Department of Economics and Finance

Current positions
Lecturer (Senior Lecturer from Oct 2008), University of Durham
Research Affiliate, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

D.Phil. (Ph.D.)
University of Oxford, 1999, "Endogenous taxation in a dynamic economy"

Major fields
political economy, optimal taxation and public economics, dynamic economies with consumer heterogeneity, endogenous firm objectives, environmental economics

Publications
(2007) Optimal dynamic labour taxation (with Parantap Basu), Macroeconomic Dynamics;
(2007) Political Institutions and economic growth (with Laura Marsiliani), Economics of Governance;
(2006) The role of government commitment for environmental policy and capital movements (with Laura Marsiliani), Topics in Macroeconomics;
(2004) Optimal dynamic taxation with indivisible labour (with Parantap Basu and Laura Marsiliani), Manchester School;
(2003) Endogenous firm objectives (with Erkan Yalcin), Journal of Public Economic Theory;
(2002) Political institutions and redistribution, In: D.K. Levine, W. Zame, L. Ausubel, P-A. Chiappori, B. Ellickson, A. Rubinstein and L. Samuelson (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society: Economic Theory;
(2000) Time inconsistency in environmental policy (with Laura Marsiliani), Economic Journal;
(1999) Optimal dynamic taxation, In: S.B. Dahiya (Ed.), The Current State of Economic Science;
(1998) Tax evasion as a disciplinary mechanism for fiscal policy, In: H. Shibata and T. Ihori (Eds.), Welfare State, Public Investment and Growth;
(1996) Endogenous taxation: An overlapping generations approach, Economic Journal

RESEARCH

TEACHING

SEMINAR PROGRAMME IN DURHAM 2003-2007, 2007-2008

CONFERENCE ON DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF TAXATION AND PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

OTHER ACTIVITIES

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