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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:-
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.
Professor in Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
Fellow, Public Economics / Programme Director, Public Economics / RPN Member, Ageing and LongevityInstitute Professor in the Department of Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Professor, Department of Economics Bocconi University; ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin
Professor University Of Nottingham
Research Fellow Iiep-uba; Professorial Research Fellow London School Of Economics And Political Science; Professor Co-Director World Inequality Lab
Cowles Professor of Economics Yale University
Professor of Economics Sciences Po Paris
Professor in the Department of Economics University Of Namur
Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
Fellow, Development Economics / Fellow, Organizational Economics / Fellow, Public Economics / RPN Member, Inequality and the Role of FirmsTheodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Princeton University
President Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF); Professor of Economics University Of Modena And Reggio Emilia
School Professor of Economics and Political Science and the W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
Assistant Professor of Economics Columbia University
Professor of Economics University Of Cologne
Professor of Economics University Of Bologna
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography Harvard University
Co-Director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy University College London
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)
Associate Professor Paris School of Economics (PSE); Director The Institute for Public Policy (IPP)
Directeur de Recherches, CNRS Aix Marseille School Of Economics
Senior Research Fellow Nuffield College; Professor of Economics, Emeritus University Of Oxford
Professor of Economics HEC Lausanne
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
Full Professor and Research Chair in Economics Universidad Carlos Iii De Madrid
Professor in the Department of Economics Sciences Po Paris
Professor of Environmental Economics Ca' Foscari University Of Venice; Strategic Board Member EuroMediterranean Center on Climate change
Professor of Economics and Political Science and Co-Director of Columbia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Columbia University
Professor of Economics Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics Harvard University
Professor in Economics in the Department of Economics University College London
Professor of Public Finance and Social Policy Freie Universität Berlin
Deputy Research Director Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Professor of Economics at the School of Economics University Of Bristol
Research Faculty and Professor of Economics Toulouse School Of Economics
Professor Toulouse School Of Economics
Researcher and Deputy Director Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies; Professor of Labour Economics National University of La Plata; Joint Appointment as a Professor of Economics University Of Nottingham
Professor of Economics University Of Nottingham
Consultant Federal Reserve Board of Minneapolis; Faculty Research Fellow National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER); Thomas Sargent Professor University Of Minnesota
Full Professor in Mathematical Economics Université Libre De Bruxelles
Director of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, Professor of Business Taxation, Professorial Fellow at Oriel College University Of Oxford
Nicholas Kaldor Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science; Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History Northwestern University
Co-Director Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL); Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); President Paris School of Economics (PSE)
Fellow, Public Economics / Fellow, Development Economics / Fellow, Climate Change and the Environment / Distinguished Fellow / Advisory Group MemberProfessor and Dean of the Tiomkin School of Economics Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya; Head of the Aaron Economic Policy Institute Reichman University; Emeritus Professor for the Eitan Berglas School of Economics Tel Aviv University
Research Associate Paris School of Economics (PSE); Professor of Economics University Paris-Dauphine, PSL
Professor and Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society University Of Zurich
Silver Professor of Economics New York University
Professor of Economics and Global Health Duke University
Professor of Economics University Of Konstanz
Co-director at the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics University Of Cambridge
Associate Director Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Associate Professor Queen Mary University Of London
Head of the Department of Social and Political Science and Professor of Economics Bocconi University
Researcher Center For Research In Economics And Statistics; Professor of Economics Paris School of Economics (PSE); Professor of Economics University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
PSE Chaired Professor Paris Jourdan Economics Unit
Professor of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy Eth Zurich; Co-Director Kof Swiss Economic Institute
Director of the Development Economics Programme, STICERD; Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
Professor Emeritus & Research Professor University of California, San Diego
Sumner T. White Professor at the Economics Department Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Professor of Economics, CNRS/Paris School of Economics Deputy Director, Institut des Politiques Publiques CNRS and Paris School of Economics
Research Director Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Professor, Department of Economics University Of Manchester
