Roberto
Iacono
Ph.D. in Economics, Professor in Economics (with focus on Social and Welfare Policy) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
About me
My recent research is at the intersection between Public and Applied Economics, with a focus on (i) behavioural responses to capital taxation, (ii) the measurement of income and wealth inequality, and (iii) micro-econometric questions related to labor market policy and welfare interventions.
I am a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE International Inequalities Institute (III), CESifo Research Network Affiliate, and Fellow at the World Inequality Database (WID) at the Paris School of Economics (PSE).
I am the PI of the RCN-funded “WelGain” project at NTNU (NOK 12M, 1M EUR, 2026-2029), and project participant of “Make Taxation Fair” at UiO (RCN, NOK 11.8M, 2021-2026).
Me as a lecturer
I teach and supervise students at the interdisciplinary NTNU Social Work department, giving lectures (in English and Norwegian) in courses such as “Politics, Welfare and Inequality“, “Social and Welfare Policy“, and “Quantitative Methods“.
Link to my CV and papers
You can find my updated CV here. More details on my papers can be found here: IDEAS/RePEc, Google Scholar, Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA), VoxEU, Scopus.
Me in the scientific community
For the academic year 2025-2026, I am visiting the EUI (Dept. of Economics), and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Inst. of Economics). I have previously been Visiting Professor at the University of Siena (DEPS), and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).
I have edited a Special Issue for the European Economic Review: “Capital vs. Labor: Perspectives on Inequality and Taxation in the 21st Century“. Since 2019, I am the Managing Editor of the Journal of Income Distribution (JID).