Rate My Professor Mark Hallerberg

Mark Hallerberg is Dean of Research and Faculty and Professor of Public Management and Political Economy at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, where he has been a professor since 2007 and dean since 2017. His academic qualifications include a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (1995 and 1991, respectively), and a B.A. in International Relations from Grinnell College (1989). Throughout his career, he held positions as Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University from 2004 to 2007, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2004, Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1996 to 1999, and Co-Director of the European Union Center, University System of Georgia from 1998 to 1999.

Hallerberg specializes in political economy, focusing on fiscal governance and policy in the European Union and beyond. His major works include the seminal book "Fiscal Governance in Europe" (Cambridge University Press, 2009), co-authored with Rolf Strauch and Jürgen von Hagen, which examines fiscal rules and governance structures across Europe; "Domestic Budgets in a United Europe: Fiscal Governance from the End of Bretton Woods to EMU" (Cornell University Press, 2004); and highly regarded papers such as "The design of fiscal rules and forms of governance in European Union countries" (European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, co-authored with Rolf Strauch and Jürgen von Hagen), "Electoral institutions, cabinet negotiations, and budget deficits within the European Union" (1997), "Remodeling the competition for capital: How domestic politics erases the race to the bottom" (American Political Science Review, 2004), "Mobile capital, domestic institutions, and electorally induced monetary and fiscal policy" (American Political Science Review, 2000, with William Roberts Clark), "Veto players and the choice of monetary institutions" (International Organization, 2002), and more recent contributions like "Explaining instability in the Stability and Growth Pact" (Comparative Political Studies, 2016, with Nicole Baerg) and "Explaining changes in tax burdens in Latin America" (European Journal of Political Economy, 2017, with Carlos Scartascini). Hallerberg received the German Marshall Fund of the United States Fellowship in 2001.