Organisation
Morelli
Position
Associate Professor of Public Economics
Biography
Salvatore Morelli is Associate Professor in Public Economics at the “Roma Tre University” - Law department - and he is the Director of the GC Wealth Projects at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality in New York, where he is also a Senior Scholar. Salvatore is also a member of the steering committee of the Italian Forum on Inequality and Diversity (Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità).
Since 2023, he acts as Associate Editor of the Italian Economic Journal. Salvatore’s research interests center around the measurement, determinants, and consequences of income and wealth inequality as well as the economics of income and wealth taxation. A number of his recent research projects focus on the role of intergenerational wealth transfers and its taxation in shaping wealth distribution, and around several methodological issues for the estimation of personal wealth concentration (mostly using inheritance tax data and survey data). More recently, his ongoing research is also focused on understanding the interconnection between economic inequality and CO2 emissions.
Salvatore holds a M.Sc. in Economics at the LSE and a D.Phil. in Economics at the University of Oxford, completed in October 2013. His work has appeared in leading public economics journals such as the Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economic Inequality, and Fiscal Studies.
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