Main research lines, results and policy implications

Main fields of expertise: 

• measurement and analysis of human wellbeing, 

• the redistributive and budgetary effects of tax-benefit reforms using microsimulation tools, 

• just transition related carbon pricing strategies, 

• gebder inequality, 

• socio-economic impacts of the booms and busts along economic cycles. 

Current projects:

• Energy transition in Luxembourg and cross-country EU comparative (with LISER)

• Political ideologies and fiscal redistribution

• Intersection of housing and energy poverty measurements

Broader interest

• Economic development and integration

• Labor market mismatches and crowding-out effects of job competition 

• Informality 

• Perceptions of fairness and attitudes towards redistribution and welfare states, economic history and the history of economic thought.