Dirk Foremny is an Associate Professor at the UB School of Economics at the University of Barcelona and he is affiliated with the Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (I.E.B.) and the CESifo in Munich. Mr Foremny works in the area of Public Economics, with a focus on applied research in Public Finance. He currently studies the effects of taxation on (internal) migration, tax evasion and income shifting, fiscal capacity of governments, and what shapes preferences for redistribution.