Events

For the second time IREF is organizing a conference in Zurich, with the cooperation of the Swiss Liberales Institut. We chose this year to talk about the Flat Tax. We should remind here that the introduction of a flat tax in the European countries is one of our main proposals and in 2009, IREF translated and published in French language the well known book on the flat tax from Alvin Rabushka and Robert Hall.

Pierre Garello and Jean Philippe Delsol presented in Lyon the translated and edited by IREF well known book from Alvin and Rabuschka. You can read more about this book here.

The Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues (IREF) and the Council on Public Policy jointly hold a symposium on "Fiscal Competition for an Accountable Government" in Berlin on November 9, 2007. Victoria Curzon-Price (University of Geneva), Charles B. Blankart (Humboldt University, Berlin), Michael Eilfort (Stiftung Marktwirtschaft, Berlin) and Lars Feld (University of Heidelberg) were invited to give sound theoretical insights and to present reliable empirical data on fiscal competition. Furthermore, these reputable experts in fiscal issues were concentrating on fiscal competition on a federal level. conference was opened by Jiři Schwarz (University of Economics, Prague), who emphasized that the effects of fiscalcompetition are a hot topic in European Union. Pierre Garello (University of Aix-Marseille, IREF) afterwards introduced the Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues (IREF) to the auditorium. The establishment of IREF in 2002 was motivated, inter alia, by OECD's labeling of fiscalcompetition per se as harmful. IREF's mission consists particularly in promoting scholarly research on fiscal issues and taxation and to linking this academic work to public policy.

The European Fiscal Mosaic
 
Speakers:
Pr. Victoria Curzon-Price, University of Geneva
Pierre Bessard, Institut Constant de Rebecque, Switzerland
Me Jean-Philippe Delsol, IREF
Pr. G. Bramoullé, Paul Cézanne University, Aix-en-Provence
 
The future of fiscal policy in the EU: harmonization, flat tax or fiscal federalism
 
Pr. Lars Feld, Professor of Economics, Marburg Univeristy, Germany