Published

2022

• Why is it so difficult to tax the rich? Evidence from German policy-makers, Journal of European Public Policy, 29(5), 767-786. (together with Paul Marx, Achim Truger und Helena Vitt) 

2021

• Financialization of, not by the state. Exploring changes in the management of public debt and assets across Europe. Review of International Political Economy, 28(4), 820-842. (together with Michael Schwan und Christine Trampusch)
• States' interests as limits to the power of finance: Regulatory reforms in early local government financialization in the US and UK. Regulation & Governance, 15(2), 245-261. (together with Christine Trampusch)
• The political economy of local government financialization and the role of policy diffusion. Regulation & Governance, 15(2), 370-387. (together with Armin Mertens, Christine Trampusch and Rebecca Wangemann)

2018

• From economic gains to social losses. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS), 70(1), 89-116. (together with Agnes Orban and Christine Trampusch) also published as MPIfG Discussion Paper 17/20.

2017 

• Where States and Markets Meet: The Financialisation of Sovereign Debt Management. New Political Economy, 22(3), 273-293 (together with Michael Schwan and Christine Trampusch)

Work in Progress

• Crisis prone public financiers: Coping with competition in the German mortgage banking industry.
• Können Demokratien Reiche höher besteuern? Lehren aus dem Bundestagswahlkampf von 2021. (together with Paul Marx)
• Making the rich pay? Social democracy and wealth taxation in Europe in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. (together with Lea Elsässer and Miriam Rehm)
• Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections. (together with Sebastian Jungkunz und Paul Marx)
• The end of the ‘Tax Increase Taboo’? Left-wing parties and the politics of taxation in comparative perspective. (together with Paul Marx)

Contributions to conferences, workshops and panel organization

2021

• Who Pays for the Crisis? Wealth Taxation in Europe in the Aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics SASE), July 9-11, (Virtual Conference). (together with Lea Elsässer)
• Why is it so difficult to tax the rich? Evidence from German policy-makers, 28. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), September 14-16. (together with Paul Marx)
• Who pays for the crisis? Wealth taxation in Europe in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis, 28. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), September 14-16. (together with Lea Elsässer)

2020

• „Why is it so Difficult to Tax the Rich? Evidence from German Policy-Makers”, The Politics of Taxing the Rich: Declining Tax Rates in Times of Rising Inequality”, Virtual Workshop organized by P. Emmenegger and H.Lierse, November 5-6. (together with Paul Marx)
• „Economic and Political Consequences of Subnational Debt Management Financialization”, Doing Debt: Praxeology of Sovereign Debt in the Long Twentieth Century, Workshop, February 27-28, MPIfG, Cologne.

2019

• “Financialization of the State in Europe”, The Evolving Ecology of the Financial System, May 16-17, MPIfG, Cologne. (together with Schwan, M. and Trampusch, C.)
• “Financialization of the State in Europe”, ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop “Rethinking the Governance of Financial Integration”, April 9-12, Mons. (together with Schwan, M. and Trampusch, C.)

2018

• “The Financialisation of English Local Governments: The Role of Party Politics, the Finance Industry und Policy Diffusion”, Futures of Finance and Society Conference, December 6-7, Edinburgh.
• "The Diffusion of Risky Private Capital Financing across English Municipalities", 25th Council for European Studies (CES) Conference, March 28-30, Chicago. (together with A. Mertens and C. Trampusch)
• “States’ Interests as Limits of Finance Power in Regulatory Financial Market Reforms: The Regulation of Municipal Swaps in the UK and US”, 25th Council for European Studies (CES) Conference, March 28-30, Chicago. (together with C. Trampusch)
• Panel Organization “Financialization and the State: Public Debt, Consumer Credit and Central Banking”, The 25th International Conference of Europeanists of the Council for European Studies, March 28-30, Chicago.

2017

• “Technocrats as a Buffer against Learning in Times of Crisis: Resilient Expectations in the Cases of US and Germany City Swaps”, The 24th International Conference of Europeanists of the Council for European Studies, July 12-14, Glasgow. (together with C. Trampusch)
• “Numbers and Fashion: How the ‚Active Debt Management Story’ Shapes Expectations in German Municipal Finance”, Conference “Experience and Expectation”, Universität Mannheim, Februar 2-4. (together with C. Trampusch)

2016

• “Patient Financiers or Secret Gamblers? - Institutional Change in German Mortgage Banking", The 23rd International Conference of Europeanists of the Council for European Studies, April 14-16, Philadelphia.
• “Municipalities and their Expectations on Pay-Offs of Swap Deals”, Workshop “The Future in Economic Decision Making”, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. “(together with A. Orban and C. Trampusch)

2015

• “The Financialization of Sovereign Debt Management between 1980 and 2010”, Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW), September 21-25, Duisburg. (together with M.Schwan)
• “The Financialization of Sovereign Debt Management between 1980 and 2010”, The 22nd International Conference of Europeanists of the Council for European Studies, July 8-10, Paris. (together with M. Schwan and C. Trampusch)

Research Translation

2022

• „Swaps: Aufstieg und Fall eines Instruments des kommunalen Schuldenmanagements“. To be published in the essay volume of the DFG-research network Doing debt - Praxeologie der Staatsverschuldung im langen 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Stefanie Middendorf, Laura Rischbieter and Jan Logemann

2021

• „Wie wird Besteuerung von Vermögen zu Politik?“ Forschungsblog des Instituts für Soziökonomie. (together with Lea Elsässer and Miriam Rehm)
• „Vermögenssteuer: Warum es nicht gelingt, höhere Steuern für Reiche durchzusetzen.“ (together with Achim Truger, Paul Marx, Helena Vitt)

2020

• „Großtrend Finanzialisierung: Kommunen und die Finanzwelt – Begegnung auf Augenhöhe? Dezernat Zukunft- Institut für Makrofinanzen“ (together with Armin Mertens, Sebastian Möller und Rebecca Wangemann)

MA thesis supervision 2021/2022 (completed)

• Social Upgrading in der globalen Bekleidungsindustrie – Eine vergleichende Fallstudie (Klutzny)
• Due diligence obligations in value chains of German companies – a policy analysis (Behnke)
• Social democratic tax policy in the wake of the financial crisis - A process tracing analysis of the top tax rate increase in the United Kingdom (Katemann)
• Das Fachkräfteeinwanderungsgesetz in Deutschland: Eine prozessanalytische Untersuchung (Lorbach)
• Künstliche Intelligenz in der Kommunalverwaltung – Eine Analyse potenzieller Einführungsbarrieren (Heinen) (gemeinsam mit Prof. Achim Truger)
• Wie kam es zur EU-Aufbau- und Resilienz Fazilität? Eine systematische Prozessanalyse. (Ovelgönne) (gemeinsam mit Prof. Achim Truger)
• Hat sich die wirtschaftspolitische Beratung paradigmatisch gewandelt? Eine Inhaltsanalyse am Beispiel des Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung (Bartel) (gemeinsam Prof. Dr. Achim Truger)

Review Activities

• Cambridge Journal of Economics
• Competition & Change
• Journal of European Public Policy
• Review of International Political Economy
• Socio-Economic Review
• Marietta Blau Stipendium
• Promovierendenförderung des Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerks