Peter Birch Sørensen
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1985.
Present Position
Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen.
Past Positions
Assistant Professor of Economics, Royal Agricultural University, 1983-85;
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1985-91;
Professor of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, 1991-95
Other Activities
Research management:
Co-founder and present Director of the Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), supported by a grant from the Danish National Research Foundation;
Co-ordinator of the activities of the CESifo research network in the area of Public Economics. 1990-93: Scientific coordinator of an inter-Nordic research project on "Tax Policy in Small Open Economies", sponsored by the Nordic Economic Research Council;
1993-95: Leader of the Copenhagen team within the Human Capital and Mobility research network on "Fiscal Implications of European Integration";
2000 to present: Leader of the Copenhagen team within the Research and Training network on "The Analysis of International Capital Markets: Understanding Europe’s Role in the Global Economy";
Member of the Board of Management of the Danish Economic Association
Danish government service:
Co-chairman of the Danish Economic Council 1997-1999;
member of the Danish government tax reform committees of 1992 and 2001;
member of the 1992 government committee on Structural Problems in the Labour Market;
consultant to the Ministry of Taxation and to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (1988);
consultant to the Ministry of the Environment (1990)
International government service:
consultant to the Fiscal Affairs Division, OECD (1990-91);
consultant to the Committee of Independent Experts on Company Taxation (‘Ruding Committee’), established by the European Commission (1991-92);
consultant to the Swedish Ministry of Finance (1993), member of the Norwegian government tax reform committee 2002-2003;
consultant to the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF (2003);
member of the Group of Economic Analysis established by the European Commission’s Group of Policy Advisers, from 2001 to present
IIPF service:
Member of the IIPF Board of Management 1991-96;
Executive Vice President of IIPF 1997-99;
Chairman of the Scientific Committee for the 1995 IIPF Congress in Lisbon
Editing activities:
Co-Editor of FinanzArchiv and member of the editorial boards of International Tax and Public Finance, Fiscal Studies, German Economic Review, CESifo Economic Studies, CPB Report and the Danish Journal of Economics. Associate Editor of the European Economic Review 1994-2000;
Guest Editor of special issue of Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1994;
Guest Editor of special issue of International Tax and Public Finance, 1996;
Editor of and main contributor to a book volume on Tax Policy in the Nordic Countries, Macmillan Press, 1998;
Editor of book volume on Public Finance in A Changing World, Macmillan Press, 1998;
Editor of book volume on Measuring the Tax Burden on Capital and Labour, forthcoming on MIT Press;
Co-editor of the Policy Watch section of International Tax and Public Finance 1997-1999;
Member of the panel for the journal Economic Policy, 1998-2000
Honors
First Prize of the Lundbeck Foundation 1990;
Winner of the 1995 Daeyang Prize in Economics (with Bernd Genser and Andreas Haufler)
Selected Publications
"Taxation, inflation and asset accumulation in a small open economy", European Economic Review, 1986;
"Capital income taxation in a growing open economy", European Economic Review, 1991 (with Søren Bo Nielsen);
"Human capital investment, government, and endogenous growth", Finanzarchiv, 1993;
"Capital taxation, inflation and housing investment - The long run in a small open economy", Canadian Journal of Economics, 1994 (with Søren Bo Nielsen);
"From the global income tax to the dual income tax - Recent tax reform experiments in the Nordic countries", International Tax and Public Finance, 1994;
"Labor tax reform, employment and intergenerational distribution", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1994 (with Svend E. Jensen, Søren B. Nielsen and Lars H. Pedersen);
"Subsidising consumer services - Effects on employment, welfare and the informal economy", Fiscal Studies, 1995 (with Niels Frederiksen, Peter Hansen and Henrik Jacobsen);
"Indirect taxation in an integrated Europe: Is there a way of avoiding trade distortions without sacrificing national tax autonomy?" Journal of Economic Integration, 1995 (with Bernd Genser and Andreas Haufler);
"Some old and new issues in the theory of corporate income taxation", Finanzarchiv, 1995;
"Changing views of the corporate income tax", National Tax Journal, 1995;
"Environmental policy, pollution, unemployment and endogenous growth", International Tax and Public Finance, 1995 (with Søren B. Nielsen and Lars H. Pedersen);
"Tax policy, housing and the labour market - An intertemporal simulation approach", Economic Modelling, 1996 (with Svend E. Jensen, Søren B. Nielsen and Lars H. Pedersen);
"On the optimality of the Nordic system of dual income taxation", Journal of Public Economics, 1997 (with Søren Bo Nielsen);
"Public Finance solutions to the European unemployment problem?", Economic Policy, no. 25, 1997;
"Optimal tax progressivity in imperfect labour markets", Labour Economics, 1999;
"Optimal taxation with household production", Oxford Economic Papers, 2000 (with Henrik Kleven and Wolfram Richter);
"The case for international tax coordination reconsidered", Economic Policy, 2000;
"Tax coordination in the EU - What are the issues?", Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2001;
"The German business tax reform of 2000 - A general equilibrium analysis", German Economic Review, 2002;
"International tax competition - A new framework for analysis", forthcoming in Economic Analysis and Policy;
"Labour tax reform, the good jobs, and the bad jobs", forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Economics (with Henrik Kleven);
"International tax coordination - Regionalism versus globalism", forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics;
"Company tax reform in the European Union", forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance
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