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IIPF and CESifo Richard Musgrave Professor / Lecture in 2026

The committee selected Professor Nathaniel Hendren (MIT) as the CESifo and IIPF Richard Musgrave Professor 2026. Professor Hendren will deliver the 18th CESifo and IIPF Richard Musgrave Lecture on 15 April 2026.
Further information on the Musgrave Professorship can be found on the CESifo website .

Call for Applications: Distinguished Research Fellowships at TU Dresden 2026

In 2021, the Faculty of Business and Economics of TU Dresden started the Distinguished Research Fellowship Program. Up to three research fellowships for internationally renowned scholars (including professors, outstanding assistant professors and associate professors) will be granted per year. Key objectives associated with the Distinguished Research Fellowships are to foster innovative ideas and initiate exciting, vibrant research collaborations, to support the development of PhD students and early-career scholars (e.g., postdocs) of the Faculty, as well as to further expand the international research network and activities of the Faculty of Business and Economics.

Fellowship application is open to all international scholars at the professor level (professors as well as outstanding assistant and associate professors) who:

(a) are active researchers in one of the following fields: business information systems, business administration, and economics,

(b) work at a university, or research institution, outside Germany, and

(c) have no recent collaboration history (e.g., no joint research projects and/or publications within the last five years) with members of the Faculty of Business and Economics.

The deadline for the next application round is on December 15th, 2025, with the Distinguished Research Fellows being awarded in spring 2026.

Further information can be found at Distinguished Research Fellowships - Faculty of Business and Economics - TU Dresden

International Tax and Public Finance editorial board, changes in 2025

International Tax and Public Finance has made some significant changes to its editorial board. At the end of last year, Ronald B. Davies and Nadine Riedel stepped down as two Editors-in-Chief. Their time with the journal saw a significant increase in its scope and impact and their efforts helped to solidify its position as one of the leading journals in the field of public economics. The openings they left have been filled by Katarzyna Bilicka, Jing Xing, and Thiess Buettner, with David R. Agrawal staying on as editor-in-chief for an additional term. Bilicka's and Buettner's move to Editor-in-Chief created vacancies in the Policy Watch editor positions. Arun Advani and Philipp Dörrenberg have joined the journal as the two Policy Watch editors.

The ITAX journal and IIPF have a long-standing relationship: ITAX publishes selected papers from the IIPF annual congresses in one special issue per year, and the journal also awards the ITAX PhD Student Award to the best paper presented by a PhD student at the IIPF annual congress.

2025 Annual Congress of the IIPF in Nairobi, Kenya

The 81st Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) will be held at the United States International University - Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, from August 20-22, 2025.

The theme of the keynote speeches - to be delivered by Rema Hanna, Niels Johannesen, Ravi Kanbur and Oyebola Okunogbe - is "Public Sector Capacities".

Prospective contributors, both practitioners and academics, are invited to submit papers on any topic within the field of public economics.

Selected papers from the 2025 IIPF Congress will be published in a special issue of International Tax and Public Finance.

The Scientific Committee is chaired by Prof. François Gerard (University College London, UK) and Dr. Shafik Hebous (International Monetary Fund, USA).

The Local Organizing Committee is chaired by Prof. Amos Njuguna (United States International University, Kenya) and Prof. Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich, Switzerland).

The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2025 (midnight, EAT). NEW, deadline extended to February 22, 2025!

Find the Call for Papers and further links here.

17th IIPF and CESifo Richard Musgrave Lecture on 19 March 2025

In 2008, the CESifo Group and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) established the Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship, to honour the memory of one of Public Finance's greatest scholars. The award winner is chosen through a formal selection process by the President and Vice Presidents of IIPF together with the President of the CESifo Group.

The committee selected Prof. Dhammika Dharmapala (UC Berkeley) as the 2025 award winner. On March 19, 2025 he delivered the 17th CESifo and IIPF Richard Musgrave Lecture on "International Taxation in an Age of Deglobalization" at CESifo / ifo Institute in Munich, Germany.

Further information on the Musgrave Professorship can be found here, and the video of the event is available on the CESifo website.

✝ IIPF Honorary President Victor Halberstadt

Message from the IIPF President James Hines to IIPF members, September 2024:

"It is my somber duty to report the passing of Victor Halberstadt (1939-2024), an honorary president of IIPF who served as IIPF president from 1987-1990. At the time of his death he was Professor Emeritus of Public Sector Economics at Leiden University in the Netherlands, having taught there since 1974; he taught previously at the University of Amsterdam from 1965-1974. Professor Halberstadt was a distinguished scholar, a cherished colleague, and a leading contributor to the world of affairs. He was widely considered a master in bridging the gap between the theoretical and practical aspects of public finance, a skill he deployed in his many advisory roles for the Dutch government, including its Social and Economics Council and Defense Affairs Advisory Council. Notably, he is credited with helping to resolve the 1981 Dutch cabinet crisis over the budget deficit (for younger IIPF members, that was a truly grim era for government budgets). Professor Halberstadt served in leading roles on the boards of several nonprofit organizations and private corporations, and the Dutch government honored him as a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion and with its Cross of Honor of the Order of the House of Orange. Professor Halberstadt was a friend and inspiration to IIPF members, and he will be greatly missed."

Obituary posted by Leiden University: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/09/in-memoriam-professor-emeritus-victor-halberstadt-1939---2024

Vito Tanzi writes about IIPF annual congresses

Professor Vito Tanzi, Honorary President of IIPF, published three books in which he reports on previous IIPF annual congresses.

Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2017) examines how the growth of the government's involvement in the economy has been accompanied by growing complexity which has facilitated, for some well connected or just lucky individuals, the getting of rents leading to growing inequality in the distribution of income. This book includes the most detailed "anatomy" of a public sector available in the literature.

In Russian Bears and Somali Sharks: Transition and Other Passages (New York, Jorge Pinot Books Inc., 2010) he examines seven economies that have undergone some kind of transition. The book comprises proceedings of the IIPF congresses in Italy (Taormina) 1979, Portugal 1995, and Russia 1999.

Peoples, Places and Policies: China, Japan and Southeast Asia (New York, Jorge Pinot Books Inc., 2008) describes two IIPF annual congresses, Korea 1992 and Kyoto 1997, as well as some events connected with them.
These books may contribute to the history of the IIPF and encourage IIPF members to relate similar experiences in future books.

Other titles recently published:

Monitoring the State or the Market: From Laissez Faire to Market Fundamentalism (Cambridge University Press, 2023), The Economics of Government (Oxford University Press, 2020), Advanced Introduction to Public Finance (Edward Elgar, 2020), The Ecology of Tax Systems Factors that Shape the Demand and Supply of Taxes (Edward Elgar, 2018), Government Versus Markets: The Changing Economic Role of the State (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Dollar, Euros and Debt. How we got into the Fiscal Crisis and how we get out of it (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Dal Miracolo Economico al Declino?

Vito Tanzi's books can be purchased via Amazon.

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