News and Press Releases

On April 1, Isabell Stamm took up a professorship in the sociology of organizations at the Technical University of Berlin after having headed the “Business, Ownership, and Family Wealth” research group at the MPIfG from 2021 to March 2025. more

The MPIfG and Universidad Central de Chile (UCEN) have signed a new cooperation agreement aimed at intensifying academic exchange between the two institutions. It builds on a Max Planck Partner Group established in 2020 at UCEN which draws to a close at the end of this year, continuing. The new agreement continues this cooperation and institutionalizing the connection between the two partners. more

Dustin Voss, a senior researcher at the MPIfG, was awarded the Best Paper Prize by the journal Socio-Economic Review in April 2025. In “Sectors Versus Borders: Interest Group Cleavages and Struggles Over Corporate Governance in the Age of Asset Management,” published in 2024 in Socio-Economic Review 22 (3): 1071–94, Voss examines the role of global asset managers such as BlackRock in the context of a reform to co-determination in Germany. more

Tobias Arbogast successfully defended his dissertation, “Navigating by the Stars: The Role of ‘Natural Rates’ in Monetary Policy,” at the University of Cologne at the end of March. In his study, Arbogast examines the significance of the “natural rates” of unemployment, interest, and output for independent central banks’ monetary policy. more

Matthias Thiemann, Professor of European Public Policy at Sciences Po (Paris) and this year’s MPIfG Scholar in Residence, will give a three-part lecture series entitled “Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System” during his three-month research stay in Cologne (April to June 2025). In his lectures, Thiemann will analyze how technocrats and government agencies have influenced the rise of shadow banking more

The MPIfG has a series of lectures by eminent scholars lined up for summer semester 2025. more

The MPIfG welcomes five international scholars to Cologne as visiting researchers in the summer semester of 2025. more