Publications:
Gavoille, N., & Zasova, A. (2023). What we pay in the shadows: Labor tax evasion, minimum wage hike and employment. Journal of Public Economics, 228, 105027.
Gavoille, N., & Zasova, A. (2023). Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: A back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis. Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(1), 372-402.
Gavoille, N., & Zasova, A. (2021). Foreign ownership and labor tax evasion: Evidence from Latvia. Economics Letters, 207, 110030.
Gavoille, N., & Hofer, K. (2021). Capital controls and electoral cycles. IMF Economic Review, 69, 275-324.
Gavoille, N. (2021). Pay for politicians and campaign spending: evidence from the French municipal elections. Public Choice, 188(3), 455-477.
Gavoille, N. (2018). Who are the ‘ghost’MPs? Evidence from the French parliament. European Journal of Political Economy, 53, 134-148.
Gavoille, N., & Verschelde, M. (2017). Electoral competition and political selection: An analysis of the activity of French deputies, 1958–2012. European Economic Review, 92, 180-195.
Padovano, F., & Gavoille, N. (2017). Legislative cycles in a semipresidential system. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 470-497.
Fiorino, N., Gavoille, N., & Padovano, F. (2015). Rewarding judicial independence: Evidence from the Italian constitutional court. International Review of Law and Economics, 43, 56-66.
Work in progress:
A short drop or a sudden stop? Trade shocks, sanctions, and firms' adjustment margins
Off the book, off the hook? COVID-19, employment, and labor tax evasion (with Anna Zasova & Janis Berzins)
The Revizor effect: firms, audits, and payroll tax evasion (with Anna Zasova)
Non-scientific writings
VoxEU column, Sanctions, trade shocks, and firms’ adjustment margins (2025) https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/sanctions-trade-shocks-and-firms-adjustment-margins
VoxEU column, Minimum wage policy and labour tax evasion (2023), with Anna Zasova https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/minimum-wage-policy-and-labour-tax-evasion
FREE Policy Brief, Detecting Labor Tax Evasion Using Administrative Data and Machine-Learning Techniques (2022), with Anna Zasova https://freepolicybriefs.org/2022/05/17/labor-tax-evasion/
FREE Policy Brief, Foreign-Owned Firms and Labor Tax Evasion in Latvia (2021), with Anna Zasova https://freepolicybriefs.org/2021/11/29/foreign-owned-firms-labor-tax-evasion/
FROGEE Policy Brief, Economics of Childbearing and Pronatalist Policies, contributor (2020) https://freepolicybriefs.org/2020/01/15/childbearing-pronatalist-policies/
FREE Policy Brief, Gender Gaps in Wage and Wealth: Evidence from Estonia (2019), https://freepolicybriefs.org/2019/11/18/gender-gaps-in-wages-and-wealth-evidence-from-estonia/
FREE Policy Brief, Electoral Competition and Political Selection (2016), https://freepolicybriefs.org/2016/01/18/electoral-competition-and-political-selection/
Reviewer
Journal of Public Economics
European Economic Review
European Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Comparative Economics
International Review of Law and Economics
Baltic Journal of Economics
Seminars/communications:
9th National Bank of Ukraine / National Bank of Poland Annual Research Conference, June 2025
Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics research seminar, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2025
7th Baltic Economic Association Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2025
European Public Choice Society meeting, Riga, Latvia, April 2025
CESEE Network workshop, Vienna, Austria, February 2025
6th Baltic Economic Association Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, June 2024
European Public Choice Society meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 2024
Seminar, Bank of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia, February 2024
F.R.E.E. Network retreat, Visby, Sweden, September 2023
SHADOW 2023 Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, September 2023
Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) conference, Philadelphia, May 2023
Applied Economics seminar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, January 2023
F.R.E.E. Network retreat, Warsaw, Poland, September 2022
European Economic Association Congress, Milan, August 2022
4th Baltic Economic Association Conference, Kaunas, Lithuania, June 2022
LAGV conference, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France (online), June 2022
IAAEU’s 14th Workshop on Labour Economics, University of Trier, Germany (online), April 2022
Seminar, Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine (online), January 2022
Confererence "New labour market developments in the context of digitalisation and social change", University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia (online), January 2022
