The Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues was founded in 2002 by representatives of the civil society coming from the academic and business world and willing to establish an efficient platform to investigate fiscal and taxation questions. As a matter of fact, taxation may be considered as a many-faceted issue and existing studies are mostly incomplete if not biased. The need to explore systematically and completely the question was obvious to IREF’s founding members. It can be asserted that this need has also an emergency aspect. Tax studies can no longer ignore the globalisation process and the consequences of this evolution on the magnitude of tax competition.
Nowadays IREF’s research interests are numerous and range from taxation to education, from public spending to housing, from health care to retirement. Policy makers are currently under the strain of two opposite forces: centralisation and harmonization on one hand, devolution and competition and globalization on the other hand. Eager to cross knowledge from economics, statistics, law studies and politics, IREF seeks to create a starting place for thoughts and proposals about various economic policies. In order to achieve its goals, IREF is editing books, reports and academic studies. IREF’s experts are covering the European current events related to taxation and economic policy and you can find every week on our website their comments and analysis.
Board of Directors
Jean-Philippe Delsol (Chairman) – Delsol Avocats, Lyon and Paris
Gilles Lamarque – Entrepreneur
Prince Michael von Liechtenstein – President of the Board of Directors of Industrie- und Finanzkontor, Liechtenstein
Scientific Committee
Enrico Colombatto (Chair) – Professor Emeritus of economics at the Università di Torino
Jean-Philippe Delsol – Delsol Avocats, Lyon and Paris
François Facchini – Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
† Jacques Garello – Professor (Emeritus) at the Aix-Marseille Université
Pierre Garello – Aix-Marseille Université
Karl-Friedrich Israel – Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers
Nathalie Janson – NEOMA Business School, Mont-Saint-Aignan
Gilles Lamarque – Entrepreneur
Michael von Liechtenstein – Industrie- und Finanzkontor, Liechtenstein
Alain Mathieu – Contribuables Associés
Jiri Schwarz – Anglo–American University, Prague
Agnieskzka Słomka-Gołębiowska – Warsaw University
Arnauld Le Vaillant de Charny – President of Association Libéraux.org
IREF Fellows
Sergio Beraldo, University of Naples Federico II
Karl-Friedrich Israel, Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers
Silviya Lechner, Anglo-American University, Prague
Bob Lyddon, Lyddon Consulting
Luca Martina, Banca Patrimoni Sella & C.
Mohamed Moutii, Independent Scholar
Samuele Murtinu, Utrecht University School of Economics
Francesco Ramella, Independent Scholar
Aleš Rod, Center for Economic and Market Analyses, Prague
David Stadelmann, University of Bayreuth
Claudia Zeller, Independent Scholar
Managing Director France
Nicolas Lecaussin
