CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Data:
Full Name: Panu Poutvaara
Date of Birth: July 5, 1973
Citizenship: Finnish
Contact Information:
Office: ifo Institute Poschingerstr. 5 81679 Munich Germany.
E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.cesifo-group.de/poutvaara-p
Education:
Doctor in Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2002. Licentiate of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, 1999. Master of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, 1997.
Stays abroad during studies:
Center for Economic Studies (CES), Munich. Marie Curie Fellow, December 2000 – March 2001.
Harvard University, Department of Economics. Visiting Fellow, September 1999 – June 2000.
Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France. Erasmus student January – June 1997.
Career:
Professor, University of Munich, October 2010 –
Director of the ifo Center for International Institutional Comparisons and Migration Research (until June 2013 Head of Department International Institutional Comparisons), ifo Institute, Munich, October 2010 –
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Helsinki, November 2006 – September 2010.
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Research Fellow, RUESG, University of Helsinki. August – October 2006. RUESG Research Associate until 2008.
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Helsinki, August 2005 – July 2006.
Docent, University of Helsinki, 2005 –. Fellow at HECER, 2005 – 2010.
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), June 2002 – June 2005. Externally July 2005 – 2009.
Civil service at the Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT), Helsinki, August 2001 – July 2002: research, co-editor of a book on tax competition.
Researcher, the Academy of Finland (at the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki): August 1999 – July 2001. (On leave of absence August 1999 – July 2000)
Assistant, the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki: December 1997 – July 1999.
Teaching Assistant in different courses at the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki: 1996-1997.
Trainee at the Research Department of the Bank of Finland, June – August 1996.
Research project for the Student Union of the University of Helsinki, 1995.
Research Network Affiliations:
CESifo Research Network Fellow since 2008 (Affiliate 2003 – 2008).
IZA Research Fellow since 2004.
CReAM Fellow since 2013.
VATT Affiliated Researcher since 2017.
Fellowships:
CES Visiting Scholar, 2003, 2008.
Marie Curie Fellow, CES, 2000 – 2001.
Jahnsson Foundation Fulbright Fellowship, Harvard University, 1999 – 2000.
Awards in Economics:
Myrdal Prize for the best article published in Ekonomisk Debatt in 2009, for joint paper ”Själviska och framåtblickande väljare - Hur många röster köpte maxtaxan i barnomsorgen?”, 2010.
2 Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize at the IIPF Congress, for joint paper “Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence on Pocketbook Voting”, 2008. (Paper published in EER under new title “Promises, Policies and Pocketbook Voting”)
Osuuspankkien Tutkimussäätiö (Research Foundation of Okobank Group) Reward for Licentiate’s Thesis, 2000.
Snellman Foundation Reward for Master’s Thesis, 1999.
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Reward for Master’s Thesis, 1998.
Research Projects with External Funding:
Language-Skill Investments and Migration Decisions (joint applicant with Silke Übelmesser, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena), funded by DFG (German Research Foundation), ifo share EUR 65,760, 2018 – 2020.
Coordinator of the Center of Excellence for Migration and Integration Research (CEMIR), which brings together migration research in four Ifo departments, funded by the Leibniz Association, EUR 740,000, 2012 – 2015.
Participant and Team Leader in research consortium TEMPO (TEmporary Migration, integration and the role of POlicies), funded by NORFACE Research Programme on Migration in Europe, own share EUR 176,400, 2010 – 2013.
Coordinator on the CEBR side of the research project “Danes Abroad: Economic and Social Motivations for Emigration and Return Migration” (joint project between CEBR and SFI – The Danish National Centre for Social Research). The project received from the Danish Social Science Research Council DKK 3.5 million in 2007.
Personal grant of EUR 12,000 from the Finnish Cultural Foundation in 2007 for a research project examining the effect of the MP salary on selection into politics.
At CEBR, joint coordinator of research project “Fiscal Regimes, Human Capital Formation, and Structural Reforms in the European Union” 2003-2005. The project received from the Danish Social Science Research Council DKK 3.0 million.
