Dr. Vanessa Liebert

Tel.: +49 (0) 421 / 200 48 91
Fax: +49 (0) 421 / 200 49 48 91
v.liebert@jacobs-university.de

Biography

Since May 2011 Dr. Vanessa Liebert works as post-doctoral fellow at Jacobs University Bremen and is associated researcher to the Bremer Energie Institut. Before joining Jacobs University she has been working as research associate at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen in a project on airport benchmarking funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany. In her PhD thesis Vanessa improved the utilization of non-parametric airport benchmarking approaches for managerial purposes and furthered the understanding of the governance effects in the airport industry. Her general research interests include issues in industrial economics, regulation theory and operations research of network industries with a special focus on airports and electricity markets.

CV

Career
seit 05/2011 Postdoctoral fellow at Jacobs University Bremen and associated researcher at the Bremer Energie Institut
06/2005 - 07/2009 Research Associate at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen ("German Airport Performance")
10/2004 - 05/2005 Internship at Hamburg Airport (Corporate Controlling)
05/2004 - 07/2004 Aviation Data Analyst at Transport Research Laboratory, UK

Academic education
2007 - 2011 Ph.D. in Economics at Jacobs University Bremen
1999 - 2004 Diploma Degree (Master equivalent) in Economics at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen
2001 - 2002 B.A. in Business Economics at the University of Hertfordshire, Hertford, UK

Main research interests
  • Energy Economics
    • Market analysis
    • Instruments of market supervision
Affiliations and memberships
Member of the German Aviation Research Society (GARS)
Publications
Liebert, V., 2011. Airport Benchmarking: An Efficiency Analysis of European Airports from an Economic and Managerial Perspective, Doctoral Dissertation, Jacobs University Bremen.
Liebert, V.; Adler, N., 2011. Joint Impact of Competition, Ownership Form and Economic Regulation on Airport Performance, mimeo, Jacobs University Bremen.
Liebert, V.; Niemeier, H.-M. 2011. Benchmarking of Airports - A Critical Assessment, Proceedings of the World Conference on Transport Research.
Adler, N., Liebert, V.; Yazhemsky, E. 2010. Benchmarking Airports from a Managerial Perspective, mimeo, Jacobs University Bremen.
Reinhold, A., Niemeier, H., Kamp, V.; Müller, J. 2010. An evaluation of yardstick regulation for European airports, Journal of Air Transport Management, 16, 74-80.
Kamp, V., Niemeier, H.M.; Müller, J. 2007. What can be learned from benchmarking studies? Examining the apparent poor performance of German airports, Journal of Airport Management, 1 (3), 294–308.
Kamp, V. 2007. Airport benchmarking – An empirical research on the performance measurement of German airports with data envelopment analysis, Aerlines e-zine edition, Issue 36.