- Determinants of repression
- Political instability and multinational businesses
- Protest data and trends
Katharina Pfaff left PRIO in 2021. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Katharina Pfaff
Interests and experience
Katharina Pfaff is a postdoctoral researcher at Vienna University of Economics and Business. In her most recent research project, she and her co-authors analyze which political factors affect the supply and demand of protests against Covid-19 containment policies
Working experience
2016 - present: postdoctoral researcher (Department Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Education
2016: PhD, Economics (Graduate School of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg / Department of Government, University of Essex)
2013: MA, International Economics (University of Göttingen / Catholic University of Leuven)
2011: BSc, International Economics (University of Tübingen / University of St. Gallen)
Languages spoken
English, German, basic Spanish, Italian and French
Projects
Conflict Trends
Latest publications
What Affects the Distribution of Protests against Coronavirus Measures?
Conflict Trends
Private provision of public goods and political survival: Rail transport in four European democracies in the 20th century
Journal article in Research in Transportation Economics
The strategy of protest against Covid‐19 containment policies in Germany
Journal article in Social Science Quarterly
Querdenken: the German anti-lockdown movement that thrives on public distrust
Popular article in LSE Blog
Protest Against COVID-19 Containment Policies in European Countries
Journal article in Protest Against COVID-19 Containment Policies in European Countries
Differences matter: the effect of coup types on physical integrity rights
Journal article in European Journal of Political Economy
Assessing the risk of pre-existing grievances in non-democracies: The conditional effect of natural disasters on repression
Journal article in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Still Tools of Repression? Re-Assessing the Effect of Arms Imports on Physical Integrity Rights
Conference paper
Banking crises and human rights
Journal article in Applied Economic Letters
Human Rights under Extreme Conditions
PhD thesis