Keynote speakers

Prof. Giacomo Corneo

Giacomo Corneo is Professor of Public Finance and Social Policy at the Free University of Berlin.

He studied economics at Universitá Bocconi in Milan, received a Ph.D. at Ministero dell'Universitá in Rome and one from the EDP at EHESS in Paris, and got Habilitation at the University of Bonn. He taught at ENPC in Paris, at the University of Bonn, and the University of Osnabrück. He served as senior advisor at Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances in Paris. He has been since 2004 managing editor of the Journal of Economics. He also serves as associate editor of the International Review of Economics. He is Research Fellow of CEPR, London, CESifo, Munich, and IZA, Bonn.

He has published several works in the fields of public economics, labour economics, comparative economics, industrial organization, and growth theory. His papers appear in various periodicals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, International Economic Review, European Economic Review. His research interests include inequality and redistribution, public finance, and the economics of values and norms.

Prof. Tony Atkinson (1944-2017)

Sir Tony Atkinson is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Nuffield College, of which he was Warden from 1994 to 2005. He is Fellow of the British Academy, and has been President of the Royal Economic Society, of the Econometric Society, of the European Economic Association and of the International Economic Association.

He was responsible for the Atkinson Review of Measurement of Government Output. He has been a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique, advising the French Prime Minister. He was knighted in 2011 for services to economics, and is a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

He is author of Unequal Shares, The Economics of Inequality, Lectures on Public Economics (with J.E. Stiglitz), Poverty and Social Security, Public Economics in Action, Incomes and the Welfare State, Poverty in Europe, The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State, and Social Indicators: The EU and Social Inclusion(with B Cantillon, E Marlier and B Nolan), and The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries. He has published articles in, among other scientific journals, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal, and the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. He and his team have recently developed The World Top Incomes Database which provides access to a wealth of data on the distribution of top incomes in more than twenty five countries across the globe. The database has become an essential resource for analysts, policymakers and journalists seeking to understand global distributions of income (The World Top Income Database).