At CEBR, coordinator of project “Education Policy, International Students and Migration Flows: An Economic Analysis” in 2004-2005. The project received from EPRU Research Network DKK 275,074.
Several grants over years from the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation for various projects.
Editorial Services:
Managing editor, CESifo Economic Studies, 2010 –.
Associate editor, Finnish Economic Papers, 2011 –.
Member of the editorial board, Leadership Quarterly, 2016 –.
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Editor, Finnish Economic Papers, 2007 – 2010.
Member of the editorial board, European Journal of Political Economy, 2008 – 2010.
Guest editorships: FinanzArchiv, volume 62, number 3, 2006. (Fiscal Federalism) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, volume 90, 2013. (Ethics and Economics). Leadership Quarterly, volume 25, number 5, 2014 (Facial Appearance and Leadership).
Refereeing:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Berkeley Electronic Press Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, Canadian Journal of Economics, CESifo Economic Studies, Defence and Peace Economics, Demography, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economica, Economics of Education Review, Economics of Governance, Education Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, European Journal of Social Psychology, FinanzArchiv, Finnish Economic Papers, Fiscal Studies, German Economic Review, German Politics, Homo Oeconomicus, International Sociology, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Labour Economics, Leadership Quarterly, Political Psychology, Public Choice, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Income and Wealth, Review of International Economics, Review of International Organizations, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Social Psychology, Southern Economic Journal.
Evaluations as Scientific Expert:
Evaluation of fellowship and project applications at the University of Helsinki Project reviews for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), German Research Foundation (DFG), German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), NORFACE, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Main Policy Advising:
Leading ifo team writing a proposal on how Germany should organize work-based immigration for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria in 2017.
Leading ifo team writing two reports to the French Senate in 2015 and 2016.
4 Expert Advisor during spring 2009 for the Working Group on the Development of Taxation, established by the Ministry of Finance in 2008.
Expert testimony at the Finnish Parliament, November 2009.
Publications:
Theses:
Essays on the Political Economy of Education and Income Redistribution. Kansantaloustieteen laitoksen tutkimuksia (Publication series of the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki). Dissertationes Oeconomicae. No. 89:2001.
Risky Education, Taxation, and Mobility of Labor. Kansantaloustieteen laitoksen tutkimuksia (Publication series of the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki), No. 81:1999. Licentiate’s thesis.
Articles in Refereed Journals:
“Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics.” Forthcoming in the Economic Journal. (with George J. Borjas, Ilpo Kauppinen).
“Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare.” Forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association. (with Michele Battisti, Gabriel Felbermayr and Giovanni Peri).
“Shocking News and Cognitive Performance.” European Journal of Political Economy 51, 93-106, 2018. (with Olli Ropponen).
“Returns to Office in National and Local Politics: A Bootstrap Method and Evidence from Finland.” Journal of Law Economics and Organization 33, 413–442, 2017. (with Kaisa Kotakorpi and Marko Terviö)
“How Do Candidates’ Looks Affect their Election Chances?” IZA World of Labor 2017: 370 doi: 10.15185/izawol.370.
“The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It.” Journal of Public Economics 146, 79–86, 2017. (with Niclas Berggren and Henrik Jordahl).
“Parties as Efficiency-improving Gate-keepers in Rent-seeking Societies.” European Journal of Political Economy, 38, 87–101, 2015. (with Topi Miettinen).
“Promises, Policies and Pocketbook Voting.” European Economic Review, 75, 177– 194, 2015. (with Mikael Elinder and Henrik Jordahl).
“Public-sector Outsourcing.” IZA World of Labor 2014: 65 doi: 10.15185/izawol.65.
5 “The Five-Factor Model of Personality and Degree and Transitivity of Facebook Social Networks.” Journal of Research in Personality, 50, 98-101, 2014. (with Jan- Erik Lönnqvist, Juha Itkonen and Markku Verkasalo).
