Profile
Abstract
Fabio Botta is a research associate at the Institute of Public Finance and Public Management and at the Competence Centre Public Sector Economics, Infrastructure and Services of General Interest (KOMKIS). His research focuses on federalism, federal-state financial relations, public infrastructure, municipal climate policy, and other issues of public sustainability.
Professional career
- since 05/2022
Research assistant at Competence Centre Public Sector Economics, Infrastructure and Services of General Interest (KOWID) - since 07/2022
Research assistant at Institute for Public Finance and Public Management
Education
- 10/2019 - 04/2022
Economics / University of Leipzig / Master of Science / Focus Subject: Economic Policy - 04/2015 - 01/2019
Socio-Economic Studies / University of Hamburg / Bachelor of Arts / Focus Subject: Economics - 09/2017 - 04/2018
European Management / Ecole de Management Strasbourg / Two Erasmus semesters with double-degree graduation
- (Municipal) sustainability
- Financial relations between federal and state governments
- Sectoral and regional structural policy
- Public infrastructure
- Comparative Fiscal Federalism. Lessons to be Learned for the EU (CFF)Lenk, ThomasDuration: 11/2019 – 12/2024Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Finanzwissenschaft
- Jahrbuch für öffentliche FinanzenLenk, ThomasDuration: 03/2017 – 12/2023Funded by: Andere öffentliche BereicheInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Finanzwissenschaft
- Kompetenzzentrum für kommunale Infrastruktur SachsenLenk, ThomasDuration: 06/2015 – 12/2025Funded by: Andere sächsische Ministerien (ohne SMWA und SMWK)Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Finanzwissenschaft
- Green Budgeting - A Sustainable Budget for LeipzigHesse, MarioDuration: 12/2023 – 12/2025Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Finanzwissenschaft
- Bender, C.; Botta, F. L.From Save Savings To Big Bangs - German Fiscal Federalism During and Between Economic CrisesIn: Erkoreka, M.; Kölling, M. (Eds.)Fiscal Federalism and Subnational Finance After the Great Recession and Covid-19 Pandemic (2008-2022). Zaragoza: 2023. pp. 76–97.
- Bender, C.; Botta, F. L.; Lenk, T.Changing Europe’s Budgetary FrameworkIntereconomics. 2023. 58 (5). pp. 267–273.DOI: 10.2478/ie-2023-0055
- Botta, F. L.; Bender, C.; Lenk, T.; Hesse, M.Budgetary Framework Reform in Green Transition in the EU and GermanyIntereconomics. 2024. 59 (1). pp. 48–54.DOI: 10.2478/ie-2024-0010
- Lenk, T.; Bender, C.; Botta, F. L.Der bundesstaatliche Finanzausgleich als Mittel zur politischen PositionierungWirtschaftsdienst. 2023. 103 (11). pp. 762–769.DOI: 10.2478/wd-2023-0210
- Botta, F. L.; Dziurla, K.-S.; Hesse, M.; Laforet, L.; Lautenschläger, S.Nachhaltiger Haushalt Leipzig – Good Practices im VergleichKompetenzzentrum Öffentliche Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur und Daseinsvorsorge e. V. (KOWID); InfraRes GmbH. Leipzig. 2023.
Courses in the Master's program at the Faculty of Economic Sciences
- in the summer semester: module "allocative fiscal policy"
- in the winter semester: module "distributive and stability-oriented fiscal policy"