Johanna Speer
| Email: | johanna.speer (at) staff.hu-berlin.de |
Position within the Division of Cooperative Sciences
Until August 2011 Ph.D. Student and Junior Research Fellow in the Joint Research Project "Making Rural Services Work for the Poor"
Research Interest
- Political Economy: political agency models, local government responsiveness, political accountability
- Participatory governance in local public good provision in Guatemala: determinants and effects
- International economics: impacts of trade on economic development and poverty
- Economic Policy Analysis: econometric evaluation of policy impacts, cost-benefit analysis
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): calibration of interview data to fuzzy-sets, two-step approaches
Academic Career
| August 2011 |
Humboldt University of Berlin PhD defense: Thesis „Participatory Governance, Accountability, and Responsiveness: A Comparative Study of Local Public Services in Rural Guatemala” |
| Since 04/2008 | Humboldt University of Berlin Ph.D. candidate in the international research project “Making Rural Services Work for the Poor – The Role of Rural Institutions and their Governance for Agriculture-led Development" |
| 09/2008 – 12/2008 | Indiana University, U.S. Visiting Scholar at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis |
| 04/2001 – 03/2002 | University of Bayreuth, Germany Faculty of Cultural Studies Chair of Philosophy and Economics Research Assistant |
Academic Background
| 09/2005 - 06/2006 | Professional Training Programme in development
cooperation, German Development Institute (DIE), Germany and
Jordan |
| 09/2003 - 07/2005 | M.Sc. Global Market Economics, London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE), England Thesis topic: Does Trade Liberalisation Alleviate Poverty – A Critical Review of Recent Evidence from India Award of degree: Master of Science (Distinction) |
| 10/2000 - 03/2003 | B.A. Philosophy and Economics, University of Bayreuth,
Germany Thesis topic: Trade Liberalisation and Economic Growth – What Do Theory and Empirics Tell Us? Award of degree: Bachelor of Arts (Overall Grade: 1,3) |
Field Research and Work Experience
| 08/2006 - 04/2008 | GFA Consulting Group GmbH, Latin America and the
Caribbean Department, Germany and Latin America: Young Professional.
Technical assistance to developing countries and project management in
the area of private sector development and public sector reform with
the following major tasks (presented by country):
|
| 07/2004 – 09/2004 | RBB Economics (Economic Consultancy), England: Summer
Associate |
| 05/2003 – 07/2003 | Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Peru:
Intern |
| 02/2001 – 04/2001 | Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, Germany: Intern |
Awards and Memberships
| 09/2008 - 12/2008 | Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD) for Visiting Scholar Stay at the Workshop in
Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, USA |
| 09/2004 - 06/2005 | Scholarship of the Hamburger Scholarship Program for the university fees of mey Master´s degree at LSE |
| 09/2003 - 07/2005 | Scholarship of the Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst (DAAD) for graduate studies at the London School of
Economics and Political Science |
| 03/2001 - 07/2005 | Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation |
Publications
Basurto, X. / Speer, J. (forthcoming): Structuring the Calibration of Qualitative Data as Sets for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Field Methods.
Speer, J. (2010): "The joint effect of participatory governance, elections, and access to information on local government responsiveness", Paper presented at the 14th Annual Conference of The International Society for New Institutional Economics, Stirling, Scotland, June 17-19.
Speer, J. (2010): "A Political Agency Model of the Impact of Municipal Development Councils on Local Government Performance", Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the European Society for Public Choice, Izmir, Turkey, April 8-11.
Speer, J. (2009): "An Institutional Analysis of Impediments to Effective Participatory Governance: the Case of Guatemala", Paper presented at the 7th Development Dialogue, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, June 2-3.
Loewe, M. / Blume, J. / Speer, J. (2008): How Favouritism Affects the Business Climate - Empirical Evidence from Jordan, Middle East Journal, Vol. 62, No. 2.
Loewe, M. / Blume, J. / Schönleber, V. / Seibert, S. / Speer, J. / Voss, C. (2007): The Impact of Favouritism on the Business Climate in Jordan, Studies 30, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn.