“A Market for Connections." European Journal of Political Economy, 33, 37-52, 2014. (with Topi Miettinen).
“Unemployment and Gang Crime: Can Prosperity Backfire?” Economics of Governance. 12 (3), 259–273, 2011. (with Mikael Priks).
"Foreign Students and Migration to the United States" World Development. 39, 1294- 1307, 2011. (with Axel Dreher).
“Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis” Journal of Public Economics. 95, 877-885, 2011 (with Kaisa Kotakorpi).
“The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation” European Journal of Political Economy. 27, 257-267, 2011.
“The Invisible Hand Plays Dice: Eventualities in Sects Markets” Public Choice 145, 483-502, 2010. (with Andreas Wagener).
“Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling” European Journal of Political Economy 26, 340-350, 2010. (with Amihai Glazer and Vesa Kanniainen).
“Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education?” FinanzArchiv. 66, 97-120, 2010. (with Katarina Keller and Andreas Wagener).
“The Looks of a Winner: Beauty and Electoral Success” Journal of Public Economics 94, 8-15, 2010. (with Niclas Berggren and Henrik Jordahl).
“Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations” International Tax and Public Finance 16, 697-709, 2009. (with Marko Koethenbuerger).
“Pareto-improving Bequest Taxation” International Tax and Public Finance 16, 647- 669, 2009. (with Volker Grossmann).
“Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries” Defense and Peace Economics 20, 373-393, 2009. (with Katarina Keller and Andreas Wagener).
“Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers: Comment.” and “Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers: Rejoinder.” Economics of Education Review 28, 641-644 and 648, 2009. (with Henrik Jordahl and Juha Tuomala.
“Faces of Politicians: Babyfacedness Predicts Inferred Competence but Not Electoral Success.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45, 1132-1135, 2009. (with Henrik Jordahl and Niclas Berggren).
6 “Hooliganism and Police Tactics.” Journal of Public Economic Theory 11, 441–453, 2009. (with Mikael Priks).
“The Effect of Police Intelligence on Group Violence: Evidence from Reassignments in Sweden.” Journal of Public Economics 93, 403-411, 2009. (with Mikael Priks).
“Smoking and Social Interaction.” Journal of Health Economics 27, 1503–1515, 2008. (with Lars Siemers).
“Public and Private Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 110, 591–608, 2008.
“Why is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument.” Journal of Economics 94, 105–124, 2008. (with Andreas Wagener).
“On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results.” Journal of Population Economics 21, 679-684, 2008.
“Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach.” Oxford Economic Papers 60, 275–292, 2008. (with Marko Koethenbuerger and Paola Profeta).
“Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration.” Journal of Public Economics 92, 915–923, 2008. (with Amihai Glazer and Vesa Kanniainen).
“To Draft or Not to Draft? Inefficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription.” European Journal of Political Economy 23, 975- 987, 2007. (with Andreas Wagener).
“Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor.” Journal of Public Economics 91, 1299–1325, 2007.
“Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship.” Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 28, 675-694, 2007. (with Vesa Kanniainen).
“Candidate Quality.” International Tax and Public Finance 14, 7-27, 2007. (with Tuomas Takalo).
”Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment.” Finnish Economic Papers 19, 16-24, 2006. (with Morten I. Lau).
”On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education.” Journal of Population Economics 19, 345-365, 2006.
“Social Security Reform and Investment in Education: Is there Scope for a Pareto- Improvement?” Economica 73, 299-319, 2006. (with Marko Köthenbürger).
“Growth in OECD Countries and Elsewhere: How Much Do Education and R&D Explain?” Economics Bulletin 15 no. 17, 1-11, 2005. (with Katarina Keller).
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“Educating Europe: Should Public Education be Financed with Graduate Taxes or Income-Contingent Loans?” CESifo Economic Studies 50 (4), 663-684, 2004.
“Dynamic Costs of the Draft.” German Economic Review 5 (4), 381-406, 2004. (with Morten I. Lau and Andreas Wagener).
