The University of Insubria

		Umberto Galmarini

	Contact data	Associate Professor Department of Law and Economics of Firms and Persons Via Garibaldi, 61 – 22100 Como, Italy Tel: +39.031.3305814 Fax: +39.031.3305830 E-mail: umberto.galmarini@uninsubria.it
	Biography	Born in Milan on February 1st, 1963. After graduation (BA in Economics and Management) at the Catholic University of Milan in 1987, he spent a period of time at the University of Warwick, UK, where he took an MA in Economics in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1993. During this period, he also taught undergraduate classes. From 1993 to 2001 he has been a lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan. During this period he also taught courses at the Catholic University in Piacenza, at the University of Bergamo, at the University of Novara. Since 2001 he is an Associate professor at the University of Insubria, School of Law in Como. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Local Public Finance Committee at the Autonomous Province of Trento. He is a referee of the following journals: Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, International Tax and Public Finance, Public Finance Quarterly, Fiscal Studies, Politica Economica.
	Qualifications and awards	Scholarship “Marco Fanno”, from Mediocredito centrale in Roma, to undertake graduate studies at the University of Warwick (UK) in 1988-90.
	Research interests	Research topics include: Tax incidence and optimal commodity taxation in economies with imperfect competition. Income taxation in the presence of tax evasion and tax avoidance. Presumptive taxes. Tax enforcement. The impact of special interest groups (lobbies) on policy-making. Local public finance.
	Teaching experience and appointments	1990-1993, University of Warwick, UK, classes in Quantitative Economics and Economics I. 1993, University of Bergamo, classes in Public economics. 1993-2001, Catholic University of Milan, courses and classes in Public Finance, Game theory, Macroeconomics. 1997-2001, Catholic University in Piacenza, course in Public finance. 1997-1999, University of Novara, course in Public finance. 2001 to date: University of Insubria School of Law, Como, courses in Economics I, Public Finance, Economic analysis of law. 2002-2003, Master degree in Public Economics, Catholic University of Milan, course in Public economics. 2005, Graduate School in the Economics and Finance of Public Administration (a joint Doctoral program of public and private Universities in Milan), course on Topics in Modern Public Economics.
	Representative publications	On the Size of the Regressive Bias in Tax Enforcement, Economic Notes, n. 1, 1997, pp. 75-102. On the Pareto Ranking of Commodity Taxes in a Price-Setting Oligopoly with Product Differentiation, (with G. Colangelo), Public Finance, Vol. 52(1), 1997 (published 1999). Ad Valorem Taxation on Intermediate Goods in Oligopoly, (with G. Colangelo), International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 8(1), 2001, pp. 53-73. Imperfect Tax Compliance and the Optimal Provision of Public Goods (with A. Balestrino), Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 55 (1), 2003, pp. 37-52. Search and Taxation in a Model of Underground Economic Activities (with D. Anderberg e A. Balestrino), Economic Inquiry, Vol. 41 (4) October, 2003, pp. 647-659. Fiscal Federalism and Endogenous Lobbies’ Formation (with M. Bordignon e L. Colombo), CESifo Working Papers, no. 1017, August 2003. On the Redistributive Properties of Presumptive Taxation (with A. Balestrino), CESifo Working Papers, no. 1381, January 2005. Presumptive Taxation, Markets and Redistribution (with A. Balestrino), Politica Economica, numero 1, aprile 2005, pp. 165-186.

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