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) …
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 …
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 …
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.
New project, new opportunities: DemoTrans Several CORPTAX team members are involved in the DemoTrans project, recently accepted for funding as part of the Horizon 2020 programme by the European Commission. DemoTrans will study the interplay between the sustainability of our democratic institutions and corporate transparency. The project is set out to begin on September 1, …
As 2021 comes to an end, we look back at the fruitful first year of the CORPTAX project and summarize the main successes of CORPTAX researchers.
CORPTAX aims to establish how much multinational corporations pay in taxes, to what extent these taxes are paid in tax havens, and which factors drive these patterns. Ultimately, it aims to use theoretical, methodological and empirical innovations to transform the understanding of corporate taxation in a globalised world. The five-year-long project was launched in January …
