Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE)
Past seminars
January 21, 2021, 5 pm CET | 11 am EST
Employer Organization and the Law: Historical Legacies and the Long Shadow of the American Courts
Kathleen Thelen
February 18, 2021, 5 pm CET | 11 am EST
Testing Negative: The Non-Consequences of COVID-19 on Mass Political Attitudes
Jack Blumenau, Timothy Hicks, Alan Jacobs, Scott Matthews, and Tom O’Grady
March 18, 2021, 5 pm CET | 12 pm EST
Growing Differently? Financial Cycles, Austerity, and Competitiveness in Growth Models since the Global Financial Crisis
Karsten Kohler and Engelbert Stockhammer
April 22, 2021, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EST
Technological Risk and Policy Preferences
Aina Gallego, Alexander Kuo, Pepe Fernández-Albertos, and Dulce Manzano
May 5, 2021, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EST
The Political Economy of Covid-19
Joint session, MAX CPE and Virtual Working Group on Comparative Political Economy
May 20, 2021, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EST
Extroverted Financialization: How US Finance Shapes European Banking
Mareike Beck
June 17, 2021, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EST
The Politics of the Minimum Wage: Explaining Introduction and Levels
Georg Picot and Michal Kozak
July 15, 2021, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EST
Pragmatic Principles, Stereotypes and Uncertainty: How Sovereign Rating Reports Discuss Politics and Policy in Developed Countries
Zsofia Barta and Alison Johnston
September 22, 2021, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EDT
Monopoly Politics: Price Competition, Learning, and the Evolution of Policy Regimes
Erik Peinert
September 28, 2021, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EDT
Who Governs the Eurozone? The Political Economy of Fiscal Rules
Special roundtable jointly organized with the New Economics Foundation
October 20, 2021, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EDT
A Comparative Political History of the Progressive Dilemma
Johannes Lindvall and Frida Boräng
November 17, 2021, 5 pm CET | 11 pm EST
Dealing with the Consequences of Technological Change: Policy Preferences and Institutional Context
Marius Busemeyer and Tobias Tober
December 15, 2021, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EST
What Difference Does the Framing of a Crisis Make to EU Solidarity?
Waltraud Schelkle, Federico Maria Ferrara, and Zbigniew Truchlewski
January 19, 2022, 5 pm CET | 11 am EST
Business Power, Right-Wing Populism and Noisy Politics: Lessons from Brexit and Swiss Referendums
Daniel Kinderman
February 16, 2022, 5 pm CET | 11 am EST
Product Markets and Working Conditions on International and Regional Platforms: A Study in Poland and Italy
Valeria Pulignano, Karol Muszyński, and Claudia Marà
March 16, 2022, 5 pm CET | 12 pm EDT
Legislators' Estimation of Voters' Redistributive Preferences
Christian Breunig, Luzia Helfer, and Julie Sevenans
April 20, 2022, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EDT
Stealthy State Investment in an Age of Austerity: The Danish State Guarantee Model and Infrastructural Mega Projects
Oddný Helgadóttir and Lene Tolstrup Christensen
May 25, 2022, 5 pm CEST | 11 am EDT
Emigration and Populism
Rafaela Dancygier
October 12, 2022, 4 pm CET | 10 am EST
Grey Power and Economic Performance
Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford)
November 9, 2022, 4 pm CET | 10 am EST
Economic Shocks and Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence
Leonardo Baccini (McGill University), Mattia Guidi (University of Siena), and Arlo Poletti (University of Trento)
January 11, 2023, 4 pm CET | 10 am EST
Climate Policy Costs and Backlash against International Cooperation
Patrick Bayer (University of Strathclyde) and Federica Genovese (University of Essex)
February 22, 2023, 4 pm CET | 10 am EST
