MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025
Matthias Thiemann
Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris.
Matthias Thiemann is a sociologist with close affinities to political economy. Having graduated from Columbia University in 2012, he held a postdoc position at ESSEC Business School before becoming Assistant Professor of the Sociology of Money, Banking and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. He has been Professor of European Public Policy at Sciences Po since 2017. His work has been devoted to mainly two topics. On the one hand, he analyzes the attempts of financial regulators in Europe and the US to control the risk-taking behavior of agents in the financial industry – an attempt complicated by the fact that these agents gain from evading such control. On the other hand, Matthias Thiemann investigates post-crisis regulatory changes in the US and Europe, asking why certain ideas that gained prominence post-crisis are translated into policy tools, while others are eschewed by policy makers. Methodologically, he draws on expert interviews and document analysis, but also engages in large-N text analysis, such as citation network analysis and topic modeling.
Selected publications
Books
Thiemann, Matthias. 2024. Taming the Cycles of Finance? Central Banks and the Macroprudential Shift in Financial Regulation. Cambridge University Press.
Mertens, Daniel, Matthias Thiemann, and Peter Volberding (eds). 2021. The Reinvention of Development Banking in the European Union: Industrial Policy in the Single Market and the Emergence of a Field. Oxford University Press.
Thiemann, Matthias. 2018. The Growth of Shadow Banking: A Comparative Institutional Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
Articles
Coombs, N. and Matthias Thiemann. 2022. Recentering Central Banks: Theorizing State-Economy boundaries as Central Bank Effects. Economy and Society 51(4), 535–558.
Thiemann, Matthias, C Raquel-Melches, and Edin Ibrocevic. 2021. Measuring and Mitigating Systemic Risks: How New Alliances of Central Bank and Academic Economists Forge the Transnational Macroprudential Agenda. Review of International Political Economy .
Thiemann, Matthias, and J Lepoutre. 2017. Stitched on the Edge: Rule Evasion, Regulatory Embeddedness, and the Evolution of Markets. American Journal of Sociology 122(6), 1775–1821.