The Public Sector Economics area of the CESifo research network, organised by Rick van der Ploeg, European University Institute Florence, aims to promote scientific progress in the field and to contribute new insights into important real-world policy problems of Public Finance. The research interests of members in this area span a wide range of topics and policy issues, reflecting the broadness of scope of the discipline of Public Economics. Members are currently doing research on problems of public finance in an integrating world economy; fiscal competition and fiscal co-ordination; geography and public policy; social security and pension reform in an ageing society; the effects of taxation on unemployment and human capital formation; the scope for environmental tax reforms; public finance and education; tax evasion; and the political economy of public finance. Assistant to this area is Björn Kauder.
Rick van der Ploeg
Rick van der Ploeg is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre). He is Elected Member of the Unesco World Heritage Committee. He began his career as an academic economist working on international macroeconomics, public finance, and environmental economics and published in all leading journals on these topics. From 1994 to 2002, he traded in his academic hat for that of a politician. In the first half of his political tenure Rick was chief financial spokesman of the Labour party in the Dutch parliament. After that he served as State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science.
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Area Conference on Public Sector Economics
About the CESifo Area Conference Public Sector Economics 2010 with Rick van der Ploeg
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