EUROMOD Newsletter – Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Originally developed by the JRC to be used by experts inside the European Commission network, since April 2021 the interface is open to any researcher or policy analyst. Please, continue reading if you would like to discover more about this tool!

We are excited to inform you that JRC is co-organizing the Annual Research Conference together with ECFIN hybrid (in Seville and in remote) next 20-21 September How to turn green in the European way? keeping cutting the edge while remaining fair and social.

The conference will feature several presentations dealing with the distributional impact of Green policies, including taxation.

Michael Christl and Vanda Almeida recently left the EUROMOD team.

Michael's work focused on the area of microsimulation, where he worked on model maintenance and development in the area of taxation policy using the EUROMOD microsimulation model. He was also the EUROMOD developer for Austria, Hungary and Netherlands. He was also part of the team in charge of generating the EUROMOD public release and of the team that coordinates the B2 Seminars.

Vanda worked on the assessment of the impact of fiscal reforms affecting tax revenues and benefit expenses, inequality, and disposable income in the European Union member states. Furthermore, she contributed to the improvement of the link between the European Commission's microsimulation and DSGE models, EUROMOD and QUEST respectively. She was also the EUROMOD developer for France, Portugal and, in previous years, for Germany.

The EUROMOD team wishes them the best in their next projects!

Kostas has recently joined the EUROMOD team. He holds a degree in Computer Science and an MSc by Research from Salford University. Before joining the JRC, he was the main software developer of the EUROMOD software in ISER, University of Essex, and played a central role to the design and development of the EUROMOD software and a broad range of related plugins (such as ITT, HHoT, Statistics Presenter). He also designed and developed a tool for building custom simplified web interfaces for EUROMOD, known as EM Light.

The National Team from Denmark working on EUROMOD is composed of M. Azhar Hussain and Bent Greve. Let's find out about them!

The National Team from Malta working on EUROMOD is composed of Stephanie Vella, Wayne Apap and Riana Said. Click on "more" to learn more about them!

A list of recent publications using EUROMOD, including direct links.

As in previous years, the EUROMOD team has produced three documents summarising the main results obtained with the latest version of the model: the Statistics on the Distribution and Decomposition of Disposable Income (Webstatistics), the EUROMOD baseline report and the PET indicators. These documents have been published in the EUROMOD website together with the Scientific Report produced by the The Scientific Advisory Board.