1998 - Ph.D. in economics from University of Copenhagen
1996 - M.Sc. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1992 - M.A. in economics from University of Copenhagen

Professor in Public and International Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology (from June 2007)
Research supervisor, Research Department, Eesti Pank (from May 2006, initially as Visiting researcher)
Senior economist, Environmental Assessment Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark (Oct. 2005 to April 2006)
Euro Faculty lecturer, University of Tartu (Aug. 2001 to Aug. 2005)
Senior advisor, International Department, Central Bank of Norway, Oslo (Jan. 1998 to July 2001)
Euro Faculty lecturer, University of Vilnius, Lithuania (Aug. 1996 to July 1997)

Selected publications:

A further investigation of unemployment persistence in European transition economies, 2011, with Juan-Carlos Cuestas and Luis Alberiko. Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 39, No. 4.

Democratic and market-economic reforms in the post-communist countries. The impact of enlargement of the European Union, 2011. Eastern European Economics, Vol. 49, No. 5.

The global financial crisis and public finances in the new EU countries in Central and Eastern Europe: Developments and challenges, 2010. Public Finance and Management, Vol. 10, No. 4.

Unreported employment and envelope wages in mid-transition: Comparing developments and causes in the Baltic countries, 2010, with Jaanika Meriküll. Comparative Economic Systems, Vol. 52, No. 4.

Income convergence and inflation in Central and Eastern Europe: does the sun always rise in the east?, 2010. Eastern European Economics, Vol. 48, No. 5.

The Maastricht Inflation Criterion: What is the effect of Enlargement of the European Union?, 2010, with John Lewis. Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3.

Inflation in the new EU countries from central and eastern Europe: Theories and panel data estimations, 2009, European Economy. Occasional Papers No 50 (What drives inflation in the New EU Member States?)

Estimates of employment and welfare effects of personal labour income taxation in a flat-tax country: The case of Estonia, 2009. In Microfoundations of Economic Success: Lessons from Estonia, David G. Mayes (Ed.), Edward Elgar

Why do individuals evade payroll and income taxation in Estonia?, 2008 (with Kenneth Kriz, Jaanika Merikull and Alari Paulus). In Shadow Economy, Corruption and Governance, Michael Pickhardt & Edward Shinnick (Eds.): Edward Elgar

Fiscal policies and business cycles in an enlarged euro area, 2008, Economic Systems, Vol. 32, No. 1

Linkages between political and economic reforms in the post-communist countries, 2006, Nordic Journal of Political Economy, Vol 32, No. 2

Two-stage bargaining with coverage extension in a dual labour market, 2000 ((with Mark Roberts and Torben Tranaes), European Economic Review, Vol. 44, No. 1

The soft budget constraint in the transition economy - and the prospect of privatization, 1993, Acta Oeconomica, Vol. 45, No. 3-4

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