Articles - academic journals 

Minimum energy taxes for climate and clean air in the EU: Environmental and distributional impacts
 with Toon Vandyck, Mattia Ricci, Luis Rey, Marie Tamba and Fabian Wagner
 Energy Economics, 2025 – Link to the article
 Short summary: This study explores how implementing minimum energy tax rates across EU member states can simultaneously advance climate and clean-air objectives. Using a macro-micro approach, the study quantifies the expected environmental gains and distributional effects of harmonized tax schemes, and of compensatory measures. The results indicate that carefully designed minimum energy taxes can substantially reduce CO₂ and pollutant emissions while maintaining fairness across income groups, highlighting the role of fiscal coordination in the EU’s green transition.

Bridging climate and social equity: Progressive carbon tax simulations for Belgium

with Floore Bursens, Silvia De Poli and Gerlinde Verbist
 Ecological Economics, 2026 –  [Link to the article]
 Short summary: This paper examines how carbon taxation can be designed to achieve both climate and social objectives. Using Green EUROMOD, a microsimulation model integrating environmental and fiscal policies, the authors simulate alternative carbon tax scenarios (on residential energy and transport) for Belgium. We show that creative policy designs can help aligning decarbonization goals with social fairness, bridging climate action and equity.

Who is "Energy Poor" in the EU?

with Ilda Dreoni
 Energy Policy, 2025 –  [Link to the article]
 Short summary: Analyzes four indicators of energy poverty across the EU. Identifies very limited overlap between measures, highlighting the complexity of defining and addressing energy poverty.

Limiting Prices or Transferring Money?
 with Antonio F. Amores, Paola De Agostini, Michael Christl and Silvia De Poli
 Energy Economics, 2025 –  [Link to the article]
 Short summary: Assesses the impact of energy price caps in Germany, the Netherlands and Austria during the 2022–23 crisis. Results show partial mitigation but persistent inequality impacts.

Enforcing Equal Pay for Equal Work in the EU: what would it take?
 with Silvia De Poli
 Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024 – [Link to the article]
Short summary: Estimates (adjusted) gender pay gaps across EU countries with a novel technique, and simulates the distributional effects of narrowing them. Highlights country differences driven by tax-benefit systems and household composition.

Characterizing the Schooling Cycle
 with Barbara Sadaba and Sunčica Vujić
 Economic Modelling, 2024 – [Link to the article]
Short summary: Examines the cyclical dynamics of education participation in the UK (1995–2019). Schooling choices respond differently to economic downturns and upturns, with gender heterogeneity.

Inflation, Fiscal Policy, and Inequality
 with Antonio F. Amores, Henrique Basso, Johannes Simeon Bischl, Paola De Agostini, Silvia De Poli, Emanuele Dicarlo, Maria Flevotomou, Maximilian Freier, Sofia Maier, Esteban García-Miralles, Myroslav Pidkuyko, Mattia Ricci, Sara Riscado
Review of Income and Wealth, 2024 – [Link to the article]
 Short summary: Studies the distributional effects of post-pandemic inflation and government fiscal measures in six Euro Area countries. Shows low-income households were hardest hit, partly cushioned by fiscal support.

The Redistributive Impact of Indirect Taxation in the EU
 with Mattia Ricci
 Economic Analysis and Policy, 2024 – [Link to the article]
 Short summary: Analyzes VAT and excise tax changes in the EU (2010–2019). Consumption taxes became more unequalizing, particularly through housing-related energy taxation.

Taxing Household Energy Consumption in the EU: The tax burden and its redistributive effect
 with Antonio F. Amores and Mattia Ricci
 Energy Policy, 2023 –  [Link to the article]
Short summary: Uses EUROMOD microsimulation to evaluate the burden and redistributive impact of energy taxation across Member States. Shows the importance of country differences in consumption patterns and taxation.

Working Papers (not yet published)

Using Hills' low-income-high-cost approach to shed new light on housing and energy deprivations across EU households with Gemma Riera Mallol and Kateryna Bornukova,   JRC Working Paper Series on Taxation and Structural Reforms 01/2026 [Link to the WP] [SUBMITTED/UNDER REVISION]

Green EUROMOD: the environmental extension of the EU's tax-benefit microsimulation model with Silvia De Poli, David Klenert, Antonio F. Amores and Ilda Dreoni, JRC Working Papers on Taxation and Structural Reforms No 04/2026 - [Link to report]  [SUBMITTED/UNDER REVISION]

Carbon Taxes on Consumption: Distributional Implications for a Just Transition
 with Silvia De Poli and Antonio F. Amores. EUROMOD Working Paper Series – [Link to the WP] [SUBMITTED/UNDER REVISION]

Work in Progress

Inequality: what have we done? A decade after Atkinson's agenda, with Luis Ayala, Amaia Palencia and Gerlinde Verbist

Political Parties and Income Redistribution in the 21st Century, with Adrian Hernandez and Silvia De Poli

Who bears the cost of carbon pricing? Gender differentials in carbon footprint and distributional impact of carbon pricing across Europe, with Denisa Sologon and Alicia Garrido 

Green EUROMOD: Environmental impacts by detailed COICOP, with Antonio F. Amores, Silvia De Poli and Richard Wood.

Reports and Policy Papers

PhD Thesis

Empirical Essays on the Effects of the Economic Cycle on Human Capital, Health and Fertility
 PhD thesis, University of Antwerp, 2019 – [Link to thesis]