“Citizens Should Vote on Secession.” Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 4: Article 23, 2004. (with Essi Eerola and Niku Määttänen).
“Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules.” FinanzArchiv 60 (3), 325-358, 2004. (with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Morten I. Lau).
“Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle- aged.” Journal of Public Economics 88, 161-174, 2004.
“Party Platforms with Endogenous Party Membership,” Public Choice 117, 79-98, 2003.
“Investment in Education and Redistributive Taxation without Pre-commitment.” FinanzArchiv 59 (2), 177-188, 2003.
“Income Redistribution and Risky Occupational Choices.” Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 2: No. 1, Article 8, 2002.
“Alternative Tax Constitutions and Risky Education in a Federation.” Regional Science and Urban Economics 31, 355-377, 2001.
“Education, Mobility of Labour and Tax Competition.” International Tax and Public Finance 7 (6), 699-719, 2000.
“Why Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment.” International Tax and Public Finance 7 (4/5), 547-562, 2000 (with Vesa Kanniainen).
Articles in General Interest Journals (Editorially refereed):
“Conscription: Economic Costs and Political Allure” (with Andreas Wagener). The Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2 (1), 6-15, 2007. http://www.epsjournal.org.uk/
Articles in Books:
“Prevention of Football Hooliganism: A Review of the Evidence.” (with Mikael Priks) in P. Sturmey (ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Violence and Aggression. John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2017.
“The Political Economy of Conscription” (with Andreas Wagener) in C. Coyne and R. L. Mathers (eds.), The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011. Pages
8 Comments and Editorial Articles in International Books and Refereed Journals:
“Facial appearance and leadership: An overview and challenges for new research,” Leadership Quarterly, 25, 801–804, 2014.
“An Introduction.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 90, 134-136, 2013. (with Vesa Kanniainen).
“Comments.” in S. Cnossen and H.-W. Sinn (eds.), Public Finance and Policy in the New Century, MIT Press. 2003. Pages 237-239.
“Comment on Wolfram F. Richter: Social Security and Taxation Subject to Subsidiarity and Freedom of Movement.” Swedish Economic Policy Review 9, 75-78, 2002.
Selected Working Papers:
“The Optimal Duration of Contracts.” (with Tuomas Takalo and Andreas Wagener), CESifo Working Paper No. 6808, 2017.
“Immigration and Electoral Support for the Far Left and the Far Right.” (with Anthony Edo, Yvonne Giesing, Jonathan Öztunc), ifo Working Paper No. 244, 2017.
“Pocketbook Voting, Social Preferences, and Expressive Motives in Referenda.” (with Johannes Meya and Robert Schwager), Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research Paper No. 312, 2017.
“International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model.” (with Martin D. Munk, and Till Nikolka), CESifo Working Paper No. 6377, 2017.
“Bitterness in Life and Attitudes Towards Immigration.” (with Max Steinhardt), CESifo Working Paper No. 5611, 2015
“International Migration of Couples” (with Martin Junge and Martin D. Munk), NORFACE Migration DP 18-2013.
“Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrants from a Welfare State” (with Ilpo Kauppinen), NORFACE Migration DP No. 9-2012.
Publications in Finnish:
Mitä opettaa koulun taloustiedossa? Kansantaloustieteilijän näkökulma. In “Kohti tulevaa menneisyyttä. Historiallis-yhteiskunnallinen kasvatus uudella vuosituhannella”. Ed. Jan Löfström. PS-Kustannus. Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy, Jyväskylä 2002.
Verokilpailu ja Suomen verojärjestelmä. WSOY, Helsinki 2003. Editor, together with Reino Hjerppe, Seppo Kari and Jaakko Kiander.
Chapters in Verokilpailu ja Suomen verojärjestelmä:
9 Johdanto. Suomen verojärjestelmän ja julkisen talouden haasteet lähivuosina. Together with Reino Hjerppe, Seppo Kari and Jaakko Kiander. Koulutus, verotus ja työvoiman liikkuvuus. Kansainvälinen pääomaverotus, verokilpailu ja verokoordinointi Euroopan unionissa. Together with Seppo Kari.