Unions Divided: Labor Union Attitudes towards the European Unions’ Adequate Minimum Wage Directive
Thomas Paster, Eriks Ozols, Stefan Ivanov Hristov, Rose Lutz, and Ana Pacheco Leal (Roskilde University)
March 1, 2023, 4 pm CET | 10 am EST
Seeing Health Inequalities Like a State: Cross-National and Over-Time Differences in National Health Data Collection Strategies
Julia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)
March 22, 2023, 4 pm CET | 11 am EDT
Employment Without Mobility? Why Social Investment Policies Fail Immigrants
Briitta van Staalduinen (Harvard University)
April 19, 2023, 4 pm CEST | 10 am EDT
Political Opposition to Foreign Home Ownership
Hannah Loeffler and Amy Pond (TU Munich)
May 24, 2023, 4 pm CEST | 10 am EDT
Social Reproduction and Growth Models: A Missing Link
Dorothee Bohle (University of Vienna)
June 14, 2023, 4 pm CEST | 10 am EDT
Explaining Differences in Free Riding Beliefs: A Preliminary Theory
Charlotte Cavaillé (University of Michigan)
July 5, 2023, 4 pm CEST | 10 am EDT
A Constructivist Institutionalist Approach to European Capitalist Restructuring: ECB Ideas on Fiscal Policy and Structural Reforms
Ben Clift (University of Warwick) and Iacopo Mugnai (Birbeck College, University of London)
October 18, 2023 | 3 pm CEST / 9 am EDT
David versus Goliath: The Political Economy of the Superstar and the Small Firm
Tommaso Crescioli (LSE) and Toon Van Overbeke (Maastricht University)
November 22, 2023 | 3 pm CET / 9 am EST
Uneven Responsiveness: Public Opinion, Fiscal Austerity, and Redistributive Policy Shifts
in Western Europe since 2008
Jonas Pontusson, Jan Rosset, and Jérémie Poltier (University of Geneva)
December 13, 2023 | 3 pm CET / 9 am EST
The Politics of Winter-Tourism-Led Growth under Vulnerable Climate Conditions
Valentina Außerladscheider (University of Vienna)
January 17, 2024 | 3pm CET / 9 am EST
The Decarbonization Bargain: How the Decarbonizable Sector Shapes Climate Politics
Nils Kupzok and Jonas Nahm (SAIS Johns Hopkins)
February 14, 2024 | 3 pm CET / 9 am EST
Intermittent Dictators: Arguments on Democracy, Finance, and Central Banking with Application
to the Truss Premiership
David Woodruff (LSE)
March 20, 2024 | 3 pm CET / 9 am EST
So Right It’s Wrong? The Impact of Far-Right Politics on Right Executives’ Bond Market Advantage
Alison Johnston (Oregon State University)
April 17, 2024 | 3 pm CEST / 9 am EDT
EU Economic Policy on Social Reproduction: A Differentiated Impact for East and West?
Elena Zacharenko (Tampere University)
May 29, 2024 | 3 pm CEST / 9 am EDT
Investing in Migration: Public Support for Granting Migrants and Refugees Social Investment Policies
Gianna Maria Eick (University of Amsterdam) and Marius R. Busemeyer (University of Konstanz)
June 19, 2024 | 3 pm CEST / 9 am EDT
Technology, Migrants, or Offshoring: How the Structure of Risk Perceptions Explains Policy Preferences
Licia Bobzien (Hertie School/University of Potsdam), Fabian Kalleitner (FU Berlin),
and Lukas Schlogl (University of Vienna)
July 10, 2024 | 3 pm CEST / 9 am EDT
Rethinking Predation under Financialization through the History of Subprime Mortgages: A Case of Raiding Finance
Pasquale Emanuele De Girolamo (University of Florence)
February 26, 2025 | 13:00
Peripheral Growth Models and the Global Economy: A Second Image IPE Perspective
Andreas Nölke, Michael Schedelik (Goethe University Frankfurt)
March 26, 2025 | 15:30
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Clara Mattei (Center for Heterodox Economics, The University of Tulsa)
April 23, 2025 | 13:00
Lay of the Land: Economic Expertise in an Era of Fragmented Authority
Oddny Helgadottir, Pedro Monteiro (Copenhagen Business School)
May 14, 2025 | 15:30
Development Disrupted
Yuen Yuen Ang (Johns Hopkins University)
June 4, 2025 | 13:00
EU Industrial Policy: Crowding in Financial Capital, Crowding Out Democratic Oversight
Angela Wigger (Radboud University)