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
Eudes Baufreton – Union nationale de la propriété immobilière
Prince Michael von Liechtenstein – President of the Board of Directors of Industrie- und Finanzkontor, Liechtenstein
Scientific Committee
Enrico Colombatto (Chair) – Former professor of economics at the Università di Torino
Eudes Baufreton – Union nationale de la propriété immobilière
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
Michael von Liechtenstein – Industrie- und Finanzkontor, Liechtenstein
Alain Mathieu – Contribuables Associés
Jiri Schwarz – Anglo–American University, Prague
Agnieskzka Słomka-Gołębiowska – Warsaw University
IREF Research Fellows
Sergio Beraldo, University of Naples Federico II
Patricia Commun, Université Cergy Paris
Anita De Franco, Politecnico di Milano
Hannes Gissurarson, University of Iceland
Andrew Glencross, Université de Lille
Karl-Friedrich Israel, Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers
Gordon Kerr, Cobden Partner
Silviya Lechner, Anglo-American University, Prague
Bob Lyddon, Lyddon Consulting
Mohamed Moutii, Independent Scholar
Samuele Murtinu, Utrecht University School of Economics
Francesco Ramella, Independent Scholar
Paata Sheshelidze, New Economic School, Tbilisi
David Stadelmann, University of Bayreuth
Miroslav Svoboda, Anglo-American University, Prague
Claudia Zeller, Independent Scholar
Managing Director France
Nicolas Lecaussin
