Ioana Deleanu

Ioana Deleanu (1986, Romania) came to the Netherlands in 2005 to start her academic studies at Utrecht University. After finishing a BSc in Economics and Law and an MPhil in Multidisciplinary Economics at Utrecht University School of Economics, she is now a PhD candidate at Utrecht University School of Economics under the supervision of Prof. dr. Brigitte Unger and Prof. dr. Francois Kristen. Her PhD focuses on the efficiency of information transmission chains present in various AML repressive frameworks and combines principles of economics, criminal law and network analysis.
Ioana started developing an interest in the economics of the underground economy already during her master studies. Together with Prof. dr. Brigitte Unger and fellow colleague Joras Ferwerda MSc., she analyzed the seminal approach of Vito Tanzi to estimating the size of the underground economy and concluded that taxes are no longer a primordial reason to use the underground economy. This work is published as a discussion paper at the Tjalling C Koopmans Research Institute and submitted to an international journal. The interest in the economics of the underground economy has thereafter grown and currently Ioana is working as researcher in the EU-funded project ‘ECOLEF’.