Mitä kasvot kertovat? In ”Mielijouhteita kielestä – Jyväskylän Lyseo 150- vuotisjuhlakirja”. Ed. Raili Kivelä. Gummerus, Jyväskylä 2008.
Pörssikurssien kehitys Suomessa 1896 - 1929: Uudet indeksisarjat ja niiden tulkinta. (This report presents a new stock index for Helsinki Stock Exchange and time before it for years 1896-1929) Bank of Finland Discussion paper 25/1996.
Publication in Swedish:
Själviska och framåtblickande väljare – Hur många röster köpte maxtaxan i barnomsorgen? Ekonomisk Debatt 2/2009, 6-12. (With Mikael Elinder and Henrik Jordahl)
Selected Media Coverage:
Research featured in the Economist: Immigrants and welfare. July 12th, 2014, p. 37 A farewell to arms. September 10th, 2011 The politics of beauty. January 20th, 2007, p. 65
“The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It.” Selected media coverage in 2017: The Atlantic, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Fox News, Daily Mail, The Sun, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, El Mundo, El Espagnol, La Vanguardia.
Other media coverage: The New York Times, Huffington Post, Newsweek, der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Reuters, Helsingin Sanomat, Svenska Dagbladet.
Television and radio interviews in Australia, Finland, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Organizing Conferences and Workshops:
1. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Copenhagen, March 2001. 2. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Paris, April 2002. 3. Organizer (with Svend Hougaard Jensen and Peter Birch Sørensen) of conference on Social Security, Labour Supply and Demographic Change, Copenhagen, June 27-28, 2003. 4. Organizer (with Marko Köthenbürger and Andreas Wagener) of CEBR-CESifo conference on Pension Reform, Copenhagen, June 11-12, 2005. 5. Organizer (with Erkki Koskela) of HECER Workshop on Fiscal Federalism, Helsinki, November 18-19, 2005.
10 6. Organizer (with Tapio Palokangas) of HECER Workshop on Political Economy, Helsinki, March 13-14, 2009. 7. Member of the program committee of the CESifo Public Sector Economics Area Conference, Munich, April 24-26, 2009. 8. Organizer (with Mika Widgrén) of the Venice Summer Institute conference: The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, Venice, July 6-7, 2009. 9. Member of the program committee of the CESifo Public Sector Economics Area Conference, Munich, April 9-11, 2010. 10. Organizer (with Vesa Kanniainen) of the Venice Summer Institute conference: Ethics and Economics, Venice, July 19-20, 2010. 11. Member of the program committee of the IIPF Annual Congress, Uppsala, August 23-26, 2010. 12. Organizer (with Niku Määttänen) of CESifo Economic Studies Conference on Housing Taxation and Regulation, Munich, November 19-20, 2010. 13. Member of the program committee of the CESifo Public Sector Economics Area Conference, Munich, April 8-10, 2011. 14. Member of the program committee of the 2nd TEMPO Conference on International Migration, Vienna, November 10-11, 2011. 15. Organizer (with Gabriel Felbermayr, Helmut Rainer and Ludger Woessmann) of 1st CEMIR conference on International Migration, Munich, December 14-15, 2012. 16. Member of the program committee of the 4th TEMPO Conference on International Migration, Nottingham, September 57, 2013. 17. Organizer (with Gabriel Felbermayr, Helmut Rainer and Ludger Woessmann) of Junior Economist Workshop on Migration Research, Munich, October 18-19, 2013. 18. Member of the program committee of the IIPF Annual Congress, Lugano, August 2014. 19. Organizer (with Giovanni Peri) CEMIR and UC Davis Workshop on Advances in Migration Research, Davis, CA, May 2015. 20. Organizer (with Till Nikolka) of CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on Migration Research, Munich, May 2015. 21. Co-chair of the Scientific Committee of the IIPF Annual Congress, Dublin, August 2015. 22. Organizer (with Till Nikolka) of CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on Migration Research, Munich, June 2016. 23. Organizer (with Vesa Kanniainen) of Venice Summer Institute conference: The Economics of Peace and War, Venice, July 2016. 24. Member of the program committee, Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP2016), September 2016. 25. Organizer (with Yvonne Giesing and Till Nikolka) of CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on Migration Research, Munich, June 2017.
