Prof. Dr. Aras Zirgulis

Professor
Email: aras.zirgulis@archive.ism.lt
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Prof. Dr. Aras Zirgulis is an American-Lithuanian scholar who has taught at ISM University since 2010. After completing his undergraduate degree at UCSD, he moved to Lithuania—studying at Vilnius University for his master’s degree, and at ISM for his doctoral degree. His research mainly relates to Public Economics and tax related issues, where he has published widely. Aras has participated in research visits at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim (Germany) and BI Norwegian Business School (Norway). He is the recipient of The Kazimieras Meškauskas Prize from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences for best Economics dissertation.

Awards

  • Kazimieras Meškauskas Prize from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences for best Economics dissertation (2017).

Research areas

  • Public Economics and tax related issues

Teaching areas

  • Microeconomics
  • Global Economics
  • Public Finance
  • History of Economic Thought
  • Logical Argumentation

Courses

Public Finance (FIN104)
International Economics and Trade (ECO121)
Microeconomics (ECO101)
Logical Argumentation (MNG241)

Publications

Zirgulis, A. (2023). Migration and unemployment: the case of Europe. 12th Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research, December 28, 1-17
Zirgulis, A., & Hashimoto, T. (2023). Trade theory vs reality: the banana trade war. The International Trade Journal, 37(5), 502-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/08853908.2023.2206170
Hashimoto, T., & Zirgulis, A. (2021). "Risk literacy" and social cleavages: Vulnerability in three acts. Analele Universitatii din Bucuresti - Stiinte Politice, 23(2), 173-192. https://doi.org/10.54885/ISCV8624
Zirgulis, A. (2021). Property taxation and aging: the evolving tax structures in Europe. In 27th European Real Estate Society Annual Conference, 2-5 June (pp. 1-12). Kaiserslautern
Zirgulis, A. (2021). Property taxation and aging in Europe: a spatial econometric approach. In The XV World Conference of Spatial Econometrics Association, 26–28 May (pp. 1-12). Tokyo
Zirgulis, A. (2021). Do excise tax changes really affect cross-border beer sales? Micro evidence from the Baltics. In 8th Annual Mannheim Taxation Conference, 9-10, September (pp. 1-1). ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
Huettinger, M., Zirgulis, A., & Hashimoto, T. (2021). Deal-breaker of decentralisation? Risk of automation at the peripheral regions: Working paper. In Annual International Conference 2021 Royal Geographical Society (pp. 1-23). Royal Geographical Society
Zirgulis, A., Huettinger, M., & Misiūnas, D. (2021). No woman, no aggressive tax planning? A study on CEO gender and effective tax rates in the Lithuanian retail sector. Review of Behavioral Finance, 14(3), 394-409. https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-09-2020-0232
Huettinger, M., Zirgulis, A., Boyd, J., Verseckaitė, E., & Kušlys, M. (2020). Pramonės 4.0 iššūkiai: Našumo, užimtumo ir integralaus augimo sprendimai. Vilnius: ISM Vadybos ir ekonomikos universitetas
Huettinger, M., & Zirgulis, A. (2020). Controversies regarding the TTIP agreement in the academic literature. Review of Economics and Economic Methodology, IV(1), 79-103.
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