Chair for Economic Policy, Department of Economics University Of Mannheim
Research Professor Barcelona School Of Economics; Professor of Economics Center For Monetary And Financial Studies (CEMFI)
Full Professor Paris School of Economics (PSE)
Professor of Economics Institute For International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University
Professor of Economics University Of Warwick
Professor University Of Gothenburg
Professor of Economics Tilburg University
Managing Editor Economic Policy; Head of Department and Professor of Economics European University Institute; Professor of Economics University Of Bologna
Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
Director of the Research Programme of Development Economics and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Princeton University
Professor of Economics and Business Professor of Economics University Of Copenhagen
Professor em., Public Finance University Of St Gallen
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Princeton University
Professor of Environmental Economics and Biosecurity in the School of Biosciences and the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences University Of Melbourne
Director Max Planck Institute For Tax Law And Public Finance
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs Columbia University
Emeritus Professor Center For Research In Economics And Statistics; Researcher Collège De France; Visiting Professor Uppsala University
Professor of Economics and Director of Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) University Of Copenhagen
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics and Finance (Secondary) University Of Pennsylvania
Savings Banks Foundations and Swedbank Chair in Macroeconomics, Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg chair in Economics Institute For International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University; Centennial Professor London School Of Economics And Political Science
Professor of Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School; Scientific Director Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies Bocconi University
Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics HEC Lausanne
Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
William Haber Chaired Professor of Economics Hebrew University Of Jerusalem; Chaired Professor in the Department of Economics University Of Warwick
Professor of Economics and Public Policy University Of Oxford
Professor in Economics University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Professor University Of Copenhagen
Fellow, Public Economics / RPN Member, Household FinanceProfessor of Economics University College London
Professor Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University
Professor of Economics University Of Warwick
Professor of Economics Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Professor of Economics and Public Policy Queen Mary University Of London; Joint Managing Editor of The Economic Journal Royal Economic Society
Professor of Economics Imperial College London; Economist in the Climate Change and Sustainability Research Programme International Finance Corporation
Intesa Sanpaolo Chair Collegio Carlo Alberto; Honorary Professor of Economics University Of Essex; Professor of Economics University Of Turin
Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics Yale University
Professor of Economics Imperial College London, Business School
The Gary S. Becker Distinguished Service Professor of Economics in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics University Of Chicago
Professor of Political Science and Economics, Director of the Research Unit Pericles in the Baffi Carefin Center Bocconi University
Associate Professor London School Of Economics And Political Science
Emeritus Professor and Director of The Energy Policy Research Group University Of Cambridge
Lecturer at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management Université Libre De Bruxelles
Guest Professor Linnaeus University; Professor of Economics at IIES Stockholm University
Professor of Economics National University Of Singapore
Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of Economics Cornell University
Assistant Professor of Economics Stanford University
Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University
Co-director, World Inequality Lab & World Inequality Database; Professor of Economics Paris School of Economics (PSE)
Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
Assistant Professor University Of Zurich
Professor of Economics Imperial College London, Business School; Fellow Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Adjunct Professor, Centre for Health Economics Monash University
Research Director Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Professor of Economics University College London
Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
Researcher and Permanent Member Center For Research In Economics And Statistics; Professor of Economics Ecole Polytechnique
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
Professorial Research Fellow University College London; Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics University Of Pennsylvania
Senior Research Fellow Max Planck Institute For Research On Collective Goods; Professor of Economics and Management University Of Cologne
Inaugural Visiting Scholar National Audit Office; Head of School and Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences University Of Nottingham
UBS Foundation Professor of Economics of Institutions and Chairman of the Department of Economics University Of Zurich
Professor of Economics and Applied Econometrics University Of Basel
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
Professor of Economics Stockholm University
Professor of Economics Stockholm University
Professor of Economics University Of Cologne
Professor of Economics University Of Bristol
Professor in Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
