NRI Fellows
December 31, 1969
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Ioana Petrescu
Former NRI Fellow
RESEARCH AREAS
Children's Health
Taxation in Developing
Economies
Economic Sanctions
Entrepreneurship
Children's Health
Taxation in Developing
Economies
Economic Sanctions
Entrepreneurship
Phone: 202-862-7164
BiographyIoana M. Petrescu is a National Research Initiative Fellow at AEI. Ms. Petrescu conducts research on economic sanctions, especially the deterrent effect of sanctions, as well as their impact on health. She is also interested in assessing the effectiveness of tax policies in countries with high tax evasion. She has written on topics ranging from the effects of income taxation on entrepreneurship to the impact of financial sector quality on tax revenue. Her fields of specialization are health, public economics, development economics, international political economy, and international economics. [CV]
EducationPh.D., economics, Harvard University, 2008, thesis: "Essays in Taxation and International Relations"
A.M., economics, Harvard University, 2007
B.A., economics, mathematics, Wellesley College, 2003, theses: "The Incidence of Corporate Tax in an Open Economy under Imperfect Competition" and "Stochastic Processes Occurring in the Theory of Markov Chains and their Applications"
Working Papers
Work in Progress
- Income Mobility in Developing Countries
