October 2007 CURRICULUM VITAE Vilen Lipatov OFFICE: Compass Lexecon 23, Square de Meeûs (7th Floor) 1000 Brussels Belgium Direct: +32 2 74 22 58 Main: +32 2 274 22 50 Fax: +32 2 274 22 69 Email: vlipatov@compasslexecon.com EDUCATION 08/2002 09/2007 European University Institute, Florence, Italy Degree: Doctor of Economics (Grant of Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and EUI), courses GPA 3.85 Thesis: Tax Evasion and Avoidance: Game Theoretic Approach Supervisors: Prof. Karl Schlag and Prof. Rick van der Ploeg External Readers: Prof. Chaim Fershtman and Prof. Ronny Razin 09/2000 06/2002 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Degree: MA in Economics with distinction (Grant of Open Society Institute), GPA 3.81 Thesis: On the Effectiveness of Tax Policy in Altering the Long-run Growth Supervisor: Prof. Leif Danziger 09/1994 04/2000 Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Degree: Magister of Economics Specialization: Macroeconomic modeling Thesis: Influence of Tax System on Economic Growth in Overlapping Generations Model Degree: Bachelor of Economics with distinction Specialization: Mathematical methods in Economics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 04/2016 PRESENT Compass Lexecon, Brussels, Belgium Senior Economist Theoretical and empirical analysis of industrial organization issues (mergers, anticompetitive conduct, abuse of dominance, intellectual property rights). 03/2015 03/2016 Compass Lexecon, Brussels, Belgium Economist Theoretical and empirical modeling of shifts in industrial organization 02/2010 02/2015 Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Lecturer at the Chair of Public Finance (Prof. Alfons Weichenrieder) Research and teaching in Public Economics and Microeconomics 10/2012 08/2013 University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessor) of Applied Microeconomics Research and teaching in Economics CRA International Academic associate 10/2013 : Modeling the effects of removing territoriality in EU patents 08/2013 : Modeling public offerings as signals for collusion in the presence of buyer power and negotiations 01/2012 03/2012 : Building and simulating a competition model of incentives to invest in broadband internet network 09/2011 10/2011 CRA International External advisor Modeling the impact of forced rights splitting on competition in pay-tv industry Modeling foreclosure in the market for mobile phone applications 04/2011 06/2011 Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany 2
Visiting Lecturer Teaching Public Economics seminar 02/2007 01/2010 Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany Lecturer at the Chair of Microeconomics Research and teaching in Microeconomics 04/2006 Antitrust case APEK vs. Mobitel d.d., Ljubljana, Slovenia Economic advisor Modeling investment incentives in telecommunications 03/2006 Antitrust case Western Wireless vs. Republic of Slovenia Economic advisor Empirical study and modeling of predation in mobile telecommunications 10/2004-02/2006 European University Institute, Florence, Italy Research Assistant to Professors Karl Schlag and Andrea Ichino Econometric analysis of experimental data using STATA programming 05/2001 05/2002 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Research Assistant to Labor Project Processing statistical data on Russian economic and social indicators 011/1997 09/1998 Interfax information agency, Moscow, Russia Expert Monitoring stock market Making fundamental analysis Editing Interfax Investment Report 3
FIELDS OF INTERESTS Industrial Organization, especially competition policy Public Economics, especially regional taxation and tax evasion Institutional Economics, especially compliance problems Health Economics, especially primary care Empirical Macroeconomics, especially estimation of rigidities WORKING PAPERS Upward pricing pressure of mergers weakening vertical relationships (with Gregor Langus), CESifo Working Paper 5692, December 2015 A note on partial merchant internalization and MIT threshold, CESifo Working Paper 5684, December 2015 The subsidiarity Principle as a Guideline for Financing the European Budget (with Alfons Weichenrieder), mimeo, July 2015. An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law: a Comment (with Gregor Langus and Damien Neven), mimeo, July 2015. Optimal income taxation under regional inequality (with Sebastian Kessing and Malte Zoubek), CESifo Working Paper 5152, December 2014. Sequential decision making in merger control (with Gregor Langus and Damien Neven), Geneva Graduate Institute Working Paper 14/2014, October 2014. The Effect of Corporate Taxation and Ownership on Raising Shareholder Capital (with Robert Krämer), CESifo Working Paper 4436, October 2013. (revise and resubmit to Economics of Governance) Compliance Dynamics Generated by Social Interaction Rules, CESifo Working Paper 4767, April 2014. A Simple Model of Satiation in Contests (with Magnus Hoffmann), mimeo, May 2012. Political Support and Tax Compliance: A Social Interaction Approach (with Chaim Fershtman). CEPR Discussion Paper 7554. November 2009. On Quantity Competition with Switching Costs (with Gregor Langus). MPRA Discussion Paper No 15457. 2009. Social Interaction in Tax Evasion. MPRA Discussion Paper No 8829. 2008. Compatibility in Tax Evasion. MPRA Discussion Paper No 1251. 2007. 4
PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED JOURNALS A decentralization theorem of taxation. (with Alfons Weichenrieder), CESifo Economic Studies, doi: 10.1093/cesifo/ifw003, 2016. Welfare and labor supply implications of tax competition for mobile labor. (with Alfons Weichenrieder), Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 45, Issue 2, 2015. How flexible are real wages in EU countries? A panel investigation (with Desislava Rusinova and Frigyes Heinz), Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 43, Issue 1, 2015. A Journey from a Corruption Port to a Tax Haven (with Shafik Hebous), Journal of Comparative Economics, Volume 42, Issue 3, 2014. Standard Essential Patents: Who is Really Holding Up (and When)? (with Gregor Langus and Damien Neven), Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2013. Corporate Tax Evasion: A Case for Specialists, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 81, Issue 1, 2012. Opportunities to divert, firm value, and taxation: theory and evidence from European firms (with Robert Krämer), Finanzarchiv, Volume 68, Issue 1, 2012. Diagnoses by General Practitioners: Accuracy and Reliability. (with W. Fink and M. Konitzer). International Journal of Forecasting, Issue 4, 2009. PUBLICATIONS: OTHER Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty: Insights from Studying Epidemiology in Family Medicine. (with M. Konitzer, W. Fink, G. Kamenski and T. Knigge) in The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare. Ed. J. Sturmberg. Springer International, 2016. Territoriality of the Making Available Right, (Eds. G. Langus, D. Neven, and S. Poukens. CRA Report prepared for European Commissions, DG MARKT, March 2014. Costing Methodologies and Incentives to Invest in Fiber. (with J. Haydock, G. Langus, D. Neven, and G. Shier). CRA Report prepared for European Commissions, DG Information Society and Media, March 2012. Out-of-equilibrium Play in Tax Evasion Games. in Complexity Hints for Economic Policy. Eds. M. Salzano and D. Colander. Springer Verlag, 2007 Modeling Influence of Tax System on Economic Growth. Collection of Articles of Graduate students. Moscow, TEIS, 2000 (in Russian) Tax System in OLG Model of Endogenous Growth Case Studies in Macroeconomics. Moscow, TEIS, 2000 (in Russian) AFFILIATIONS CESifo Research Network Affiliate 5
REFEREEING ACTIVITY BE Journal of Theoretical Economics Canadian Journal of Economics Economics of Governance Finanzarchiv Fiscal Studies International Review of Economics and Finance International Tax and Public Finance National Tax Journal Quarterly Journal of Economics Review of Economic Studies Scandinavian Journal of Economics TEACHING Advanced Microeconomics I, part 1 PhD course, Lecturer, 35-60 students Evaluation: 5.0 out of 6 Mathematical Economics Master preparatory course, Lecturer, 20 students Public Finance Bachelor course, Lecturer, 150 students Topics in Optimal Taxation Seminar, Instructor, 10 students Evaluation: 1.5 (very good) European Monetary Policy Bachelor course, Lecturer, 50 students Evaluation: 2.0 (good) Makroökonomik I Bachelor course (in German), Lecturer, 250 students Evaluation: 2.2 (good) Advanced Public Economics Master course, Lecturer, 60 students Evaluation: 2.7 (fair) Mikroökonomik I Bachelor course (in German), Lecturer, 250 Fall 2010,11,13,14 Fall 2014 Spring 2014 Spring 2013 Spring 2013 Spring 2013 Fall 2012 Fall 2012 6
students Evaluation: 2.2 (good) Advanced Topics in Public Economics Seminar, Instructor, 25 students Evaluation: 5.1 out of 6 Topics in Public Economics Seminar, Instructor, 15 students Topics in Public Finance Seminar, Instructor, 23 students Industrial Economics Master course, Lecturer, 25 students Evaluation: 5.1 out of 6 Industrieökonomik Undergraduate course (in German), Lecturer, 60 students Advanced Topics in Information economics Seminar, Instructor, 4 students Competition Policy Advanced undergraduate course, Lecturer, 10-15 students Evaluation: 1.5 (good) Industrial Organization Undergraduate course, Lecturer, 100-160 students Evaluation: 2.3 (good) Contests and tournaments Seminar, Instructor, 6 students Evaluation: 1.2 (very good) Microeconomics I PhD course, Teaching Assistant, 25 students Fall 2012 Spring 2012 Fall 2012 Spring 2011 Spring 2011 Spring 2010 Fall 2009 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Spring 2007 09/2003 10/2003 Master Thesis supervisor for Nico Steffen, The Economics of patents: Innovation and firm strategy in the shadow of litigation for Dominik Stiller, Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainability in Development Cooperation for Wei Guan, Multinational Tariff Competition for Weiting Hou, The role of transfer pricing in the Fall 2013 Fall 2012 Winter 2011 7
