Univ.-Prof. Jonas Bunte, Ph.D.

Univ.Prof. Jonas Bunte Ph.D.

jonas.bunte@wu.ac.at

Where to find me?

Building D4 (Entrance B)
Room D4.2.262

Attention: Public access to the Institute is only available through the Department of Socioeconomics front office in Building D4, Level 3.

About me

Jonas B. Bunte is a professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and head of the Institute for International Political Economy. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota and also holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Bayreuth. Prior to joining the Vienna University of Economics and Business, he was an Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research and teaching focus on the politics of money and, in particular, how politics affects finance, debt, trade, and investment. His work has won several awards.

His 2020 book, "Raise the Debt", won the Best Book Award from the IPE section of the International Studies Association (ISA). It also won the Best Book Award from the International Political Economy Society (IPES) in 2021. For his teaching, he has received awards for excellence in teaching at the faculty, university, and state levels. In 2020, he was awarded the "Regents Outstanding Teaching Award" for outstanding teaching achievement in the association of the 14 public universities in the state of Texas.

Teaching

Unfold the bars below to get an overview of the courses offered by Prof. Bunte in the last semesters.

You can also find more information about the course content on the courses page and in the WU Vienna course catalog.

Teaching in the winter semester 2023/24

Date	Begin	End	Room	Building
2023-10-05	12:00	13:30	TC.5.16	TC
2023-10-12	12:00	15:30	D3.0.222	D3
2023-10-19	12:00	15:30	TC.5.16	TC
2023-11-09	12:30	16:00	TC.4.17	TC
2023-11-16	12:00	15:30	TC.5.16	TC
2023-11-23	12:00	15:30	TC.5.16	TC
2023-11-30	12:00	15:30	TC.5.02	TC

Date	Begin	End	Room	Building
2023-12-07	12:30	16:00	TC.4.17	TC
2023-12-14	12:30	16:00	TC.4.02	TC
2023-12-21	12:00	16:00	TC.5.04	TC
2024-01-11	12:00	16:00	TC.5.16	TC
2024-01-18	12:00	16:00	TC.5.16	TC
2024-01-25	12:00	15:30	TC.5.04	TC

Date	Begin	End	Room	Building
2023-10-04	13:30	16:00	TC.5.16	TC
2023-10-11	13:30	16:00	TC.5.16	TC
2023-10-18	13:30	16:00	TC.5.16	TC
2023-11-08	13:00	15:30	D5.1.003	D5
2023-11-15	13:30	16:00	TC.5.16	TC
2023-11-22	13:30	16:00	TC.5.16	TC
2023-11-29	13:30	16:00	TC.5.16	TC
2023-12-06	13:30	16:00	TC.5.16	TC
2023-12-13	13:30	16:00	TC.5.16	TC

Teaching in the summer semester 2023

Date	Begin	End	Room	Building
2023-03-07	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-03-14	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-03-21	10:30	12:00	D2.0.392	D2
2023-03-28	10:30	12:00	D4.0.019	D4
2023-04-11	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-04-18	10:30	12:00	D1.1.074	D1
2023-04-25	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-05-02	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-05-09	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-05-16	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-05-23	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-05-30	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-06-06	10:30	12:00	D4.0.039	D4
2023-06-13	09:00	12:00	D4.0.039	D4

Date	Begin	End	Room	Building
2023-03-07	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-03-14	13:00	14:30	D4.0.019	D4
2023-03-21	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-03-28	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-04-11	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-04-18	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-04-25	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-05-02	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-05-09	13:00	14:30	D4.0.133	D4
2023-05-16	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-05-23	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-05-30	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-06-06	13:00	14:30	D4.0.039	D4
2023-06-13	13:00	16:00	D4.0.039	D4

Teaching in the winter semester 2022/23

Date	Begin	End	Room	Building
2022-10-06	12:00	13:30	TC.4.13	TC
2022-10-13	12:00	15:30	TC.4.13	TC
2022-11-03	12:00	15:30	TC.4.13	TC
2022-11-10	12:00	15:30	TC.4.13	TC
2022-11-17	12:00	15:30	TC.4.13	TC
2022-11-18	13:30	17:00	D4.0.127	D4
2022-11-24	12:00	15:30	TC.4.13	TC

Date	Begin	End	Room	Building
2022-12-01	12:00	15:30	TC.4.14	TC
2022-12-15	12:00	15:30	D5.1.002	D5
2022-12-22	12:00	15:30	TC.4.13	TC
2023-01-12	12:00	16:00	TC.4.15	TC
2023-01-19	12:00	16:00	TC.4.14	TC
2023-01-26	12:00	16:00	TC.4.14	TC

