Prof. Dr. Vera Troeger

Bio of Vera E. Troeger

(the CV as PDF is avaiable here)

Vera Troeger holds the Chair of Comparative Political Science at the University of Hamburg and serves as Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty for Business, Economics and Social Sciences.

Bevor she moved to Hamburg, she was Professor of Quantitative Political Economy in the department of economics at Warwick University, as well as CI of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). Between 2007 and 2011 she was Director of the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. She previously held positions at the University of Essex, the Max Planck Institute of Economics and the University of Exeter.

Vera just finished a term as president of the European Political Science Association as well as the diversity committee of the EPSA. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the flagship journal of the EPSA – Political Science Research and Methods, and served as associate editor for one of the most highly ranked journals in political science – Political Analysis. In January 2021 she took over as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Politics, one of the 3 top journals in Political Science. She also serves on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, European Journal of Political Research and the Journal of European Public Policy.In addition, she currently serves as an executive council member of the Midwest Political Science Association and the European Political Science Association.

Research Interests

Her research interests lie at the intersection between comparative political economy, labour economics, gender and politics as well as applied quantitative data analysis and political methodology. In particular she studies the impact of parental leave policies on productivity, career development, and the gender pay gap as well as gender in the legislative context. In addition, she studies economic policy diffusion and spill-overs of monetary and tax policy. She also contributes to the field of quantitative political methodology, especially pooled cross-section time series analysis, the trade-off between bias and efficiency in finite sample econometrics and endogeneity issues.

Publicatíons

She published papers on occupational maternity benefits and academic career paths, external effects of currency unions, monetary policy autonomy, international tax competition, time invariant and rarely changing variables in pooled data analysis, budgetary party politics, war and stock market reactions in the American Journal of Political Science, the European Journal for Political Research, the British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, PLOS ONE, Political Analysis, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, European Union Politics, and the Journal of Public Policy.

• Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Universiät Hamburg - since October 2022
• Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Politics  - since January 2021
• Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the University of Cologne (June 2023 - June 2027)
• Member of the WZB Board of Trustees
• President of the European Political Science Association (EPSA) for the 2019–2021 term 
• Founder of AcaFemia - Association for female academics in the social sciences
• Member of the editorial boards of American Political Science Review, European Journal of Political Research and the Journal of European Public Policy