That's right, the finance summer school is coming to Europe! June 4-5 at the LSE – applications are open until March 1.

Banque de France's governor just announced a surprise resignation in June. The timing has major political implications: it lets Macron appoint a successor whose 6-year term (ending 2032) will outlast the next president's 5-year mandate (2027-2032), preventing any potential far-right appointee

Brutal must read

With @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social, we are designing a survey experiment with low-income Germans 🇩🇪 Survey folks: any tips on reliable institutes, good practices, or any useful approach for harder-to-reach groups? We are really grateful for any hint or experience 🙏

💥 My article '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝: 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧' is now available (open access) in the 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰! 📄 Find it here: doi.org/10.1017/S175... 📣 @epsrjournal.bsky.social @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.

#job #IA The Centre for Socio-Political Data is looking for a #postdoc to join @egrossman.bsky.social and @jrovny.bsky.social to study the long-term historical evolution of key political issues in the framework of a project on the dynamics of issue evolution funded by OpenAI. Apply👇

🎓 New paper in Political Studies (@polstudies.bsky.social) I examine whether there are gendered differences in how people • evaluate the Bank of England’s performance in controlling, & • perceive and react to inflation more broadly. 🔗 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... tltr? 🧵👇

Our Happy New Year present for 2026: a new, clearer version of our ShinyApp to explore central banker speeches! Please try it out, and reach out if you encounter any problems, or have any suggestions to improve it for your use case (and of course, our underlying CBS database is still open access)

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

Very interesting paper on the rise of design-based empirical work in political science. No surprises: Survey experiments have surged to 45% of designed-based publications, which are highly concentrated in top journals & institutions.

🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Aujourd'hui, 3 députés RN se sont introduits à l'Université avec des journalistes d'extrême-droite, et filmé des étudiant·es malgré leur refus explicite. L'idée ? Prouver notre islamisation totale, en surfant sur une histoire marginale de prières pendant les intercours. Nous sommes très en colère.

Le premier cycle de séminaires du Récri se termine ! Nous avons préparé une journée d’étude le 4/12 pour mettre en valeur la jeune recherche en économie, suivie d’une table ronde sur le pluralisme en action. Programme et inscription gratuite mais nécessaire. recri.hypotheses.org/journee-detu...

🚨New piece forthcoming in @jeppjournal.bsky.social . I tried to prove the ECB is politically responsive… and failed. But the failure turned into the discovery. Read more: Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle... Preprint: osf.io/gxrtc/files/...

One thing I absolutely love in central bank rhetorics: declare a boundary, then elegantly step right over it. Here's Richard W. Fisher (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) on Obama's 2008 fiscal package

I'm so pleased to have this open access article out, "Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions" in Review of International Studies (@risjnl.bsky.social) with Sylvain Maechler!

Journée d'étude | Récri 💭 Le cycle de séminaires Recherche Économie Critique organise 1 journée d'étude qui mettra en lumière la richesse & la diversité des travaux en économie s’inscrivant dans une démarche pluraliste 📆 jeu. 4 déc. dès 8h, à la MSH Paris Nord 👉 www.mshparisnord.fr/event/je-rec...

The political science singularity is here.

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

This paper shows: the 2022 energy crisis led to record global profits for fossil fuel companies. The US gained the most, with claims on US$301 billion, exceeding its US$267 billion investment in low-carbon energy. Half of profits went to the top1%, mainly through stock ownership

After a huge post-election flip in economic perceptions, I thought Democrats and Republicans might be lying to pollsters to send a partisan message — but I was wrong! New in the Journal of Experimental Political Science (open access): doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

📢 New paper out in New Political Economy: "Depoliticising monetary tightening: how the European Central Bank managed the 2021–2023 inflation shock" Thread here below 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Depuis les années 70, les idées d’extrême droite progressent dans les discours des Premiers ministres français qu'ils soient de droite, du centre ou de gauche ! Sous les gouvernements centristes, leur intensité se rapproche désormais de celle des discours… de la guerre d’Algérie🔽

New report out now with @granthamlse.bsky.social CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition" cetex.org/publications...

L’approche néo-schumpeterienne de Philippe Aghion a largement inspiré les politiques économiques en Europe depuis le tournant des années 2000. Et singulièrement celle d’Emmanuel Macron 1/

Hi bsky people - if you care about how the EU seeks to fund all things "social-ecological transformation", which institutional architecture has emerged out of it, and why it is both contested and an unrealized promise: please have a look at our special issue on the politics of sustainable finance 👇

Séance d'envois presse... la date de sortie s'approche !

Come work with us @crestsociology.bsky.social We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies. Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...

En l'honneur de Sarkozy et de son quinquennat qui vient 🎶 open.spotify.com/track/1JIzFh...

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested? Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North. 🧵

Tu te demandes si tu es sociologue, historienne ou économiste ? Tu veux tester tes connaissances sur les locutions latines préférées de Bourdieu, ou connaître la différence entre M. Mauss et K. Moss ? Camille François et Altaïr Desprès ont les réponses à ces questions. Version papier seulement.

Ce que le discours anti-immigré de Starmer produit chez les électeurs anglais 1) baisse des intentions de vote Labour chez leurs propres électeurs 2) aucun gain chez les électeurs de Farage

Actually, research has also challenged the negative correlation between CBI and inflation as a case of confusing cause and effect. CBI is not the *cause* of low inflation. CBI is the *consequence* of a pre-existing sociopolitical consensus on low inflation promoted after the 1970s stagflation.

NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.

En avant première, le programme du séminaire "action publique" que je co-anime avec les collègues de @univ-spn.bsky.social. Au programme, de supers séances sur des thèmes d'actualité comme le mal-logement, les socialisations enfantines ou l'actualité des partis et mouvements politiques.

Central bankers as neutral, science-based policymakers? A new study in @jcms-eu.bsky.social co-authored by @jdeyris.bsky.social and Matthias Thiemann shows that ECB governors, depending on the inflation "season", make selective use of data, theories and indicators to adapt to national preferences. ⤵️

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

Since the start of von der Leyen's second mandate, EU sustainable finance norms face intense dismantling pressures. My new @JEPP article shows this started years ago when the fossil fuel industry “woke up” to the EU Taxonomy. 🧵 #EUTaxonomy #SustainableFinance👇 1/10

Migrating birds, selective blindness, strategic skepticism, weaponized uncertainty – this paper has it all. Do give it a read, it's excellent work.

🚨 New paper accepted in @JCMS_journal! 🚨 "Central bankers as migrating birds: How inflation shapes the rhetorical strategies of doves and hawks" With Bart Stellinga and Matthias Thiemann Paper: doi.org/10.1111/jcms... Blog: lnkd.in/eNAm9NzA

💥 Are gas and nuclear sustainable? The EU says yes, but that’s contested. Clément Fontan unpacks how lobbying shaped the EU Taxonomy and how the Commission managed its own expert group in the process 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very happy to have contributed to this fantastic Handbook of Comparative Political Economy with a chapter on central banks as a key linchpin of capitalist systems. Many thanks to Marino Regini for bringing together such an outstanding set of contributions 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

35,000 speeches from 131 central banks show that #climate communication follows two distinct narratives and significantly affects stock market returns of greener firms. @emacampiglio.bsky.social, @jdeyris.bsky.social, @davideromelli.bsky.social, Ginevra Scalisi cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

VoxEU column on our recent paper on climate-related central bank communication: cepr.org/voxeu/column... @granthamlse.bsky.social @rff.org

New article out on European Economic Review! "Warning words in a warming world: Central bank communication and climate change", with @jdeyris.bsky.social, @davideromelli.bsky.social and G. Scalisi. Available open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.eu... Speech dataset here: cbspeeches.com

🚨 Very happy to announce that our paper "Warning words in a warming world: Central bank communication and climate change" has been accepted in the European Economic Review! Open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.eu... With @emacampiglio.bsky.social @davideromelli.bsky.social and Ginevra Scalisi

@ecoavantgarde.bsky.social publie une étude signée J. de Pierrebourg, É. Monnet et C. Léonard sur l’évolution de la dette publique française depuis 1793. Leur objectif : déplacer le le débat vers une réflexion sur ses modes de financement et de gestion. 👉 www.institutavantgarde.fr/nouvelles-se...