2024 – A Year of Growth for Public Finance Research 2024 marked the founding of the Centre for Public Finance and significant successes for CORPTAX. While the Centre launched its first initiatives to improve public finance in Czechia, CORPTAX advanced research on firm taxation, secured new funding, and gained access to key tax data. Building …
6 fully funded PhD positions in public economics The Charles University economics department is looking for 6 talented and driven master’s graduates (or 2nd-year students) interested in public economics to join its PhD programme in Economics and Finance. The positions are fully funded. Supervisors: Matěj Bajgar, Petr Janský, Miroslav Palanský Duration: October 2025 (or earlier) …
Thanks to the organisational leadership by Miroslav Palanský, the International Institute of Public Finance Congress takes place this year in Prague, locally co-organised with Lubomír Cingl at the Prague University of Economics and Business. The largest and for CORPTAX the most relevant gathering of public finance economists will see many star economists converging on Prague …
Third year of CORPTAX We are happy that 2023 treated CORPTAX mostly well, and we are here to share the successes – and to remind prospective PhD students that we are hiring junior researchers this year. We had several papers accepted for publication in academic journals, all of which are listed in our publications. As …
CORPTAX is hiring up to three new full-time junior researchers starting from September 2024 for 3 years, who would also complete their PhD studies in economics at Charles University during that period.
The DemoTrans project is now underway after CORPTAX researchers attended the kick-off meeting at KU Leuven on September 1-2, 2022.
As part of the DemoTrans project, CORPTAX organized a research workshop titled “Inequalities in Corporate Taxation and Public Procurement”. The workshop focused on recent work-in-progress research in economics and related fields, exploiting increased data quality due to recent transparency measures in corporate taxation and public procurement. The new research papers reveal the various inequalities in …
As 2022 comes to an end, we look back at the exciting second year of the CORPTAX research group and summarise the main stories of CORPTAX and its researchers.
The DemoTrans project is now underway after CORPTAX researchers attended the kick-off meeting at KU Leuven on September 1-2, 2022.
CORPTAX, in collaboration with EU Tax Observatory, is organizing an academic conference in Prague in November 2022.
Find more information, full call for papers and submission form in this post.