Fellow, Public Economics / Programme Director, Public Economics / RPN Member, Ageing and LongevityFounder of the Social Economics Lab; Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy Harvard University
Senior Lecturer University Of Edinburgh
Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Director and Professor of Economics Institute For International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University
Professor of Economics University Of Mannheim
Professor of Financial Economics University Of Warwick
Professor of Economics Toulouse School Of Economics
Affiliated Researcher Professor of Economics and Public Policy Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
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
Professor Economics (part-time) University Of Copenhagen; Professor of Economics and Director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics University Of Vienna
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School University Of Pennsylvania
Professor of Economics Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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
Professor of Economics Central European University
Professor of Economics and Professor of Public Policy University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy London School Of Economics And Political Science
Professor of Economics Monash University
Professor of Economics Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL; Professor of Economics Professor of Economics University Of California, Berkeley
Professor of Economics Associate Professor of Economics Cunef University
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
Assistant Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science
Economist in the Economics and Law Research Department Bank Of Italy; Member of the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality Bocconi University
Deutsches Institut Für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin); Professor for Public Economics
Visiting Assistant Professor Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF); Assistant Professor of Economics at the Yale School Of Management Yale University
Lars Peter Hansen Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Utah State University
Professor of Applied Microeconomics University Of Bonn
Assistant Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences Bocconi University
Research Fellow at CLEAN - Baffi-Carefin Centre Research Fellow at CLEAN - Baffi-Carefin Centre Bocconi University; Assistant Professor of Economics Senior Assistant Professor of Economics University Of Milano Bicocca
Research Professor Center For Monetary And Financial Studies (CEMFI); Affiliated Professor ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona School of Economics
Associate Professor of Economics Stockholm School Of Economics
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University Of Zurich
Visiting scholar Princeton University; Assistant Professor Tel Aviv University
Professor of Economics University Of Hohenheim
Assistant Professor in the Economics Department Bocconi University
Full Professor of Applied Microeconomics University Of Konstanz
Senior Researcher CREST - ENSAE
Research Director of the Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries (TaxDev) Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Professor in the Department of Economics University College London
Assistant Professor of Economics Bocconi University
CNRS Associate Professor École Normale Supérieure De Lyon; CNRS Research Associate Professor GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Associate Professor in the Department of Economics Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Deputy Director at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education Ifo Institute
Faculty Member Swiss Finance Institute; Associate Professor of Economics
Deputy Research Director Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Senior Researcher Kof Swiss Economic Institute
Wealth Distribution Coordinator at WID.world and Assistant Professor of Financial Economics Imperial College London, Business School
Research Fellow Tinbergen Institute; Associate Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics University Of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business New York University
Associate Professor of Economics Associate Professor of Economics Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University
Assistant Professor of Economics Hertie School of Governance
Assistant Professor of Economics Uclouvain
Assistant Professor Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Economics Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore
Associate Professor University College London
Professor University Of Cambridge
Visiting Senior Fellow at STICERD London School Of Economics And Political Science; Senior Lecturer of Economics (Associate Professor) Queen Mary University Of London
Assistant Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Professor of Economics University Of St Gallen
Professor of Economics Boston University
Professor of Economics Ludwig Maximilian University Of Munich
Research Fellow Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Assistant Professor London School Of Economics And Political Science
Senior Lecturer Queen Mary University Of London
Faculty Research Fellow Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics Yale University
Reader in Economics University Of Manchester
Senior Economist Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago; Associate Faculty Toulouse School Of Economics
5 Dec 2025 - 10 Dec 2025 in Paris, France
23 Jun 2025 - 24 Jun 2025 in Milan, Italy
12 Jun 2025 - 13 Jun 2025 in Berlin, Germany
5 Dec 2025 - 10 Dec 2025 in Paris, France
The fourth edition of CEPR's annual flagship symposium will again bring together leading voices in European and global economics to discuss the most pressing issues facing the global economy. Academic presentations as well as policy panels and keynote lectures will be organised across a 6-day programme with several parallel streams.