Presentations in conferences and workshops:
1. International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Córdoba, Argentina, August 1998. 2. Fiscal Competition and Federalism in Europe, Mannheim, June 1999. 3. International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Moscow, August 1999. 4. Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Oxford, March 2000. 5. International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Seville, August 2000. 6. Canadian Public Economics Study Group Meeting, Vancouver, May-June 2000. 7. ENTER Jamboree, Mannheim, February 2001. 8. Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Copenhagen, March 2001. 9. European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Paris, April 2001. 10. Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Durham, April 2001. 11. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Linz, August 2001. 12. CEPR/EPRU Workshop ”Dynamic Aspects of Public Expenditure”, Copenhagen, September 2001. 13. Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2002. 14. European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting” Belgirate, Italy, April 2002. 15. Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Paris, April 2002. 16. Annual Conference of the European Society of Population Economics, Bilbao, Spain, June 2002 17. European Economic Association annual meeting, Venice, August 2002.
11 18. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Helsinki, August 2002. 19. Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, September 2002. 20. Econometric Society European Meeting, Stockholm, August 2003. 21. European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark, April 2003. 22. Conference on Social Security, Labour Supply and Demographic Change, Copenhagen, June 2003. 23. European Economic Association annual meeting, Stockholm, August 2003. 24. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Prague, August 2003. 25. CESifo Conference: Migration and the Welfare State, Munich, November 2003. 26. Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, March 2004. 27. European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Berlin, April 2004. 28. Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Warsaw, April 2004. 29. RTN Workshop “Financing Retirement in Europe”, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, May 2004. 30. CESifo Public Economics Area Conference, Munich, May 2004. 31. Public Economic Theory Meeting, Beijing, August 2004. 32. European Association of Labour Economists meeting, Lisbon, September 2004. 33. Conference on Advanced Perspectives of Migration and Mobility, ZEI, Bonn, September 2004. 34. Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2005. 35. Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Mariehamn, February 2005. 36. Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March 2005. 37. CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, April 2005. 38. CEBR-CESifo conference on Pension Reform, Copenhagen, June 2005. 39. Conference on policy competition and coordination, Utrecht, June 2005. 40. Public Economic Theory Meeting, Marseille, June 2005. 41. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Jeju Island in South Korea, August 2005. 42. IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM2), Chicago, September 2005. 43. Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Helsinki, February 2006. 44. CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, April 2006. 45. Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology research seminar, Reykholt, Iceland, May 2006. 46. CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, Munich, May 2006. 47. Public Economic Theory Meeting, Hanoi, August 2006. 48. International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Paphos, Cyprus, August 2006. 49. Nordic Workshop on Tax Policy and Public Economics, Bergen, November 2006. 50. Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Lappeenranta, February 2007. 51. World Meeting of the Public Choice Societies, Amsterdam, March 2007. 52. CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, April 2007. 53. CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, Munich, May 2007. 54. Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy, Silvaplana, Switzerland, July 2007. 55. European Economic Association annual meeting, Budapest, August 2007. 56. Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Jyväskylä, February 2008. 57. European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Jena, March 2008. 58. CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, April 2008. 59. CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, Munich, May 2008. 60. IFN Workshop on Privatization, Vaxholm, Sweden, June 2008. 61. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Maastricht, August 2008. 62. European Economic Association annual meeting, Milan, August 2008. 63. IZA Workshop: The Economics of Labor Income Taxation, Bonn, September 2008. 64. Nordic Workshop on Tax Policy and Public Economics, Uppsala, October 2008. 65. CESifo/Leibniz Conference on "Reform of the Welfare State", Munich, November 2008. 66. Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Turku, February 2009. 67. HECER Workshop on Political Economy, Helsinki, March 2009. 68. CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, April 2009. 69. CESifo Employment and Social Protection Area Conference, Munich, May 2009. 70. Taxation, Public Provision and the Future of the Nordic Welfare Model, Helsinki, June 2009. 71. Brunel Symposium on Party and Electoral Competition, Uxbridge (London), June 2009.
