ISER’s Professor Sutherland presents LIS Summer Lecture 2013 in Luxembourg

Holly Sutherland, Research Professor at ISER and Director of EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union, recently presented the 2013 LIS Summer Lecture: “Who Pays for Austerity? The Design and Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in the European Union” at the Cross National Data Center in Luxembourg to an audience of key economists.

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(Left to right) Dr Serge Allegrezza, Director of Observatoire de la Compétitivité, Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade/STATEC (of Luxembourg)

Professor Holly Sutherland, Director of EUROMOD and Research Professor at ISER

Professor Janet Gornick Director of the LIS Cross-national Data Center and Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).

Professor Markus Jäntti Research Director of the LIS Cross-national Data Center and Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University.

Professor Sutherland has coauthored numerous working papers for the EUROMOD Working Paper Series including, The Distributional Effects of Austerity Measures: A Comparison of Six EU Countries and, most recently, Nowcasting Indicators of Poverty Risk in the European Union: A Microsimulation Approach.