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Dr. Henry TULKENS
Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Belgium

Dr. Henry Tulkens Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Voie du Roman Pays, 34 Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348 Belgium Tel: +32 10 474321 Fax: +32 10 474301 E-mail: tulkens@core.ucl.ac.be URL: http://www.core.ucl.ac.be/staff/tulkens.html

Professor Henry Tulkens teaches Political Economy, Public Economics and Economic Dynamics at Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium . His research is conducted at CORE (the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics), an interdisciplinary research institution within the university. Born in 1938, he received his higher education successively at the universities of Leuven, where he studied law, and of Louvain , where he obtained the doctorate in economics and was appointed as associate professor in 1968. He has held visiting positions at various universities, including Paris I, Princeton , Stanford and was a consultant for the IMF, the EU and various government agencies. From 1997 to 2002 he was also Secretary of the European Economic Association.

His research interests and publications bear mostly upon three themes: environmental economics, as a field of application of public goods and externality theory; fiscal competition and the foundations of federalism; and efficiency analysis, as a way to evaluate productive activities in general, and in the public sector in particular.