12 72. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Cape Town, August 2009. 73. Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Tampere, February 2010. 74. CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, April 2010. 75. Workshop on Globalization, Education and Taxation, Konstanz, May 2010. 76. CESifo Employment and Social Protection Area Conference, Munich, May 2010. 77. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Uppsala, August 2010. 78. First TEMPO Conference on International Migration, Dublin, October 2010. 79. Midwest Political Science Association annual conference, Chicago, March-April 2011. 80. NORFACE conference Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge, London, April 2011. 81. CESifo Employment and Social Protection Area Conference, Munich, May 2011. 82. V Tax Day of Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Economics, Munich, July 2011. 83. Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy, Pontresina, Switzerland, July 2011. 84. Econometric Society European Meeting, Oslo, August 2011. 85. Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics, Munich, November 2011. 86. Econometric Society Latin American Meeting, Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 2011. 87. World Meeting of the Public Choice Societies, Miami, March 2012. 88. CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, April 2012. 89. CESifo Employment and Social Protection Area Conference, Munich, April 2012. 90. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Dresden, August 2012. 91. Econometric Society European Meeting, Malaga, August 2012. 92. Oslo Fiscal Studies Workshop on Taxation of Inheritance and Wealth, Oslo, March 2013. 93. Norface Conference "Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers", London, April 2013. 94. CESifo Employment and Social Protection Area Conference, Munich, May 2013. 95. Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Aix-en-Provence, June 2013. 96. Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy, Pontresina, July 2013. 97. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Catania, Italy, August 2013. 98. European Economic Association annual meeting, August 2013. 99. Munich-Sydney-Conference on the Law and Economics of Taxation, Munich, September 2013. 100. 5th Norface Migration Conference, Berlin, November 2013. 101. CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, April 2014. 102. CESifo Employment and Social Protection Area Conference, Munich, May 2014. 103. International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Lugano, August 2014. 104. European Economic Association annual meeting, Toulouse, August 2014. 105. VATT Workshop, Helsinki, September 2014. 106. Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Conference, Hamburg, September 2014. 107. Immigration in OECD Countries, OECD, Paris, December 2014. 108. Ifo Conference Migration and the Welfare State: Why is America Different from Europe? Munich, December 2014. 109. UCFS Workshop at Krusenberg Herrgård, Sweden, March 2015. 110. CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, Munich, April 2015. 111. CEMIR and UC Davis Workshop on Advances in Migration Research, Davis, CA, USA, May 2015. 112. CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, Munich, May 2015. 113. 29th ESPE Conference, Izmir, Turkey, June 2015. 114. Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy 2015, Pontresina, Switzerland, July 2015. 115. 71st IIPF Annual Congress, Dublin, Ireland, August 2015. 116. Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Münster, Germany, September 2015. 117. Condorcet Workshop, Rennes, France, December 2015. 118. CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, Munich, April 2016. 119. 25th Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy, Pontresina, Switzerland, July 2016. 120. 72nd IIPF Annual Congress, Lake Tahoe, USA, August 2016. 121. Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Augsburg, Germany, September 2016. 122. Migration and the European Welfare States, Malmö, Sweden, October 2016. 123. 6th Annual International Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries, Paris, December 2016. 124. EPCS, European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, April 2017.
13 125. CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, Munich, May 2017. 126. 18th annual Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Paris, July 2017. 127. Max-Planck-Institute, Munich, July 2017. 128. 2017 Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy, Pontresina, Switzerland, July 2017. 129. 73rd Annual Congress of IIPF, Tokyo, Japan, August 2017. 130. Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University, Sweden, August 2018. 131. 7th Annual Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries, Paris, December 2017.
