Peter Birch Sørensen: Selected comments and lectures on economic policy (English)

 "Independent fiscal watchdogs: Rationale and Danish experience" Invited presentation at the international conference on Controlling Public Spending Spending in Advanced Economies organized by the IMF and the Italian Ministry of Finance in Rome, November 14-15, 2011.

 "Long term fiscal sustainability: a Danish and Nordic success story?"  Invited presentation at the Nykredit Capital Markets Day, October 13, 2011.

"Competing social models in the global economy". Invited lecture given at the 2011 Munich Economic Summit, May 19-20, 2011 (published in the CESifo Forum no. 3, 2011).

 "The Danish experience with a Financial Activities Tax". Invited lecture given at the 2011 Brussels Tax Forum organized by the European Commission, March 28-29, 2011.

"Swedish tax policy: recent trends and future challenges". A report to the Expert Group on Public Economics (ESO),  Swedish Ministry of Finance, presented in Stockholm on May 31, 2010. The complete report can be dowloaded here.

"The Mirrlees Review: Lessons for and from the Nordic countries". Invited presentation at the Seminar on Tax Reform, Finnish Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT), Helsinki, October 6, 2009.

"Some reflections on tax competition" Invited lecture given at Hans-Werner Sinn's 60th birthday conference, April 25, 2008.

"Pressures on EU tax systems and options for reform". Invited lecture at the conference Wanted: The Tax System of the Future organised by the German Ministry of Finance and the Social Science Research Centre Berlin, May 24, 2007.

"The corporate income tax: International trends and options for fundamental reform". Invited lecture at the DG Economic and Financial Affairs Workshop on Corporate Tax Competition and Coordination in Europe held in Brussels, September 25, 2006.

 "To harmonise or not to harmonise? A comment on the European Commission's study on company taxation". Contribution to panel debate at the conference on "Corporate and Capital Income Taxation in the European Union: The EU Commission Report on Companies' Taxation and Beyond" organised by FUCAM and CESifo in Mons, Belgium, December 7-8, 2001.

"The Future of Company Taxation in the European Union". Invited comments on a speech by EU Tax Commissioner Frits Bolkestein, presented at the conference on 'Tax Policy in the European Union' in Rotterdam, 18 October 2001.

"The Nordic Dual Income Tax - In or Out?". Invited speech given at the meeting of the OECD Working Party no. 2 on Fiscal Affairs in Paris, June 14, 2001.