Forschungsbereich Finanzwissenschaft und Infrastrukturpolitik
IFIP-Jahrestagung 2017 / IFIP Annual Conference 2017 "The Res Publica. Re-assessing the role of the public sector and the public interest"
- TU Wien, Lecture Hall W5, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna
Thursday, 8 June 2017, 18:00 - 20:00 Presentation of the book "Public or Private Goods? Redefining Res Publica" and of the "Egon Matzner Prize of Socio-Economics 2017"
- Friday, 9 June 2017, 09:00 - 16:30 Conference presentations
Conference organized by
Centre of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy (IFIP), Department of Spatial Planning, Vienna University of Technology
in cooperation with
USE, Utrecht School of Economics, The Netherlands, and
EAEPE, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
Content of the Annual Conference
1. What is public and why should something be in public responsibility? Which criteria, and theoretical and empirical arguments are relevant to determine
whether the provision, and fi nancing of a good is a public or private responsibility, or a mixture of both?
2. Who determines what is public and what is private? Which actors do what? And why are they doing this? How is the public intervention justifi ed?
How can one decide whether there is a role for public intervention, and given there is a role for public intervention, who intervenes and how?“
(Excerpt from the introduction to the book „Public or Private Goods? Redefining Res Publica“, ed. B. Unger, D. v.d. Linde, M. Getzner, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2017)
Programme | Presenter | Book and Award Presentation |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Rudolf SCHEUVENS Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning Vienna University of Technology | Welcome |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | Manuel SCHOLZ-WÄCKERLE Department of Socioeconomics Vienna University of Economics and Business; EAEPE | Welcome |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Brigitte UNGER Utrecht School of Economics University of Utrecht (NL) | "The shift from the public to the private" |
| 18:45 - 19:00 | Daan van der LINDE Utrecht School of Economics University of Utrecht (NL) | "Conceptualising shifts from the private to the public" |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Michael GETZNER Vienna University of Technology | "Policy implications: a differentiated picture of the private and the public" |
| 19:15 - 19:45 | Gabriele MATZNER-HOLZER, Wolfgang BLAAS | Presentation of the laureate of the "Egon Matzner Prize of Socio-Economics 2017": Laudatio |
| 19:45 - 20:15 | Svenja FLECHTNER | Presentation of the laureate of the "Egon Matzner Prize of Socio-Economics 2017": "Aspirations and the persistence of poverty and inequalities" (german) |
| 20:15 | Come-together: Snacks and Drinks | |
Programme | Presenter | IFIP Annual Conference 2017 |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Michael GETZNER (Fachbereich Finanzwissenschaft und Infrastrukturpolitik, TU Wien) | Welcome |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Dieter PLEHWE Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (DE) | "Economists and the Welfare State" (Keynote) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Brigitte UNGER Utrecht School of Economics, University of Utrecht (NL) | "Core functions of the ‚Res Publica´" |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 - 12:30 | Gerlinde GUTHEIL-KNOPP-KIRCHWALD Grazia WITHALM Ian KOETSIER Comments by: Wilfried SCHÖNBÄCK, Dieter PLEHWE | "Social housing policies: A Res Publica?" (Gutheil, Kadi) "Funding of Protected Areas: A purely Public Task?" (Withalm) "Res Publica: Natural disasters and (future) public debt" (Koetsier) Panel discussion with authors of the book „Public or Private Goods? Redefining Res Publica“ |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Lukas HAFFERT University of Zurich (CH) | "The effects of consolidation programs on public spending" |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Judith CLIFTON University of Cantabria (ES) | "Reflections on recent examples of public-private politics" |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Michael GETZNER | Final discussion, wrap-up and closing |
Photos | |||
| Thursday, 8 June | |||
| Presentation Michael GETZNER |  | Presentation Manuel SCHOLZ-WÄCKERLE |  |
| Presentation Brigitte UNGER |  | Laudatio and presentation of the the "Egon Matzner Prize of Socio-Economics 2017"-lauriate |  |
| Presentation by EMP2017-lauriate Svenja Flechtner |  | Publication desk |  |
| Friday, 9 June | |||
| Welcome Michael GETZNER |  | Key Note Dieter PLEHWE |  |
| Presentation Brigitte UNGER |  | Presentation Gerlinde GUTHEIL-KNOPP-KIRCHWALD |  |
| Presentation Grazia WITHALM |  | Presentation Ian KOETSIER |  |
| Comments Wilfried SCHÖNBÄCK |  | Comments Dieter PLEHWE |  |
| Discussion |  | Discussion |  |
| Presentation Lukas HAFFERT |  | Presentation Judith CLIFTON |  |
| Photos: IFIP, TU Wien, 2017. |