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Veronique de Rugy

Biography

Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. She was previously a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, and a research fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Her research interests include the federal budget, homeland security, tax competition, and financial privacy issues.

Ms. de Rugy is the coauthor of Action ou Taxation, published in Switzerland in 1996. She is currently on the board of directors of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity.

Ms. de Rugy earned a MA in economics from the University of Paris IX-Dauphine and a PhD in economics from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She previously directed academic programs for the Institute for Humane Studies-Europe in France.

Articles, Commentary, and Publications

• Mercatus Reports: Spring 2008 - Bush at Midnight
• The Trillion-Dollar War
• The Never-Ending Emergency: Trends in Supplemental Spending
• Midnight Regulations: An Update
• Facts and Figures about Seven Years of Homeland Security Spending
• Billions and billions dig a deeper hole
• Mercatus Reports: Winter 2007 - Big Banks, Not Small Businesses, Benefit from the SBA
• Small Business Administration: Is the 7(a) Program Achieving Measurable Outcomes?
• Is Port Security Funding Making Us Safer?
• Mercatus On Policy - A Guaranteed Success?

Events

• A Balancing Act: Examining U.S. Budget Issues
• Procuring Protection
• Taxing Wealth: Exploring Issues in Taxation