PPE Society Grant for Research on Structural Economic Decline for Reto Bürgisser and Bilyana Petrova

01.09.2026

Reto Bürgisser, together with Bilyana Petrova (Texas Tech University), has been awarded a grant from the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Society for their project Structural Decline and Preferences for Policy Intervention in Socio-Economic Life.

The project examines how residents of economically declining communities in the United States perceive structural economic change and the role of government in responding to it.