globalized economy for Ganna Dubel, The determinants of FDI in countries with transition economy Fall 2011 Diploma Thesis supervisor for Jevgenija Pfitzner, Demographic change and its economic consequences (in German) for Amine Khelfa, Airline industry in the US and Europe: comparative analysis (in German) for Claudia Prechtl, Is there too little innovation in Germany? International perspective (in German) for Lei Shen, Social welfare as an objective in designing a contest Spring 2011 Spring 2011 Spring 2008 CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES Regulating patent hold-up? An assessment in light of recent academic, policy and legal evolutions. February 2016, Brussels (Belgium) The Future of EU-Finances. Workshop of German Finance Ministry, July 2015, Berlin (Germany) More Europe or More Subsidiarity? Conference, May 2015, Freiburg (Germany) European Tax Policy Conference, April 2015, Mannheim (Germany) CESifo Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics, March 2015, Munich (Germany) Webster University Vienna Research Seminar, August 2014, Vienna (Austria) CRESSE 2014, July 2014, Corfu (Greece) Taxation Theory Conference, June 2014, Cologne (Germany) Public Administration and Economic Performance Conference, April 2014, Mannheim (Germany) Workshop on Federalism and Regional Policy, April 2014, Siegen (Germany) European Business School Research Seminar, March 2014, Wiesbaden (Germany) Roundtable on Economics of Innovation at Northwestern University, October 2013, Chicago (USA) Workshop on Governance and Political Economy, December 2012, Mysore (India) University of Duisburg-Essen Economics Research Seminar Series, December 2012, Essen (Germany) Workshop on corporate taxation at German Finance Ministry, October 2012, Berlin (Germany) Workshop on Federalism and Regional Policy, September 2012, Siegen (Germany) Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, September 2012, Göttingen (Germany) EEA/ESEM Congress, August 2012, Malaga (Spain) IIPF Congress, August 2012, Dresden (Germany) Vanderbilt Taxation Theory Conference, May 2012, Nashville (USA) 8
ESF Exploratory Workshop in Regional Economics, April 2012, Barcelona (Spain) Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, September 2011, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) IIPF Congress, August 2011, Ann Arbor (USA) Workshop Taxation, Transfers and the Labor Market, June 2011, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) Insurance. Inequality. Health. June 2011, Darmstadt (Germany) Young Researchers Workshop on Contests and Tournaments, November 2010, Magdeburg (Germany) CESifo Conference Corporate taxation and corporate governance, November 2010, Munich (Germany) EEA Congress, August 2010, Glasgow (United Kingdom) IIPF Congress, August 2010, Uppsala (Sweden) SMYE 2010, April 2010, Luxembourg Young Researchers Workshop on Contests and Tournaments, October 2009, Magdeburg (Germany) PET 2009, June 2009, Galway (Ireland) Trinity College Economics Research Seminar Series, June 2009, Dublin (Ireland) Tel Aviv University IO Workshop, May 2009, Tel Aviv (Israel) Swiss IO Day 2009, April 2009, Bern (Switzerland) ASSET 2008, November 2008, Florence (Italy) Deterrence in Competition Policy Conference, October 2008, Berlin (Germany) Frankfurt University Micro Brown Bag Seminar, July 2008, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Tel Aviv University Law and Economics Workshop, March 2008, Tel Aviv (Israel) Labsi International Conference, September 2007, Siena (Italy) EEA/ESEM Congress, August 2007, Budapest (Hungary) Ruhr Graduate School Doctoral Conference, February 2007, Dortmund (Germany) University of Amsterdam Economics Colloquia,Series XIV, February 2007, Amsterdam (Netherlands) Hanover University Micro Seminar Series, December 2006, Hannover (Germany) EERC Research Workshop, December 2005, Moscow (Russia) EERC Research Workshop, July 2005, Kiev (Ukraine) ASSET 2004, November 2004, Barcelona (Spain) New Economic Windows, September 2004, Salerno (Italy) EERC Research Workshop, July 2004, Kiev (Ukraine) WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED Workshop "Neue Erkenntnisse aus der volkswirtschaftlichen Forschung für Unternehmensbesteuerung im Kontext einer modernen Steuerpolitik", Bundesministerium der Finanzen, October 2012, Berlin (Germany) 9
COMPETITIONS Austrian National Bank Grant for an international conference presentation, 2012 Deutsche Bundesbank Grant for an international conference presentation, 2007 First PhD Meeting at London School of Economics, January 2006, invited to present a job market paper EERC Research Grant Competition, Spring 2004, receiving EERC grant for modeling Russian tax evasion Muskie Fellowship Program 2002, finalist, offered places in PhD programs at the Universities of Maryland, Michigan, and Georgetown Ways of development for Russia in XXI century 2000, finalist ADDITIONAL SKILLS Languages: Russian (native), English (fluent), German (advanced), French, Italian (intermediate), Bulgarian, Dutch, Hungarian and Slovenian (elementary). Computer skills: basics of programming (pascal, fortran), proficient in economic programming (Matlab, Gauss, Ox, AMPL), advanced user (MS Windows, Linux, MS Office, Mathematica, Scientific Workplace, web-navigation, webpage creation), statistical packages (E-views, PCGive, STATA, JMulti), basics of computer design Others: office-management, presentation skills, certified accountant (Russian standards), driving license (Russia), silver medal for outstanding performance in high school, ballroom dance teacher at EUI 10