Invited seminars: 1. Queen's University, April 2000. 2. Université du Québec à Montréal, April 2000. 3. CEBR, May 2000. 4. CEBR, November 2000. 5. CES, Munich, June 2001. 6. CEBR, December 2001. 7. Copenhagen Business School, October 2002. 8. CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October 2002. 9. University of Helsinki, February 2003. 10. Uppsala University, November 2003. 11. University of Vienna and Institute for Advanced Studies jointly, January 2004. 12. IZA, Bonn, February 2004. 13. EPRU, University of Copenhagen, March 2004. 14. Goettingen University, May 2004. 15. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, June 2004 16. University of Mainz, June 2004. 17. WZB, Berlin, September 2004. 18. Tilburg University, November 2004. 19. DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Brussels, January 2005. 20. University of Dortmund, April 2005 21. WZB Berlin, January 2006. 22. CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, March 2006. 23. ETLA (Research Institute of the Finnish Economy), March 2006. 24. The Labour Institute for Economic Research, March 2006. 25. VATT (Government Institute for Economic Research), May 2006. 26. University of Helsinki, Department of Political Science, September 2006. 27. University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, September 2006. 28. Bocconi University, Milan, December 2006. 29. Finnish Centre for Pensions, Helsinki, March 2007. 30. ETH Zürich, April 2007. 31. KU Leuven, Leuven, October 2007. 32. University of Hannover, October 2007. 33. University of Dresden, October 2007. 34. Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, October 2007. 35. IFN (Research Institute of Industrial Economics), Stockholm, November 2007. (2 talks) 36. Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, February 2008. 37. University of Vienna and Institute for Advanced Studies jointly, April 2008. 38. Umeå University, April 2008. 39. Uppsala University, April 2008. 40. Goettingen University, May 2008. 41. Public Choice Research Centre, Turku, September 2008. 42. IFN (Research Institute of Industrial Economics), Stockholm, December 2008. 43. VATT (Government Institute for Economic Research), February 2009. 44. Public Choice Research Centre, Turku, April 2009. 45. University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, May 2009. 46. Brunel University, Uxbridge (London), June 2009. 47. Ratio Institute, Stockholm, September 2009. 48. Bocconi University, Milan, November 2009. 49. Goettingen University, May 2010. 50. University of Marburg, June 2010. 51. Stockholm University, April 2011.
14 52. Bank of Finland, June 2011. 53. Cambridge University, December 2011. 54. Columbia, February 2012. 55. Fordram University, February 2012. 56. Cornell, February 2012. 57. George Mason University, February 2012. 58. Princeton (Department of Psychology), March 2012. 59. Harvard (Public Economics and Fiscal Policy Seminar) ), March 2012. 60. Sloan, MIT (lunch seminar), March 2012. 61. Mannheim University, April 2012. 62. Hamburg University, June 2012. 63. VATT (Government Institute for Economic Research), September 2012. 64. Aboa Centre for Economics, Turku, March 2013. 65. Solvay, Université Libre de Bruxelles, March 2013. 66. University of Jena, April 2013. 67. CReAM, UCL, London, February 2014. 68. Saïd Business School, Oxford University, February 2014. 69. The Labour Institute for Economic Research, October 2014. 70. VATT (Government Institute for Economic Research), October 2014. 71. Athens University of Economics & Business, October 2014. 72. University of Hannover, December 2014. 73. University of Salzburg, March 2015. 74. University of California, Davis, May 2015. 75. SOFI, Stockholm University, September 2015. 76. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva, October 2015. 77. University of Vienna, October 2015. 78. Università Cattolica di Milano, February 2016. 79. University of Bayreuth, March 2016. 80. Brunel University, January 2017. 81. Exeter University, January 2017. 82. Hitotsubashi University, August 2017. 83. University of Tsukuba, August 2017.
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