Valeria Merlo
181 posts
@Valeria7Merlo
Professor of Economics @uni_tue, Research fellow @CESifoGroup, International Economics, Taxation, Applied Econometrics | @valeriamerlo.bsky.social
🚨Attention all international tax scholars! 💰🌍🧑🎓 We are super excited to share that our International Tax Institutions database became public! The ITI provides in a single place the most relevant tax indicators for more than 200 jurisdictions over two decades 🧵
We are excited to announce the inaugural Asian Conference on Organizational Economics, which will be held @HKUFBE on March 13th and 14th! More information, in particular on how to submit a paper, can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1e4…
💰 NEW: Research Handbook on the Economics of Tax Havens by Arjan Lejour of @TilburgU and Dirk Schindler of @ErasmusESE FREE chapter: doi.org/10.4337/978180… More information: e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/9781… #TaxHavens #TaxAvoidance @AlfonsJ64 @MarcelOlbert @WeckStefan
This is really big. A machine learning study has found that the political leanings of economists not only influence the language they use to present their results in academic research, but also the very estimates they produce for several “objective” variables, such that the implied policy prescription is consistent with their partisan leaning. This might shake economics to its core. Economics has built much of its credibility on the presumption that its analyses are largely objective and that the role of politics is to choose trade-offs between objective benefits and costs on qualitatively different dimensions. This article demonstrates that these “objective” benefits and costs may not actually be objective but instead a biased function of the economist’s political orientation. Paper: academic.oup.com/ej/article/134…
Our PhD students were stoked to have @surethsloane over @uni_tue for an intense two-day immersion into business taxation. We had heated discussions on everything from how not to double-count MNE profits to how IRS resources affect the audit process of corporations. Thanks Caren!
¿Estás pensando en arrancar una maestría en 2025? Sumate a la reunión informativa virtual de la Maestría en Economía de la UNLP @economicas_unlp Agendá: 🗓 25 de septiembre 🕕18:00 hs. 🔗 Zoom: zoom.us/j/91529702650 Más info en: me.econo.unlp.edu.ar ¡Te esperamos!
🗓️ 23/8 🕧 12:30hs Seminario de Investigación del @IIEunlp "Corporate Taxation and Firm Productivity" ⚪️ Presenta: @Valeria7Merlo (@uni_tue & @CESifoGroup) Inscripción: forms.gle/XiKTXJpoK6mhgn… +info: bit.ly/seminarioInv23…
Thanks to all the participants of our @CESifoNetworkVenice Summer institute for an amazing two tax days! Thanks to our amazing keynote speakers @AnneBrockmeyer & @ron_b_davies and to my fantastic co-organizer @annette_als as well as Karin Fournier for making it happen.
