Macroeconomic and Policy Implications of Underground Economy and Tax Evasion

Workshop on "Macroeconomic and Policy Implications of Underground Economy and Tax Evasion"

Bocconi University, 7-8 June 2012
 

The workshop fosters scientific interactions among researchers interested in the underground economy, tax evasion, and fiscal policy from a macroeconomic perspective. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. The conference is funded by MIUR through PRIN 2008.

Topics    Theoretical and empirical models of the underground economy and tax evasion; theory of (optimal) taxation; fiscal policy and behavior of economic agents; tax evasion, underground economy in (dynamic) general equilibrium models; fiscal policy in open economies; underground economy from the demand side; experiments; economics of crime; statistical models in sector studies, alternative strategies and models for solving the hard-to-tax; methods for selecting taxpayers to audit.

Keynote Speakers
Alberto Alesina (Harvard University and IGIER)
Michele Bernasconi (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia and Advanced School of Economics, Venice)

Scientific Committee   Bruno Chiarini (Università di Napoli, Parthenope), Marco Maffezzoli (Università Bocconi and IGIER), Mauro Marè (Università della Tuscia), Benedetto Torrisi (Università di Catania).

Workshop Program: donwnload here.