10th Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research, Vilnius, Lithuania (online), December 2021
Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics research seminar, Stockholm, Sweden (online), December 2021
IESEG Business School economic seminar, Paris, France, (online), November 2021
National Bank of Ukraine Reseach Seminar, Kyiv, Ukraine, (online), October 2021
IZA Workshop "Thirty Years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: The Contribution of Labor Market Adjustment to Transition and Convergence”, Moscow, Russia (online), October 2021
European Association of Labor Economists Annual Conference, Padua, Italy (online), September 2021
SHADOW 2021 Conference, London, UK (online), September 2021
Free Network Annual Retreat, Stockholm, Sweden (online), September 2021
IZA workshop “Labor Market Institutions”, Paris, France (online), September 2021
3rd Baltic Economic Association Conference, Tartu, Estonia (online), June 2021
2nd Conference "Corruption, Tax Evasion and Institutions", Riga, Latvia (online), May 2021
Seminar, Bank of Latvia, Riga, Latvia (online), May 2021
ZEW Public Finance conference, Mannheim, Germany (online), May 2021
Seminar, Free University of Brussels (online), January 2021
F.R.E.E. Network retreat, Gdansk, Poland, September 2019
2nd Baltic Economic Association Conference, Riga, Latvia, June 2019
Seminar, CEFER/Bank of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, March 2019
Seminar, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, November 2018
Seminar, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France, June 2018
LAGV conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 2018
Inaugural conference of the Baltic Economic Association, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2018
European Public Choice Society meeting, Rome, Italy, April 2018
Workshop `Political Economy and Local Public Finance', Lille, France, October 2017
Public Economics at the Regional and Local Level (P.E.A.R.L) workshop 2017, Braga, Portugal, September 2017
F.R.E.E. Network retreat, Riga, Latvia, May 2017
European Public Choice Society meeting, Budapest, Hungary, April 2017
Annual meeting of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Nancy, France, June 2016
SITE seminar, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, April 2016
European Public Choice Society meeting, Friburg, Germany, April 2016
Workshop `From institutions matter to individuals matter', Rennes, France, December 2015
Workshop `Political Economy and Local Public Finance', Lille, France, October 2015
F.R.E.E. Network retreat, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2015
BICEPS seminar, Riga, Latvia, September 2015
Annual meeting of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Rennes, France, June 2015
Public Economics at the Regional and Local Level (P.E.A.R.L) workshop 2015, Torino, Italy, April 2015
European Public Choice Society meeting, Groningen, Netherlands, April 2015
Public Economics at the Regional and Local Level (P.E.A.R.L) seminar 2014, Rennes, France, October 2014
Annual meeting of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Lyon, France, June 2014
University of Leuven in Kortrijk seminar, Kortrijk, Belgium, May 2014
European Public Choice Society meeting, Cambridge, UK, April 2014
Workshop `Economic analysis of vote', Le Havre, France, March 2014
Public Choice Society meeting, Charleston, USA, March 2014
Seminar `Endogenizing state fragmentation', Rennes, France, May 2014
European Public Choice Society meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, April 2013
Conference of scientific popularization `30 min inside', Rennes, October 2012
European Public Choice Society meeting, Rennes, France, 2011
Service to the community
52nd Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, April 3-5, 2025, Riga. Organizer (220 participants)
5th Baltic Economic Conference, June 19-20, 2023, Riga. Organizer (80 participants)
2nd Conference "Corruption, Tax Evasion and Institutions", May 27-28, 2021, Riga Organizer (Online)
2nd Baltic Economic Conference, June 11-12, 2019, Riga. Organizer (60 participants)
Conference "Corruption, Tax Evasion and Institutions", May 11-13, 2017, Riga. Organizer (40 participants)
BICEPS/SSE Riga seminars, Organizer (2017-2024)
Editorial work
Baltic Journal of Economics, member of the Editorial Board (since 2017)
The Baltic Journal of Economics is an international open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality original and innovative economic research . It is the natural outlet for economic papers of specific relevance to the Baltic region, and more broadly to open economies in their transition or post-transition stage. The journal aims to stimulate dialogue between academics and policy makers within a broad range of economic fields