EGB faculty wins DKK 3 million grant

Benjamin Egerod and Jan Stuckatz, both assistant professors at EGB, have received a grant of 3,162,875 DKK from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Their project examines the revolving door phenomenon, where civil servants and politicians leave the public sector to work in private companies. The research focuses on how political institutions may influence the significance of this phenomenon across Europe.

"The project is important because the revolving door is a recurring topic with many assumptions about it - primarily as something negative and bordering on corruption. But in reality, we know very little about it," says Benjamin Egerod. He continues: "In this project, we will map the extent of the phenomenon, investigate what companies use revolving door personnel for, and determine if these companies can use them to gain advantages from the public sector that they would otherwise not have access to."

The project will develop a comprehensive database tracking revolving door movements across 28 European countries as well as the US and conduct a survey experiment with business professionals to establish causal relationships. Additionally, it will investigate how institutional factors affect the influence of revolving door personnel on companies.