My Profile - Curriculum Vitae

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Contact (e-mail adresses):
benno.torgler@qut.edu.au
benno@torgler.com

Personal:
Born on November 30, 1972 (Switzerland)

Citizenship:
Swiss

Marital Status:
Married

Children:
Two little girls (Jessica & Vanessa)

Education:
2003 doctorate in economics (summa cum laude),
doctoral thesis topic: tax morale: theory and empirical
analysis of tax compliance, University of Basel.

2001 Summer School on Advanced Methods in the
Social Sciences (Survey and Research Design and
Analysis of Panel Data/Event History).

2001 Studienzentrum Gerzensee: Advanced Summer
Course in Experimental Economics.

2001 Summer School on “Social and Psychological
Foundations of Economic Life” in Steyr (Austria).

1999 Lic.oec.publ. University of Zurich (Switzerland)
(Master of Economics).

Languages:
English, German, French, Spanish, Italian (orally).

Positions:
Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, 2006-

Lecturer Yale University (Spring Semester 2006).

2004-2006, Research Affiliate at The Whitney and Betty
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at
Yale, Leitner Program in International & Comparative
Political Economy.

Since 2004 Research Fellow at the Center for Research
in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) in
Switzerland (http://www.crema-research.ch/fellows.htm).

Visiting Scholar at the Andrew Young School of Policy
Studies at Georgia State University from September
2003 to August 2004.

Program Visitor in July/August 2003 at the Centre for
Tax System Integrity, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia.

2000-2003 KYKLOS book review editor.

2000-2001 lecturer in economics at AKAD (college).

2000-2002 member of the Regent House at the
University of Basel.

Teaching Experiences:
2006 Spring Semester, Yale University, International
Relations (INRL 532), Tax Evasion, Shadow Economies,
and Corruption: The Dark Side of Economics.

2004 Georgia State University, Andrew Young School
of Policy Studies, USA, Summer Internship Program,
Applied Microeconomics.

2000-2003 University of Basel, Public Finance and
Political Economy.

2000-2001 AKAD Business School, Zurich, Switzerland,
Principles of Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics
and Business Economics.

Honors/Awards/Grants:
Research Grant from the Swiss National Science
Foundation, Bern, Switzerland, 2005-2007.

University of Basel Award (Amerbachpreis 2004,
dissertation award).

Research Grant from the University of Basel (Fond
zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses), 2004.

Research Grant from the Max Geldner-Stiftung,
Basel, Switzerland, 2004.

Research Grant from the Janggen-Pöhn-Stiftung,
St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2004.

Research Grant from the Freiwillige Akademische
Gesellschaft, Basel, Switzerland, 2004.

Research Grant from the Swiss National Science
Foundation, Bern, Switzerland, 2003.

Research Grant from the WWZ (Wirtschaftswissen-
schaftliches Zentrum), University of Basel, Switzerland,
2001.

Referee:
Journals:
Agriculture Economics
Constitutional Political Economy
Comparative Economic Studies
Economic Journal
Economic Inquiry,
Economics of Governance
European Economic Review
European Journal of Political Economy
Feminist Economics
FinanzArchiv
International Scope Review
Intervention
Journal of Applied Economics
Journal of Comparative Economics
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal of Economic Psychology
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Public Economics
Journal of Socio-Economics
Journal of Sports Economics
Journal of Theoretical Politics
KYKLOS
National Tax Journal
Law and Social Inquiry
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
Post-Communist Economies
Public Choice
Public Finance Review
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Books:
MIT Press (one paper in a collective volume)
Cambridge University Press (book proposal)

Promotion and Tenure Process:
Independent expert to evaluate an Assistant Professor
to be granted promotion to Associate Professor with
tenure in a US University (once).

Editorial Board:
International Journal of Sport Management and
Marketing.

The International Scope Review

Conferences / Invited Speaker:
University of Zurich, IEW, Zurich (Switzerland), October
2006 (forthcoming).

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
(Australia), August 2006.

Monash University, Melbourne (Australia), August 2006.

University of Berne, Berne (Switzerland) Department of
Economics, June 2006.

Conference on “Managing and maintaining compliance”,
Leiden (Netherlands), April 2006.

5th Erfurt Conference on Fiscal Sociology,
Erfurt (Germany), October 2005

The Andrew Young School's Six Annual Conference on
Public Finance Issues in an International Perspective:
Experimental Public Economics, Atlanta (USA), May 2005
(Discussant).

Georg Walter Leitner Program in International and
Comparative Political Economy. Political Economy Seminar
Series, Yale University, New Haven (USA), December
2004.

Public Finance Seminar, IEB, Institut d’Economia de
Barcelona (Spain), November 2004.

Conference on State Capacity, Trust and Tax Evasion in
St. Gallen (Switzerland), October 2003.

Third International Research Conference Responsive
Regulation: International Perspectives on Taxation” in
Canberra (Australia), July 2003.

The Andrew Young School's Fourth Annual Conference
on Public Finance Issues in an International Perspective:
The Challenges of Tax Reform in a Global Economy,
Atlanta (USA), May 2004.

General Conferences (Accepted Papers):

National Tax Association Conference, Boston (USA),
November, 2006.

3rd World Congress of Environmental and Resource
Economists, Kyoto (Japan), July 2006.

IAREP Conference, Paris (France), July 2006.

II Atlantic Workshop of Energy and Environmental
Economics, Toxa (Spain), June 2006.

Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society
(EPCS), Turku (Finnland), April 2006.

Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association
Meetings, New Orleans (USA), March 2006.

Annual Conference Verein für Socialpolitik, Perspektiven
für das Gesundheitswesen,
Bonn (Germany), September 2005.

First Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic
Inequality (ECINEQ)” to be held in Palma de Mallorca
(Spain), July 2005.

Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society
(EPCS), Durnham (UK), March/April 2005.

Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association
Meetings, New Orleans (USA), March, 2005.

National Tax Association Conference, Minneapolis (USA),
November 2004.

Annual Conference Verein für Socialpolitik,
Marktwirtschaft und Risiko Programm, Dresden (Germany)
September/October 2004.

Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association
Meetings, Baltimore (USA), March 2004.

National Tax Association Conference, Chicago (USA),
November 2003.

Conference on “Tax Evasion, Trust, and State Capacities”,
St. Gallen (Switzerland) October 2003.

Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and
Statistics 2003, Berne (Switzerland), March 2003.

National Tax Association Conference, Orlando (USA),
November 2002.

European Public Choice Society, Belgirate (Italy),
March 2002.

Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association
Meetings, San Diego (USA), March 2002.

 

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