Director
[ Prof. Dr. Michael Bolle ]

Senior Research Assistants

Research Fellows
[ Alexander Salhi ]
[ Andreas Kern ]
[ Conrad Clemens ]
[ Funda Celikel Esser ]
[ Yahui He ]
[ Cordelia Friesendorf ]

Junior Research Assistants
[ Ian Canaris ]
[ Martin Rößler ]
[ Tilko Swalve ]
[ Philipp Broniecki ]
[ Saskia Helm ]
[ Stephan Kreutzer ]

IT Management
[ André Micklich ]

[ Alumni ]

Fields of Interest

• Political Economy of Fiscal Policy and Social Security Reform
• New Political Economy
• Positive Political Theory
• Inequality and Redistribution

Past Teaching Activities

• Neue Politische Ökonomie - Grundlagen, Modellierungen, Anwendungen (L)
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• Einführung in Modelle der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie am Beispiel der Europäischen Union (L)
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• Chaos, Spiele, Regressionen
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• Spieltheorie für Politologen: eine Einführung (PÖ), (IPÖ)
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• Politische Ökonomie der Europäischen Finanzpolitik
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• Politische Ökonomie der Finanzpolitik
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• (Formale) Modelle der Politischen Ökonomie am Beispiel der Europäischen Union - eine Einführung
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• Neue Politische Ökonomie - Grundlagen, Modellierungen, Anwendungen
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Selected Papers and Publications

• Oliver Pamp (2008): "Sustainable Convergence and Pension Reform in Central and Eastern Europe" in: Stuchlik, Andrej (Hrsg.): Rentenreform in Mittel- und Osteuropa. VS-Verlag. (with Michael Bolle)
• Oliver Pamp (2008): "Partisan Preferences and Political Institutions: Explaining Fiscal Retrenchment in the European Union" European Political Economy Review, Vol. 8, (Spring 2008), pp. 4-39
• Oliver Pamp (2008): "Income Inequality, Redistributional Spending and "Director's Law": An Empirical Reinvestigation" Working Paper (with Philipp Mohl)
• Oliver Pamp (2008): "Explaining Fiscal Retrenchment in the European Union: Rational Decisionmaking and Institutional Constraints" Saurugger, Sabine / Deschaux-Beaume, Delphine / Delori, Mathias (Eds.): Pour un debat sur les apports et limites du choix rationnel en science politique. Paris: Economica.
• Oliver Pamp, (2008): "Income Inequality & Redistributional Spending: An Empirical Reinvestigation of Competing Theories, " Public Finance and Management [Forthcoming], (with Philipp Mohl)
• Oliver Pamp (2007): "The (Fiscal) Price of Diversity: Preference Heterogeneity, Electoral Institutions and Budgetary Performance" Working Paper. (with Philipp Mohl)
• Oliver Pamp (2006): "The Political Economy of Fiscal Retrenchment: An Empirical Investigation." in Bodenstein, T. and M. Bolle (Eds.): After Eastward Enlargement: Political Economy Perspectives on a New Europe. BWV.
• Oliver Pamp (2006): "It's politics, stupid! - EMU enlargement between an economic rock and a political hard place" CESifo Forum, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 22-28. (with Michael Bolle)
• Oliver Pamp, H.-D. Jacobsen (2005): "Die EURO-Zone. Das neue Kerneuropa?" in Franzke, Jochen (Ed.): Europa in der Denkpause - Wege aus der Verfassungskrise. Brandenburgische Landeszentrale fuer politische Bildung.