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The authors
Wolfgang Blaas
Wolfgang Blaas is an economist and has retired from the Vienna University of Technology in 2012. He is currently giving courses on Economic Policy and International Eco
nomics at the University of Vienna.
wolfgang.blaas@tuwien.ac.at
Judith Clifton
Judith Clifton is Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences, University of Cantabria. She is also EditorinChief of Journal of Economic Policy Reform and serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, Cambridge Elements in Pub
lic Policy, Policy & Society and so on. She has published dozens of papers in leading international journals includ
ing J. of European Public Policy, J. of Regulatory Econom
ics, Regional Studies, and others. Her research interests lie in examining the origins, determinants and consequences of policy, both public and economic.
judith.clifton@unican.es
Svenja Flechtner
Svenja Flechtner is an economist. She is currently a Post
Doc research assistant at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on questions of economic and human development in the context of socioeconomic inequalities. She is also inter
ested in interdisciplinary collaboration between econo
mists and other social scientists.
svenja.flechtner@fuberlin.de
Michael Getzner
Michael Getzner is professor of public finance and infra
structure economics and chair of the Department of Spa
tial Planning (TU Wien). His special interest lies in ecolog
ical economics, public finance, and infrastructure policy.
michael.getzner@tuwien.ac.at
Gerlinde Gutheil-Knopp-Kirchwald
Gerlinde GutheilKnoppKirchwald is researcher at the Austrian Federation of LimitedProfit Housing Associa
tions, Department of Housing Economics and Research.
She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning. Her main research interests are comparative policy analyses and the sociospatial dimensions of housing.
ggutheil@gbv.at
Lukas Haffert
Lukas Haffert is a comparative political economist. He is a senior researcher at the Unviersity of Zurich and currently John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies. His research interests in
clude the politics of fiscal policy and processes of institu
tional change.
haffert@ipz.uzh.ch
Ian Koetsier
Ian Koetsier is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is part of the chair Public Sector Eco
nomics. His dissertation focuses on implicit government obligations. The study he is presenting here, looks at the fiscal costs of large natural disasters and the development of these costs over time.
i.koetsier@uu.nl.
Dieter Plehwe
Dieter Plehwe is a political scientist and senior fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center. He has held teaching po
sitions at Yale University and the University of Vienna as well as visiting fellowships at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University and at the Har
vard Center for European Studies.
He is a general editor of the Journal of Critical Policy Stud
ies. His research interests are mainly in the field of com
parative capitalism, neoliberalism studies and the history of economic ideas.
dieter.plehwe@wzb.eu
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Wilfried Schönbäck
Wilfried Schönbäck studied economics at the University of Vienna. Ph. D. 1978. From 1985 until 2009 he was head of the Center of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at the Department of Spatial Planning, Vienna University of Technology. At present lecturer there. Focus points in re
search and publications: Public Finance and Infrastructure Economics, especially public budgets at different levels of the State; fiscal federalism; health, transport, water, waste disposal and environmental economics.
wilfried.schoenbaeck@tuwien.ac.at
Grazia Withalm
Grazia Withalm is a spatial planner and currently works as an university assistant at the Department of Spatial Plan
ning at the TU Wien. Her research concentrates on nature conservation planning, protected areas and ecological economics.
grazia.withalm@tuwien.ac.at