Date	Begin	End	Room	Building
2022-10-05	12:30	15:00	TC.4.17	TC
2022-10-12	10:00	12:30	TC.4.28	TC
2022-11-09	12:30	15:00	TC.4.28	TC
2022-11-16	10:00	12:30	TC.4.28	TC
2022-11-23	10:00	12:30	TC.4.28	TC
2022-11-30	10:00	12:30	TC.4.28	TC
2022-12-07	10:00	12:30	D2.0.334 Teacher Training Lab	D2
2022-12-14	10:00	12:30	TC.4.28	TC
2022-12-21	10:00	12:30	TC.4.28	TC

Publications

Find detailed information about Prof. Bunte's publications and research activities:

Jonas Bunte at WU Research

Book (monograph)

2019	Bunte, Jonas. 2019. Raise the Debt. Read more

Chapter in edited volume

2009	Bunte, Jonas. 2009. Bühne frei für neue Kreditgeber: Chinas Engagement in Afrika In: Schuldenreport 2009. Hrsg. erlassjahr.de - Entwicklung braucht Entschuldung e.V.; Kindernothilfe e.V. Read more
2008	Bunte, Jonas. 2008. The idea of sustainability: Four concepts In: To repay or to develop?. Hrsg. EURODAD European Network on Debt and Development. Read more
2007	Bunte, Jonas. 2007. Schwache können weniger tragen als Starke In: Schulden müssen tragbar sein - Handbuch Schuldentragfähigkeit. Hrsg. erlassjahr.de - Entwicklung braucht Entschuldung e.V. Read more

Journal article

2023	Ratliff Santoro, Lauren, Bunte, Jonas. 2023. What Did You Get? Peers, Information, and Student Exam Performance. Read more
2021	Gray, Thomas, Bunte, Jonas. 2021. The Effect of Grades on Student Performance: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment. Read more
2021	Bunte, Jonas, Gerz, Geoffrey, Zeitz, Alexandra O. 2021. Cascading Noncompliance: Why the Export Credit Regime is Unraveling. Read more
2020	Kinne, Brandon J., Bunte, Jonas. 2020. Guns or Money? Defense Co-operation and Bilateral Lending as Coevolving Networks. Read more
2019	Bunte, Jonas, Connell, Nadine M., Powell, Zachary A. 2019. War Abroad and Homicides at Home: Evidence from the United States. Read more
2019	Bunte, Jonas. 2019. Why Do Students Enroll in Political Science Classes?. Read more
2018	Bunte, Jonas. 2018. Sovereign lending after debt relief. Read more
2018	Bunte, Jonas, Desai, Harsh, Gbala, Kanio, Parks, Bradley, Miller Runfola, Daniel. 2018. Natural resource sector FDI, government policy, and economic growth: Quasi-experimental evidence from Liberia. Read more
2018	Kim, Alisha A., Bunte, Jonas. 2018. Demand for different types of public goods: evidence from Nigeria. Read more
2017	Bunte, Jonas, Kim, Alisha A. 2017. Citizens’ Preferences and the Portfolio of Public Goods: Evidence from Nigeria. Read more
2016	Bunte, Jonas. 2016. Wage Bargaining, Inequality, and the Dutch Disease. Read more
2016	Bunte, Jonas, Vinson, Laura Thaut. 2016. Local power-sharing institutions and interreligious violence in Nigeria. Read more

Working Paper/Preprint

2004	Bunte, Jonas, Gloede, Oliver, Trautfetter, Christoph. 2004. The BOTOS-Approach. An Alternative Approach for Calculating and Achieving a Sustainable Debt Level of HIPC-Countries. Read more

Third-party funded projects

Selling sovereignty

Selling Sovereignty - International Coercion, Debt Relief, and Land Transfers

Over the last decade, developing countries increased their sovereign borrowing from new creditors, such as China, Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and other emerging economies. However, developing countries now struggle to repay these loans and consider alternative strategies for dealing with mounting debt problems. Besides commonly known strategies such as defaulting on debt, seeking debt relief, or implementing austerity policies to manage debt repayment, a new phenomenon has recently made headlines: Borrowing governments giving land to creditor countries to repay loans. Examples include Sri Lanka, where a Chinese state-owned firm obtained a 99-year lease for Hambantota port in 2018. Yet, other governments make different choices. In 2020, Tanzania defaulted on a loan for the Bagayomo Port, rejecting the contract's terms which gave Chinese investors a 99-year lease on the port and a 30-year guarantee on the loan. What explains different debt management strategies by developing countries? We currently cannot answer this question as we lack data on land transactions. Anecdotal evidence suggests that land transactions are common, but no systematic dataset exists that would allow researchers to analyze the causes and consequences of land transactions between sovereign governments. To address these limitations, our project has two goals: 1) to develop theoretical expectations for governments' responses to indebtedness, and 2) to systematically collect data on land transactions which would allow us to study the determinants of governments' debt management decisions. Overall, this project will provide a theoretical framework and new data to examine land transactions in the context of debt diplomacy.

Third-party funder	National Science Foundation
Project funds	EUR 360,000.-
Project period	January 2020 - September 2023
In collaboration with	Patrick Shea Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Houston (USA)

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Univ.-Prof. Jonas Bunte, Ph.D.