Andreas Knorr - Chair of Economics: Economic and Transport Policy
Andreas Knorr holds the chair of Economics: Economic and Transport Policy at the German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer. He received his PhD in 1993 and his “Habilitation” in 1996 from the University of Bayreuth. He also was visiting professor at Aichi University (Toyohashi, Japan), Shanghai Maritime University (Shanghai, P.R. of China), Manipal University (India), Tbilisi State University (Georgia) and Indiana University (Bloomington, USA). His research interests focus on transport economics (aviation, railways, postal and courier services), international trade (antidumping), competition policy and industrial organization as well as European economic integration.
William Resh - Associate Professor, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
William Resh is C.C. Crawford Professor in Management and Performance and an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management. Bill's research focuses on the behaviors of individuals within organizations tasked with public policy implementation. Bill's research has been published in respected peer reviewed journals and academic presses and has garnered several awards, including ones from the American Political Science Association, the Academy of Management, and the American Society for Public Administration.
Denvil Duncan - Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Denvil Duncan is an economist whose primary research focuses on the causes and consequences of tax evasion. His research has explored the impact of tax evasion opportunities on income inequality, labor supply, risk taking behavior, and tax incidence. He has also written on the subjects of shadow economic activity, tax morale, and tax competition, with his work published in top journals such as the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the National Tax Journal, and International Tax and Public Finance.
Another branch of Duncan's research explores the political acceptability of using road mileage user-fees to finance road construction, repair, and maintenance. Duncan and a team of researchers at Indiana University fielded a survey providing impactful information on the level and intensity of support for road mileage user-fees in the United States. Data from the survey has also been used to identify design features that affect the acceptability of mileage user-fees.
Denvil Duncan is an economist whose primary research focuses on the causes and consequences of tax evasion. His research has explored the impact of tax evasion opportunities on income inequality, labor supply, risk taking behavior, and tax incidence. He has also written on the subjects of shadow economic activity, tax morale, and tax competition, with his work published in top journals such as the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the National Tax Journal, and International Tax and Public Finance.
Another branch of Duncan's research explores the political acceptability of using road mileage user-fees to finance road construction, repair, and maintenance. Duncan and a team of researchers at Indiana University fielded a survey providing impactful information on the level and intensity of support for road mileage user-fees in the United States. Data from the survey has also been used to identify design features that affect the acceptability of mileage user-fees.
Karl-Peter Sommermann
Karl-Peter Sommermann holds a chair of Public Law, Political Theory and Comparative Law at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. He studied law and history at the Universities of Bonn and Geneva and of Administrative Sciences at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. After one year of research in Madrid at the University Complutense and at the Centre of Constitutional Studies he received a doctoral degree from the University of Bonn (1984). After his Second State Examination as a lawyer (1986), he was Lecturer at the Institute of Public International Law of the University of Bonn and from 1989 to 1998 Secretary General of the Research Institute for Public Administration in Speyer. In 1996, the Humboldt University Berlin conferred on him the venia legendi in Public Law, Public International Law, European Law and Constitutional History. He acted as visiting Professor at the University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po) in Paris and at the Andean University Simón Bolívar (La Paz/Sucre, Bolivia). He served as Director of the Research Institute of Public Administration at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and Rector of the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.
Michael Bauer - Chair of Public Administration, Speyer University
Michael W. Bauer holds the chair of Comparative Public Administration and Policy Analysis at the German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2000. From 2000 to 2009, he conducted his research and taught at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, the University of Konstanz and the Humboldt-University Berlin. His research focus and teaching experience lie in European Integration, Comparative Public Administration and Policy-Analysis. He concentrates on questions of institutional and organisational change in multilevel constellations and on public administrations’ role in policy-making as well as on subnational and regional politics in the European Union. Dr. Prof. Bauer was awarded a Jean Monnet Professorship in 2013. The Jean Monnet program is "a European Union initiative to encourage teaching, research and reflection in the field of European integration studies in higher education institutions." Only a select number of researchers are selected each year.