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Gerrit J. Gonschorek

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Dr. Gerrit J. Gonschorek is an economist, particularly interested in good financial governance. He currently works as a Consultant on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations, Governance Global Practice Team, The World Bank, Jakarta Office, Indonesia.

 

He studied economics, specializing in International Economic Policy and Development Economics at the University of Freiburg, Germany, University of Basel, Switzerland and at the University of Virginia, USA. In 2014 he completed his VWL-Diploma (equiv. Master) by conducting a large scale quantitative empirical analysis on "The Determinates of Central-Discretionary Government Transfers, Empirical Evidence from Indonesia’s Deconcentration and Assistance Task Funding". From 2010-2014 he worked as a student assistant at the Walter-Eucken Institute in Freiburg, a leading research institute in the fields of Public Choice and Constitutional Economic Policy under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars P. Feld. During his studies he was also part of an interdisciplinary research project on the "Perceptions of Indonesia's Decentralization-The Role of Performance Based Grants and Participatory Planning in Public Health Service Delivery" in Indonesia. The research project and joined paper with Mareike Well and Sophia Maria Hornbacher was part of the applied interdisciplinary research of the SEA Studies Program in cooperation with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Jakarta, Indonesia.

 

In September 2021 he finished his PhD in economics (summa cum laude), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Schulze, Institute of Economics, Department of International Economic Policy at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His dissertation (The Political Economy of Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Why Institutional Design Matters –Evidence from Decentralized Indonesia) looks at the political economy of government grants and transfers in public infrastructure financing, with a particular focus on Indonesia. Indonesia, often claimed to be characterized by money politics, provides an ideal setting for this analysis, its decentralized fiscal system consists of various institutional intergovernmental transfer designs allocating public funds to a large variety of districts to finance public service provision. His dissertation exploits those distinctive differences between various institutional intergovernmental transfer designs with the aim to develop public funding mechanisms for public service delivery infrastructure that are more needs based oriented and not influenced by political patronage, favoritism, and clientelistic behavior.

 

Dr. Gonschorek’s research has been published in the European Journal of Political Economy, World Development or the Journal of Southeast Asian Economies.

 

For more information please find a CV (including a list of publications) here.