Salvatore Morelli

Salvatore Morelli is an Associate Professor in Public Economics at Roma Tre University’s Law Department and holds roles as a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality in New York, where he directs the GC Wealth project. His expertise spans wealth taxation, income distribution, and the interplay between economic inequality and environmental issues like CO2 emissions.

Education:

• M.Sc. in Economics, LSE
• D.Phil. in Economics, University of Oxford (2013)

Research focuses on wealth distribution dynamics, intergenerational transfers, taxation methodologies, and the use of inheritance tax/survey data. Recent work explores links between inequality and carbon emissions. His findings appear in journals such as the Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Economic Inequality.

Labs/Teams: Directs the GC Wealth project analyzing global wealth concentration trends.