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What happens when you tax the rich?South Africa faces a dual challenge of limited fiscal space—the need to raise sufficient revenues to finance public services—and high levels of...
Nadine Riedel is the Director of the Institute for Public and Regional Economics at the University of Münster in Germany. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 2008 and was a research fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation from 2008 to 2010. Prior to joining the University of Münster, she held chairs at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim and the University of Bochum.
Her research focuses on international corporate taxation and on the intersection of public sector economics with regional and development economics. Her work is published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Urban Economics and European Economic Review. She acts as editor-in-chief of International Tax and Public Finance and serves on several scientific advisory boards, among others at the German Federal Ministry of Finance.
As a UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Dr Riedel is involved in the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development programme. Specifically, she is co-organizing the project’s sub-component on public revenue mobilization for inclusive development in South Africa.