MPIfG Discussion Papers

MPIfG Discussion Papers present results from ongoing research and contribute to current scholarly and public debate. They are subject to internal peer review. Copies are free to order from the Institute or download as PDF files.

2023
The Sunshine Problem: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/6. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
A Bitter Adjustment for German Family Capitalism: Succession and a Changing Ownership Transfer Regime. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/5. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
What Growth Strategies Do Citizens Want? Evidence from a New Survey. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/4. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
Paradigm Shifts in Macrosociology. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/3. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
Turning No Tides: Union Effects on Partisan Preferences and the Working-Class Metamorphosis. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/2. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: An Analysis of Germany’s Largest Privately Held Fortunes in 2019. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/1. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
2022
Das deutsche Wachstumsmodell, 1991–2019. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/9. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
From Media-Party Linkages to Ownership Concentration: Causes of Cross-National Variation in Media Outlets’ Economic Positioning. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/8. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
Verkaufte Zukunft: Dilemmata des globalen Kapitalismus in der Klimakrise. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/7. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
Operationalizing Growth Models. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/6. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
Barta, Zsófia, Lucio Baccaro, Alison Johnston
Signaling Virtue or Vulnerability? The Changing Impact of Exchange Rate Regimes on Government Bond Yields. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/5. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
Private Insurance, Public Welfare, and Financial Markets: Alpine and Maritime Countries in Comparative-Historical Perspective. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/4. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
The Rise and Fall of Social Housing? Housing Decommodification in Long-Run Perspective. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/3. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
No Strings Attached: Corporate Welfare, State Intervention, and the Issue of Conditionality. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/2. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
The Instability of Preferences: Uncertain Futures and the Incommensurable and Intersubjective Nature of Value(s). MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/1. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
2021
Von der Pandemie zu einer Neuordnung der Zeit? Zeitsoziologische Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Zeitlichkeit, Wirtschaft und Staat. MPIfG Discussion Paper 21/7. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2021.
The Organizational Roots of Market Design Failure: Structural Abstraction, the Limits of Hierarchy, and the California Energy Crisis of 2000/01. MPIfG Discussion Paper 21/6. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2021.
Firm Foundations: The Statistical Footprint of Multinational Corporations as a Problem for Political Economy. MPIfG Discussion Paper 21/5. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2021.
The Constrained Politics of Local Public Investments under Cooperative Federalism. MPIfG Discussion Paper 21/4. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2021.
Determinants of Wage (Dis-)Satisfaction: Trade Exposure, Export-Led Growth, and the Irrelevance of Bargaining Structure. MPIfG Discussion Paper 21/3. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2021.
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