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Karsten Staehr
Research supervisor
Phone: +372 668 0716
Email: karsten.staehr@eestipank.ee
Research areas:
Inflation
Monetary integration
Public finances
Taxation
Economic transition
Education:
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
Work experience (recent):
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:
 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
A Microeconometric Analysis of Household Saving in Estonia: Income, Wealth and Financial Exposure, 2009 (with Dmitry Kulikov and Annika Paabut). 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
The Maastricht Inflation Criterion: What is the effect of Enlargement of the European Union?, 2010 (forthcoming), (with John Lewis), Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3
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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