Summaery 2011

Urban Essentials - History of European Infrastructure Finance

Fakultät: Bauingenieurwesen, Studiengang: Management [Bau, Immobilien, Infrastruktur] (M.Sc.)

The student´s objectives within their Master research project was particularly focused on the questions of how infrastructure provisioning and financing has been realised in different time periods across diverse regions and under different financial, socio-economic and regulatory regimes in the European context. Over the long-term, the finance of infrastructure has been organised in a myriad of different ways from being financed by fully private to fully public institutions. Though no country is completely alike, there have been considerable commonalities across the European context. The student´s research project aims to collect and analyse data on infrastructure finance over the long-term, and on this basis identify phases in finance infrastructure across sectors, countries, financial as well as other regulatory and socio-economic institutions. This goes along with the analyses of the outcomes of public engagement in public infrastructure provisioning in Europe as well as with an identification and exploration of European best practice examples for infrastructure financing that provide lessons learnt for contemporary policy debates and large scale infrastructure projects (i.e. Stuttgart 21, Trans European Network in Transport and Energy, etc).