CRIEP (interuniversity research centre of public economics) is a scientific joint venture promoted by public finance and public economics academics of the main universities in Veneto, Italy.
The centre was founded in 1998 by the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padua, the Department of Economics of Ca’ Foscari University and the Department of Economics of the University of Verona. CRIEP involves economic researchers from the founder departments and from other Italian and international research institutes and it pursuits interdisciplinary contamination, accordingly to very high scientific quality standards.