor

Irem Güçeri

Associate Professor Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Henning Hermes

Postdoc Research Affiliate Postdoc Postdoc Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Xavier Jaravel

Associate Professor of Economics London School of Economics and Political Science

Lorenz Kueng

Faculty Member Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University; Faculty Member Swiss Finance Institute; Professor of Economics Università Della Svizzera Italiana

Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Assistant Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business New York University

Arash Nekoei

Assistant Professor of Economics Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

Amma Panin

Assistant Professor of Economics IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain; Assistant Professor University of Louvain

Francesca Parodi

Assistant Professor of Economics Collegio Carlo Alberto; Research Associate Institute For Fiscal Studies; Research Fellow University of Turin

Anna Raute

Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Economics Queen Mary University Of London

Daniel Reck

Assistant Professor London School of Economics and Political Science

Christopher Roth

Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods; Professor of Economics and Management University Of Cologne

Benjamin Schoefer

Visiting Scholar Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco; Faculty Research Fellow National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER); Associate Professor (with Tenure) University Of California, Berkeley

David Seim

Professor Assistant Professor of Economics Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

Nicolas Werquin

Economist Federal Reserve, Bank of Chicago; Associate Faculty Toulouse School Of Economics