Aras Zirgulis

Prof. Aras Zirgulis is an American-Lithuanian scholar and Professor at ISM University of Management and Economics since 2010. He holds degrees from UCSD (undergraduate), Vilnius University (master's), and ISM (doctoral). His research focuses on Public Economics, tax policy, and labor economics. He has conducted research visits at ZEW (Germany) and BI Norwegian Business School. Notably, he received the 2017 Kazimieras Meškauskas Prize for his doctoral work on economics.

Teaching includes courses like Microeconomics (ECO101), Public Finance (FIN104), and Logical Argumentation (MNG241). He led the RCL Postdoctoral Fellowship on Tax Structures (2020-2022, €49,815) and contributed to the Industry 4.0 project (2020, €61,142). His research spans tax impacts on cross-border sales, migration-unemployment linkages in Europe, and behavioral finance in corporate tax planning.

Key publications address Treasury yield curves, Baltic beer taxation, and banana trade wars. He actively participates in international conferences (e.g., ZEW, Spatial Econometrics Association). His work bridges theoretical economics with policy-relevant analysis, emphasizing fiscal frameworks and regional dynamics.