Prior to joining the doctoral program at the University of Siegen (Germany), he was a visiting PhD candidate at Jönköping International Business School (Sweden) and University College London (U.K.). His main research interests are related to tax evasion, entrepreneurship policies, business strategies, competitiveness and social contribution of entrepreneurs. Dr. Tālis Putniņš is an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Research Associate at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (Latvia), and Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UTS Business School (Australia). His research interests include financial economics, market microstructure, market manipulation, tax evasion, and partial detection modelling. Tālis has a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney.