Roberto
Iacono
Ph.D. in Economics, Professor in Economics 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) microeconometric questions related to active 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 a project participant of the RCN-funded project “Make Taxation Fair” (FRIPRO, NOK 11.8 million, 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, Cristin, VoxEU, Scopus.
Me in the scientific community
In 2025-2026 I will be 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 am currently a guest editor of a Special Issue for the European Economic Review (NSD:2): “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, NSD:1).