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Scientific advisory board
Aleksander Berentsen
Paul Cheshire
Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura
René Frey
Peter Kugler
Rita Schneider-Sliwa
Peter Stalder
Aleksander Berentsen
Aleksander Berentsen is currently Professor of Economics at the WWZ of the University of Basel and guest professor for monetary economics at the University of Zurich. The topics of his latest publications where money, credit and banking, the efficiency in search models of money and the distribution of money holdings and the non-neutrality of money. Member of the commission for «Geldtheorie und Geldpolitik» of the «Verein für Socialpolitik», the board of the «Vereinigung Basler Ökonomen», the European Economic Association, the Society of Economic Dynamics and the Econometric Society.
www.wwz.unibas.ch/witheo/aleks/
Paul Cheshire
Paul Cheshire is Professor of Economic Geography and Convenor of the Department at the London School of Economics (LSE). His research focuses on urban land and housing markets, the economics of planning and European urban and regional development. He has a strong interest in policy analysis and policy related fields. These interests came together in the 1989 book Urban Problems in Western Europe: an economic analysis (Unwin Hyman). He also co-edited with E S Mills the Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics, Vol. 3: Applied Urban Economics, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1999. He was elected vice-President of the European Regional Science Association in 2002. Apart from his academic work he has spent time as an advisor and as a consultant for both the European Commission, the World Bank, the OECD, the UN and other international organisations as well as the UK government.
www.lse.ac.uk/people/p.cheshire@lse.ac.uk/
Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura
Professor of Economic Policy (Dept. of Applied Economy) at the University of Alcalá, Madrid. Also Professor J. Monnet chair ( ‘Economic Policy and the EU’) and Director of the ‘Service Industries Research Laboratory’. Past President of the European Regional Science Association. Consultant for international institutions (E. Commission, OECD, World Bank, BID, Latin-American Govts., etc.). Member of the editorial boards of several international and Spanish journals. Former Secretary of Transport, Tourism and Communications (Spanish Govt).
http://www2.uah.es/economia_aplicada/jrc.htm
René Frey
Professor Frey is an expert in regional politics and political economics, amongst which his input to the IBC Module Accessibility has been highly significant for the works in that specific location factor. Thanks to his retirement from the University in March 2004, he will be able to commit himself even more to various projects of BAK.
www.crema-research.ch/rlf.htm
Peter Kugler
Peter Kugler is currently Professor of Economics at the WWZ of the University of Basel, President of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, Chairman of the Research Commitee on Monetary Economics of the «Verein für Socialpolitik» and external advisor to the SNB research department. The topics of his research are mostly in the fields of Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Applied Econometrics.
www.wwz.unibas.ch/makro/kugler.htm
Rita Schneider-Sliwa
Rita Schneider-Sliwa is currently Professor for Geography and Urban and Regional Studies, director of the institute of geography of the University of Basel. She is member of the board of Association Suisse de Géographie; Landeskomitee International Geographical Union; Association de Géographes Français; Association Interuniversitaire de Géographie de l'Est; International Geographical Union (IGU), Taskforce Megacities; Regio Basiliensis; Geographisch-Ethnologische Gesellschaft Basel; Alemannisches Institut Freiburg i.Br.; Zentrum für Afrikastudien (ZASB), Universität Basel; Newsletter Southasia disasters.net, All India Disaster Mitigation Institut, Ahmedabad. Her research emphasises: Urban and Metropolitan Area development, Urban Policy, Economic Geography, Regional Economic Growth, Competitive Regions, Economic Growth Strategies, Developing Countries and Development Strategies.
www.humgeo.unibas.ch/homepages/schneidersliwa.htm
Peter Stalder
Peter Stalder is currently Economic Advisor of the Research Unit of the Swiss National Bank and teaching various courses at University of Zurich and ETH Zurich (Topics: Econometrics, Labor Market, Macroeconomics).
www.forschung.snb.ch/lehrpersonen/Stalder/stalder.html
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