Jan Fidrmuc

I am a Professor in Economics at Lille Économie Management (LEM), Université de Lille, France. I obtained my PhD in Economics at the Center for Economic Research at Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 1999. Previously, I held appointments at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) at Bonn University, Trinity College Dublin, European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brunel University London, and served as the founding head, and subsequently external advisor, of the Institute for Strategy and Analysis (ISA) at the Government Office of the Slovak Republic. My research interests include political economy, economic development, institutional economics and labor economics.