Irish Public Economics Workshop

IPEW25 Overview

The second Irish Public Economics Workshop will be held in the Central Bank of Ireland on September 1st and 2nd, 2025. We are grateful to the Central Bank of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin Department of Economics, and the UCD School of Economics for their support.


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The Central Bank of Ireland

Monday, September 1st

08:30 Registration and Welcome

Join us for IPEW2025 in the Central Bank of Ireland on North Wall Quay in Dublin.


For security reasons, advanced registration is required and ID will be checked at entry.


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09:00-10:30 Behavioural Reponses

  • Carol Newman (TCD): Behavioural responses to unenforced rules: The puzzling case of South Africa’s preferential procurement policy
  • Luca Salvadori (UAB): Wealth Tax Enforcement: The Role of Tax and Institutional Design
  • Johannes Scheuerer (Skatteforsk)Tax noncompliance penalties: Evidence, optimality


10:30-11:00 Coffee Break


11:00-12:30 Resilience

  • Elena Patel (Utah): Inducing Labor: the Impact of Health Insurance Access on Maternal Labor Supply in the United States
  • Jonathan Cribb (IFS): Unpacking Income Inequality: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison over Thirty Years
  • Joao Pereira dos Santos (ISEG)Sailing through Troubled Waters: Evidence from the APOIAR Program


12:30-13:30 Lunch


13:30-14:30 Macro Public Finance

  • Radek Sauer (Central Bank of Ireland): The Intangible Economy
  • Roberto Billi (Sveriges Riksbank): Inflation, Fiscal Rules and Cognitive Discounting


14:30-15:00 Coffee Break


15:00-16:45 Irish Frontiers

  • Yvonne Hayden (Revenue): Corporation Tax: An Economic Analysis of Companies with No Tax Liability 
  • Matija Lozej (CBI): Delivering public investment efficiently: If possible, avoid delays
  • Niall Conroy (IFAC): Ireland’s Infrastructure Demands
  • Joao Magro (CBI): Deal-by-deal compensation and portfolio diversification


16:45-17:00 Coffee Break


17:00-18:15 Policy Panel


How Research Can Shape and Support Public Policy: Best Practices for Academics


Details TBC





18:15 Drinks



19:00 Dinner for organizers and presenters


Tuesday, September 2nd

09:00-10:30 Corruption

  • Zongyuan Li (Galway): Under the radar: The role of subsidiaries in concealing political favors in Chinese land transactions
  • Lubani Nondo (DCU): The Effect of Corruption on Innovation in the EU
  • Robert Gillanders (DCU): The Power of African Ingenuity: Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Counter-Stereotypes on Performance in Burkina Faso


10:30-11:00 Coffee Break


11:00-12:30 Profit Shifting

  • Carolina Nunes (UCD): Investment tax incentives and growth: Evidence from Portugal
  • Usama Jamal (Manchester): Tax Rules and Capital Reallocation: Real Effects of Anti-Tax Avoidance Policies
  • Ron Davies (UCD): Hidden Profits, Lost Jobs? Tax Havens and Employment Decisions


12:30-13:30 Lunch


13:30-15:00 Keynote Lecture


We are delighted that Prof Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich) will deliver the IPEW Keynote Lecture.

Dina Pomeranz is the UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Zurich. Her researchocuses on public policies in developing countries, in particular in the areas of taxation, public procurement, firm development and the environment. Prior to joining the University of Zurich, she was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, where she taught entrepreneurship for MBA students, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT's Poverty Action Lab.


Her work has been published in academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the Journal of Economic Development and the Journal of Human Resources. In 2017, she was awarded one of the prestigious grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for her research on tax evasion and the role of firm networks.



15:00-15:30 Coffee Break


15:30-16:30 Optimal Taxation

  • Enda Hargaden (UCD): Optimal Taxation of Network Goods
  • Yuki Yao (Kent): Robust bounds on optimal tax progressivity


‌16:30 Concluding Remarks

Goal of IPEW

IPEW’s goal is to connect researchers working in public economics and public policy, and to strengthen cross-institutional work on public economics in Ireland by bringing together academia, public administration, institutional research, and the private sector


Conference Organisers

Enda Hargaden (UCD), Tara McIndoe-Calder (CBI), Barra Roantree (TCD), Nora Strecker (UCD)

info@publiceconomics.ie


We are very grateful to our funders, supporters, and host: