In 1999, the ECB realized that its toolkit did not fit the structure of the monetary union it found itself in charge of. So it chose to try and change that structure – by promoting structural reforms. With @donatodc.bsky.social & @sebdiessner.bsky.social, now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social vol 24.

A much needed discussion on the accountability dimension of industrial policy. Thanks @christyapetit.bsky.social and @sebdiessner.bsky.social for their insightful contribution to our forthcoming @govjournal.bsky.social SI on the political foundations of market interventionism. Stay tuned for more ☺️

💥Out in @govjournal.bsky.social Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Assessing the Democratic Accountability of Europe's New Industrial Policy With @christyapetit.bsky.social we ask "who controls the controllers?" in the EU's industrial policy regime OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Honoured to be a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI this academic year and looking forward to the wonderful intellectual environment of the Robert Schuman Centre!

💥 New article out @reggovjournal.bsky.social Skill-Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden & Britain @ndurazzi.bsky.social @federicofiletti.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social David Hope, Hanna Kleider onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate. Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics. We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New open access article 🚨 Out now in Journal of Financial Regulation with Alex Goghie and Matteo Giordano 'Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity' academic.oup.com/jfr/advance-...

The PEPP group at Leiden University’s Institute of Public Administration is pleased to announce the next PE_PP Talk by Aneta Spendzharova (Maastricht University) on May 12! Details below Please PM if interested @sebdiessner.bsky.social @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @alexandreafonso.bsky.social

Had a great time in Scotland for our pilot within the Leiden-Edinburgh "Global Futures Hub" with @alexandreafonso.bsky.social @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @eawolff.bsky.social @fbulfone.bsky.social Thanks for having us @philiprathgeb.bsky.social @lukaslehner.bsky.social Daniel Clegg Elke Heins!

🗣️ we have a new paper and new dataset just out on the transition to the knowledge economy in advanced democracies - both OA, available here academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... and here www.knowledge-economy-index.com

Excited to share my latest publication, written with colleagues from the New Economics Foundation (@sebmang.bsky.social and al) exploring why monetary and fiscal policies need to work together to improve inflation management. 🧵👇 #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy #CentralBanks

📢 We have an exciting event on *The Governance of Inflation* coming up in our Political Economy & Public Policy seminar on March 21st in The Hague @fggaleiden.bsky.social With @jvtk.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @lucacigna.bsky.social Details 👇 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

Huge thanks to @sebdiessner.bsky.social for his thoughtful review and insights! It’s an honor to have our books discussed so carefully alongside those of great colleagues. Looking forward to more conversations on teaching political economy ... esp in these turbulent times! #EuropeanPoliticalEconomy

Interested in teaching EU governance, political economy and crises—but don't know where to start? Then this one’s for you doi.org/10.1080/0703... Thanks to 3 excellent recent volumes by @manuelamoschella.bsky.social+co-authors @amyverdun.bsky.social @achimhurrelmann.bsky.social A Bongardt/F Torres

Join us for the next PE_PP talk organized by the Political Economy and Public Policy group at Leiden University's Institute of Public Administration! On March 21, @donatodc.bsky.social, @lucacigna.bsky.social and @jvtk.bsky.social will be presenting on the governance of inflation. Details 🔽

Great resource if you are planning to teach about European Political Economy!

Thanks Sebastian for this review - and also to the shout-out to the EU Governance Videos (carleton.ca/eu-governanc...)! Your suggestions for topics to be covered in the next edition are very well taken.

Interested in teaching EU governance, political economy and crises—but don't know where to start? Then this one’s for you doi.org/10.1080/0703... Thanks to 3 excellent recent volumes by @manuelamoschella.bsky.social+co-authors @amyverdun.bsky.social @achimhurrelmann.bsky.social A Bongardt/F Torres

📢 We have an exciting event on *The Governance of Inflation* coming up in our Political Economy & Public Policy seminar on March 21st in The Hague @fggaleiden.bsky.social With @jvtk.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @lucacigna.bsky.social Details 👇 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

Much enjoyed the launch of @unileiden.bsky.social's Europe Hub in Brussels at @europarl.europa.eu today With great contributions from - and very many thanks to - Leiden colleagues & organizers at the EP's Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/even...

Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this. 🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money. A thread 🧵

Is the European Central Bank losing its independence by getting too political? Our new open access highlights how the ECB’s increasing involvement in crises and political issues has led to debates about its legitimacy and the need for stronger accountability. Issue: shortt.link/pag386bsky

📊 Last week, we released our new central bank speeches database, which almost doubles the coverage of the @BIS_org database. We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)

Had a really excellent time at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna this past Monday discussing @ankehassel.bsky.social's recent research works on the political economy of growth & welfare with some wonderful colleagues. Engaging and thought-provoking exchanges - thanks so much for hosting us!

Back from @weareceu.bsky.social after a wonderful workshop on recent works by @ankehassel.bsky.social in the context of her Karl Polanyi Visiting Professorship, incl. •the much-anticipated 2nd volume of Growth & Welfare with @bpalier.bsky.social •joint work with @donatodc.bsky.social & Martin Höpner

New article on Fast Track by @sebdiessner.bsky.social @ndurazzi.bsky.social and David Hope, “Embedding Skill Bias: Technology, Institutions, and Inequality in Wages and Benefits,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

Are you also still baffled by Trump's inauguration 🇺🇸, wondering what he will do next, how successful his policies will be and (frankly) why he is even there? Our new book "Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality", released today, can help with that! (Link below)

Thank you so much, Sebastian, for your kind and thoughtful comments. It was a great workshop. Congratulations to the Karl Polanyi Society, the university of Vienna and CEU for hosting me! @sebdiessner.bsky.social

Just out 🍃 first research output of a new agenda on the political economy of, and capitalist varieties in, the green transition 🏭👩‍🏭 Born from a joint effort with @donatodc.bsky.social and @ndurazzi.bsky.social 🚀 leap.luiss.it/wp-content/u...

Back from @weareceu.bsky.social after a wonderful workshop on recent works by @ankehassel.bsky.social in the context of her Karl Polanyi Visiting Professorship, incl. •the much-anticipated 2nd volume of Growth & Welfare with @bpalier.bsky.social •joint work with @donatodc.bsky.social & Martin Höpner

How widely (or not) the benefits of new technologies like AI are distributed is a crucial political-economy question. This paper finds evidence that collective wage bargaining helps ensure that the gains are not captured primarily by capital owners and high-skill workers. @wzwysen.bsky.social

with dear friends and brilliant co-authors @sebdiessner.bsky.social and David Hope, we have a new paper soon out in @comppol.bsky.social

Do you lose sleep over the future of the Economic and Monetary Union? Do you know what's wrong with it? Have you any idea how to fix it? Might you have a working paper on the matter? Then we want to hear from you! Submit proposals & come share your ideas for the EUI Schuman Centre EMU Lab!

🚨 New working paper with Christy Ann Petit for the LUHNIP WP series by @donatodc.bsky.social & colleagues ⚙️"Strengthening the Democratic Accountability of the EU’s New Industrial Policy through Parliamentary Oversight" 📖 Link: bit.ly/3Z6CJRK

Not happy this became so timely, but here we are. It's a very sharp piece, underpinned by two (!) new working papers: One tests the 'cost shocks as coordinators' mechanism behind sellers' inflation; the other traces fossil fuel profits to shareholders. We just uploaded both, links below.

This summer, I read Manuela Moschella's new book "Unexpected Revolutionaries", and wrote a short review for Competition and Change. Spoiler alert: it's a *great* book that provides a refreshing account of central banking transformations in the past 15 years journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

As promised (threatened?), I made a starter pack of heterodox and political economists! You'll see a range of pluralist theories here, as well as some heterodox-friendly economists that may be more mainstream. go.bsky.app/J86RtKh

Here is one for the EU central banking geeks around here 🤓💶 :-) bsky.app/profile/did:...

Today the ECB's revised operational framework comes into force 💸 What's a central bank's operational framework for? Why is the ECB's revision far from ideal? How should it be improved? Check out our report with @jordischroeder.bsky.social & Uuree Batsaikhan www.datocms-assets.com/132494/17212...

Online first: "Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision" by @adinaakbik.bsky.social & @sebdiessner.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... #Polisky

3️⃣ Promouvoir la coopération entre politiques budgétaire et monétaire pour mettre en œuvre une politique monétaire plus verte et plus démocratique. Avec @sebdiessner.bsky.social www.institutavantgarde.fr/renforcer-la...

Notre dossier de propositions pour les européennes est disponible ! 1️⃣Nous devons investir 375 Md€ d'ici 2030 2️⃣82 % d'endettement public moyen 3️⃣Le rythme de réduction des émissions doit tripler Comment éviter d'avoir à choisir entre épuisement budgétaire et planétaire ? 👇

🚨 New article 📯 In 1999, the ECB realized that its map did not fit the territory. What gives? For a long time, it tried to reshape the territory. With @donatodc.bsky.social & @sebdiessner.bsky.social we trace how & why it went so out of its way. #ipesky #polisky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interested in the PE of contested transitions? Join our workshop at the Politicologen Etmaal in beautiful Maastricht this June: politicologenetmaal.eu Co-organised by @claraweinhardt.bsky.social @sebdiessner.bsky.social @fbulfone.bsky.social, Ferdi de Ville, Lukas Linsi and Aneta Spendzharova!

Come work with us! 📢 Fully-funded PhD position (4 years) at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University on political economy of the green and digital transition Deadline: March 31 🚨 Supervised by the amazing @fbulfone.bsky.social & myself www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Jobs 📣 Jobs 📣 Jobs 📣 3 fully-funded PhD positions in Political Science (4 years) @ Leiden University, working on cultural stereotypes in #EU governance 2 positions are attached to my ERC project #EUROTYPES, focused on EU agencies: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... EUsky polisky

Just got the proofs, should be online very soon and out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social! Keynes and politics of time, or why we are not all dead in the long run.

Publication day! In collaboration with @boelleu.bsky.social , this report delves into: 🟢Why climate change matters for the ECB's mandate 🟢What has the ECB done so far, and why it is insufficient 🟢What policy changes can be implemented for a greener ECB 👉 www.positivemoney.eu/wp-content/u...