Luca Salvadori

Luca Salvadori is a Tenured Professor and Serra Húnter Fellow in the Department of Economics and Economic History at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and an Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).

Professor Salvadori is an applied economist whose primary research interests are within the field of Public Economics. In particular, he studies the economics of taxation, tax administration, fiscal federalism and applied microeconomics. ​The focal point of his research is the analysis of the role played by tax administration and tax enforcement policies in strengthening state capacity and enforcing the ability to collect taxes in an effective and fair way.

In addition to his research and teaching activities in the BSE community, Salvadori is an Associate Research Fellow at the ESRC Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC) of the University of Exeter – Business School (UoE-BS) and Affiliated Researcher at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB).

His research has been published in international refereed journals such as the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Inquiry, Regional Studies, International Tax and Public Finance, the Journal of Tax Administration, Economia Politica, CESifo Economic Studies and Applied Economic Analysis.

He is co-editor of the Special Issue on “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Shaping Future Tax Systems” for the Journal of Tax Administration, and he recently co-organized a Special Issue for CESifo Economics Studies on the topic “Fiscal Capacity, Tax Compliance and Development.”

Professor Salvadori earned his PhD from Universitat de Barcelona.