dr. AAF (Aart) Gerritsen

Biography

Aart Gerritsen is Associate Professor at Erasmus School of Economics. He is also affiliated with the Tinbergen Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, CESifo, the Norwegian Center for Taxation, and Instituut voor Publieke Economie. He is board member of Stichting Instituut Financieel Economisch Beleid, academic codirector of the bachelor program Economie & Samenleving, and Associate Editor of International Tax and Public Finance. 

Gerritsen obtained a BSc from Utrecht University and an MSc/MPhil from University of Groningen, before obtaining a PhD from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. After his PhD, and before returning to the EUR, he worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public in Munich. His research, teaching, and policy analyses all broadly center around optimal government policy in an unequal world. He is an expert on tax policy and minimum wage legislation, as well as other government policies with an important distributional dimension.

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