Phone: + 44 (0) 24 7652 3070
Fax: + 44 (0) 24 7652 3032
Email: Michela.Redoano@warwick.ac.uk
Room: S.2.106
Office hours: Tuesdays: 10.30-12.30 ( Term 1, 2011-12).

Research Interests

Public Economics, Political Economy, Globalisation, Empirical Tax/yardstick Competition, Fiscal Federalism

Publications and Papers Under review

• “Fiscal Interactions among EU Countries. Does the EU Matter?”,CES-Ifo Working Paper 1952, resubmitted to the European Economic Review.

• "Does Centralisation Affect the Number and Size of Lobbies?" (2010), Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 12(3), 407-435.
• "Do Countries Compete over Corporate Tax Rates ?" (with Mike Devereux and Ben Lockwood), (2008), Journal of Public Economics,Volume 92(5), 1210-1235.
• "Horizontal and vertical Tax Competition: Theory and Some Evidence from the USA" (with Mike Devereux and Ben Lockwood), (2007), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 91, Issue 3-4, 451-479
• "The Political Economy of Policy Centralisation: Direct versus Representative Democracy" (with Kim Scharf ), 2004, Journal of Public Economics 88, 799-817.

Working Papers

• Incumbent Effects and Partisan Alignment in Local Elections: a Regression Discontinuity Analysis using Italian Data (2012) (joint with Emanuele Bracco and Francesco Porcelli)
• "The CSGR Globalisation Index: an Introductory Guide", (with Ben Lockwood) (2004) Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation Working Paper 155/04.
•  “Capital Account Liberalization and Corporate Taxes”, (with Mike Devereux and Ben Lockwood), (2003) IMF Discussion paper n 03/180, revise and resubmit to the IMF Staff Papers.

Teaching

• EC981 Topics in Public Economics
• EC320 The Economics of Public Policy

Departmental Responsibilities

First Year Tutor

MSc Admission