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EUROMOD - Tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union

Governance

Four Directorates-General of the European Commission (DG EMPL, DG ECFIN, DG TAXUD and DG REFORM) have agreed to co-finance the lon-term development and maintenance of EUROMOD. The Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) has the responsibility for the model maintenance and update, with DG ESTAT acting as main data provider.

The governance structure of EUROMOD includes a Steering Committee and a Scientific Advisory Board:

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring the progress of EUROMOD against the stated aims, objective and mission. It provides written recommendations on plans of action to address priorities on the proposed activities for the forthcoming years, including the long-term development strategy of the model, and on its financial perspective. It has seven members: four representatives of the four partner DGs; one represetative of DG JRC; one representative of DG ESTAT; and the chairperson of the the Scientific Advisory Board.

Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) provides guidance as regards to technical development plans and overall scientific strategy. It monitors the scientific use of the model in academic and policy circles, providing advice in support of the development of EUROMOD, its documentation and dissemination, and its broad policy and academic impact. The SAB provides DG JRC and DG ESTAT with recommendations to address the priorities, challenges and opportunities in terms of EUROMOD development (see their Scientific reports here). It has seven members: four representatives of the EUROMOD national teams; one academic, or former academic, with extensive experience in tax and social policy, income inequality and poverty; a representative from a member state’s public administration that uses EUROMOD regularly in their budgetary process and in the distributional assessment of policy reforms; and the chairperson of the Steering Committee

These are the current members of the SAB:

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  • Greek Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

Eirini Andriopoulou

Eirini Andriopoulou is an economist specialized in labour economics, applied microeconomic analysis and public policy making
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  • Greek Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

Eirini Andriopoulou

Currently, she serves as the Head of the Unit of Experts in Employment, Social Insurance, Welfare and Social Affairs (M.E.K.Y.) in Greece. She has been appointed national delegate at committees of the EU and international organizations such as the Ageing Working Group, the Working Group on Pension Adequacy, the EFC Sub-Committee on Statistics, and the Economic Policy Committee. She is experienced in the design and implementation of various public policies, in fiscal and distributional impact analysis, as well as in negotiations of economic adjustment programmes. She holds a PhD in economics and her academic interests focus on inequality and poverty, as well as the design of social and tax policies. 
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  • DG EMPL

Elva Bova

Elva Bova has joined the EUROMOD community in 2024, when she became Head of the Unit Analysis and Statistics in European Commission’s Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
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  • DG EMPL

Elva Bova

In this capacity, she manages a team of analysts and statisticians to produce research in support of policy-making. Prior to this, she has been working in the field of public finance for nearly a decade both at the Commission and at the International Monetary Fund. Her research interests cover the labour market, inequality and public finance, with publications on these topics in economic journals and policy papers.
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  • Bank of Italy

Andrea Brandolini

Mr Andrea Brandolini is Deputy Director General for Economics, Statistics and Research at the Bank of Italy. He was chair of the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics (CMFB) and a member of the Bureau of the European Statistical Forum (ESF), the Eurosystem’s Statistics Committee (STC) and the Board of the European Master in Official Statistics (EMOS)
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  • Bank of Italy

Andrea Brandolini

He was chair of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) and a council member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) and of Società Italiana di Economia (SIE). He was a member of the World Bank Commission on Global Poverty. He was associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality. He co-edited The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Incomes (with S.P. Jenkins, J. Micklewright and B. Nolan, OUP, 2013), and A.B. Atkinson’s posthumous book Measuring Poverty Around the World (with J. Micklewright, PUP, 2019).
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  • IT national team

Francesco Figari

Francesco Figari is Professor of Public Finance at the University of Eastern Piedmont and Research Fellow of CeRP, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy).
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  • IT national team

Francesco Figari

He has been involved with the development of EUROMOD since 2005, with primary responsibilities in the enlargement phase of EUROMOD to EU-28 countries and working on several extensions including modelling of labour supply reactions, in-kind benefits, wealth-related policies and tax-expenditures. He has published in the fields of poverty, taxation and European welfare systems in international journals such as Oxford Economics Papers, Fiscal Studies, Journal of Economic Inequality, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Social Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Policy Modeling, Economic Modelling.
 
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  • DK national team

Bent Greve

Bent Greve is Professor in Social Science with an emphasis on welfare state analysis at the University of Roskilde, Denmark. Since 2013 being involved in the Danish yearly report in relation to EUROMOD
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  • DK national team

Bent Greve

His research interest focuses on the welfare state, and social and labour market policy, often from a comparative perspective. He has published extensively on social and labour market policy, social security, tax expenditures, public sector expenditures and financing of the welfare state. He is editor of Social Policy & Administration.  He has published an extensive number of articles in different journals as well as a large number of books.
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  • EL national team

Manos Matsaganis

Manos Matsaganis joined the EUROMOD community in 1997. He is currently Professor of Public Finance at Polytechnic University of Milan, and Head of the Greek & European Economy Programme at Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy ELIAMEP in Athens
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  • EL national team

Manos Matsaganis

He is also Research Associate of the Hellenic Observatory Centre, London School of Economics, and sits at the Scientific Committee of the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan, and at the Advisory Board of the diaNEOsis foundation in Athens. His Oxford University Press book “Who’s afraid of the welfare state now?” (with Anton Hemerijck) came out in 2024.
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  • BE national team - Chaiperson of the SAB

Gerlinde Verbist

Gerlinde Verbist is senior researcher at the University of Antwerp, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy (Belgium). She is part of the EUROMOD community since 2003.
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  • BE national team - Chaiperson of the SAB

Gerlinde Verbist