Research

Publications in Refereed Journals

A game-theoretic analysis of international tax compliance (with P. Pieretti) 

Economic Modelling, 2024  


Credit card debt puzzle: Evidence from the euro area 

Economics Letters, 2024 


Technology adoption and specialized labor (with E. Carroni and M. Delogu)

International Economics, 2023   (link to BCL working paper)


The impact of tax and infrastructure competition on the profitability of local firms (with Y. Han and P. Pieretti) 

International Tax and Public Finance, 2023   (link to BCL working paper)


Borrowing constraints, own labour and homeownership (with P. Lindner, T. Y. Mathä, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

Applied Economics, 2023   (link to ECB working paper)


Tax competition and phantom FDI (with S. Zanaj)

Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2022   (link to DEM working paper)


Does eliminating international profit shifting increase tax revenue in high-tax countries? (with P. Pieretti) 

Economic Modelling, 2020


Tax havens compliance with international standards: a temporal perspective (with P. Pieretti and S. Zanaj

Review of International Economics, 2020


Tax treaties with developing countries and the allocation of taxing rights (with D. Paolini, P. Pistone, and M. Zagler)

European Journal of Law and Economics, 2016

 Working papers

Fiscal competition and two-way migration (with P. Pieretti and S. Zanaj)

BCL working paper 183, Central Bank of Luxembourg, 2024     (links to Delano and Paperjam featured articles)



Tax evasion and presumptive taxation methods. A case study in Italy: Sector studies

Working Papers CRENoS, Vol. 20, 2011

 Work in progress

Fiscal competition and bilateral migration 

with P. Pieretti, Andreas Sintos, and S. Zanaj

Tax competition and occupational choice

with P. Pieretti

Minimum corporate taxation

with S. Zanaj

 Policy publications

Consumer debt in Luxembourg and the euro area

SUERF Policy Brief | No. 828 | 21 Mar, 2024


Consumer debt in Luxembourg and the euro area: evidence from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey

BCL working paper 175, Central Bank of Luxembourg, 2023  

(links to Luxembourg Times, Paperjam, Delano, RTL infos, RTL Today and Luxemburger Wort featured articles)


The Luxembourg Household Finance and Consumption Survey: Results from the fourth wave in 2021 (with T. Y. Mathä, Ana Montes-Viñas, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

BCL working paper 176, Central Bank of Luxembourg, 2023    (links to Luxemburger Wort, Delano, Luxembourg Times and Tageblatt featured articles)


COVID-19 effects on income, consumption and savings: evidence from the Luxembourg household finance and consumption survey (with T. Y. Mathä, Ana Montes-Viñas, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

BCL Bulletin 2023/2, Analyse 3, 2023   (links to Tageblatt, Paperjam and Delano featured articles)


Do private wealth transfers help with home ownership? A first assessment for Luxembourg (with T. Y. Mathä, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

BCL working paper 174, Central Bank of Luxembourg, 2023   (links to Paperjam first and second featured articles)


How valuable are language skills in the Luxembourg labor market? (with T. Y. Mathä, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

BCL Bulletin 2022/1, Analyse 3, 2022


The Cross-border Household Finance and Consumption Survey: Results from the third wave (with Y. Chen, T. Y. Mathä, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

BCL working paper 154, Central Bank of Luxembourg, 2021


Do newer tenants pay higher rent? (with Y. Chen, P. Guarda, T. Y. Mathä, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

BCL Bulletin 2021/1, Analyse 1, 2021


Decomposing Luxembourg mortgage flows into loan origination and repayments (with B. Kaempff)

BCL Bulletin 2020/1, Analyse 3, 2020


Housing and inequality: The case of Luxembourg and its cross-border workers (with G. Claveres, T. Y. Mathä, J. Stráský, N. Woloszko, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1608, OECD Publishing, 2020


The Luxembourg Household Finance and Consumption Survey: Results from the third wave (with Y. Chen, T. Y. Mathä, B. Schuster, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

BCL working paper 142, Central Bank of Luxembourg, 2020


The Cross-border Household Finance and Consumption Survey: Results from the second wave (with T. Y. Mathä, and M. Ziegelmeyer)

BCL working paper 119, Central Bank of Luxembourg, 2018



Other policy contributions to the BCL Bulletin  (in French)