Elsa Clara Massoc
@elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social
Research in international political economy, green industrial policy, finance and politics. University of St Gallen - UC Berkeley PhD
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♨️Hot off the press
The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online
Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇
doi.org/10.1177/1024...
The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online
Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇
doi.org/10.1177/1024...
August 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
♨️Hot off the press
The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online
Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇
doi.org/10.1177/1024...
The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online
Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇
doi.org/10.1177/1024...
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#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen?
Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A credit theory of anti-credit money: How the cryptocurrency sphere turned into a shadow banking system
Cryptocurrencies were designed to function as money without banks. How, then, could they run into a banking crisis in 2022? We argue that the evolution of the crypto sphere into a credit based syst...
www.tandfonline.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen?
Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The UK will soon have a new industrial strategy. What can we learn from past policies, and from examining the sectors in the government's recent green paper?
Our new CMA report looks at the data.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-policies-new-evidence-for-the-uk
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Our new CMA report looks at the data.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-policies-new-evidence-for-the-uk
1/
April 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The UK will soon have a new industrial strategy. What can we learn from past policies, and from examining the sectors in the government's recent green paper?
Our new CMA report looks at the data.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-policies-new-evidence-for-the-uk
1/
Our new CMA report looks at the data.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-policies-new-evidence-for-the-uk
1/
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NEW: Where and how does the government spend its money?
@beeboileau.bsky.social, @maxwarner.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social's new interactive tool allows you to explore where and how the government spends money, over time and across the UK.
📊 Explore the data: ifs.org.uk/calculators/...
@beeboileau.bsky.social, @maxwarner.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social's new interactive tool allows you to explore where and how the government spends money, over time and across the UK.
📊 Explore the data: ifs.org.uk/calculators/...
April 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
NEW: Where and how does the government spend its money?
@beeboileau.bsky.social, @maxwarner.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social's new interactive tool allows you to explore where and how the government spends money, over time and across the UK.
📊 Explore the data: ifs.org.uk/calculators/...
@beeboileau.bsky.social, @maxwarner.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social's new interactive tool allows you to explore where and how the government spends money, over time and across the UK.
📊 Explore the data: ifs.org.uk/calculators/...
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We're very excited to announce the publication of issue 11(1)!
143 pages packed with important & timely research on issues such as QE, the asset economy, Tesla, green finance, and inclusion, as well as three exciting essays/reviews featuring Wittgenstein, central banks & bailouts.
Do check it out!
143 pages packed with important & timely research on issues such as QE, the asset economy, Tesla, green finance, and inclusion, as well as three exciting essays/reviews featuring Wittgenstein, central banks & bailouts.
Do check it out!
Finance and Society: Volume 11 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Finance and Society - Volume 11 - Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We're very excited to announce the publication of issue 11(1)!
143 pages packed with important & timely research on issues such as QE, the asset economy, Tesla, green finance, and inclusion, as well as three exciting essays/reviews featuring Wittgenstein, central banks & bailouts.
Do check it out!
143 pages packed with important & timely research on issues such as QE, the asset economy, Tesla, green finance, and inclusion, as well as three exciting essays/reviews featuring Wittgenstein, central banks & bailouts.
Do check it out!
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🚨New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Torben Iversen: doi.org/10.1177/0010...
We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵
We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵
April 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🚨New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Torben Iversen: doi.org/10.1177/0010...
We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵
We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵
Reposted by Elsa Clara Massoc
📢 New JEPP collection 📢
One of Europe's toughest 🥜 to crack? Balancing the green and digital transitions while staying competitive. Martin B. Carstensen and Berthold Rittberger bring together the latest JEPP collection on European competitiveness in the twin transition 👇
One of Europe's toughest 🥜 to crack? Balancing the green and digital transitions while staying competitive. Martin B. Carstensen and Berthold Rittberger bring together the latest JEPP collection on European competitiveness in the twin transition 👇
The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition
Explore the article collection: The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition. Published in Journal of European Public Policy.
www.tandfonline.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
📢 New JEPP collection 📢
One of Europe's toughest 🥜 to crack? Balancing the green and digital transitions while staying competitive. Martin B. Carstensen and Berthold Rittberger bring together the latest JEPP collection on European competitiveness in the twin transition 👇
One of Europe's toughest 🥜 to crack? Balancing the green and digital transitions while staying competitive. Martin B. Carstensen and Berthold Rittberger bring together the latest JEPP collection on European competitiveness in the twin transition 👇
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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The term critical minerals is being thrown around “without a lot of attention to what it means." @triofrancos.bsky.social True dat.
‘Metals are the new oil’: B.C. fast-tracks critical minerals projects to counter tariffs: thenarwhal.ca/bc-critical-...
‘Metals are the new oil’: B.C. fast-tracks critical minerals projects to counter tariffs: thenarwhal.ca/bc-critical-...
B.C. fast-tracks critical minerals mining to counter tariffs | The Narwhal
Observers worry B.C.’s rush to fast track critical minerals projects will impact the environment and Indigenous Rights
thenarwhal.ca
March 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The term critical minerals is being thrown around “without a lot of attention to what it means." @triofrancos.bsky.social True dat.
‘Metals are the new oil’: B.C. fast-tracks critical minerals projects to counter tariffs: thenarwhal.ca/bc-critical-...
‘Metals are the new oil’: B.C. fast-tracks critical minerals projects to counter tariffs: thenarwhal.ca/bc-critical-...
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The fiscal breakthrough in Germany is setting a clear direction: Military deficit spending has priority above everything else, the only budget with no limit. The defence spending goal dwarfs the deficit spending available for climate.
March 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The fiscal breakthrough in Germany is setting a clear direction: Military deficit spending has priority above everything else, the only budget with no limit. The defence spending goal dwarfs the deficit spending available for climate.
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Interested in money, machines, minerals? Delhi’s Center for Science and Environment is doing some of the best work on climate political economy out there. Had a blast chatting with @aygoswami.bsky.social about how developing countries navigate the polycrisis & Trump
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtkE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtkE...
Climate Policy in the Era of the Polycrisis: What can we expect in 2025?
YouTube video by Centre for Science and Environment
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Interested in money, machines, minerals? Delhi’s Center for Science and Environment is doing some of the best work on climate political economy out there. Had a blast chatting with @aygoswami.bsky.social about how developing countries navigate the polycrisis & Trump
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtkE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtkE...
Dear CPE/IPE/SER colleagues & friends, as my mid-term TT evaluation is coming 😱, I was wondering if you (or anybody that you know of) have made use of one of my papers in one their courses' syllabus? If that's the case, could you please tell me (here or by email) 🫶?
March 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Dear CPE/IPE/SER colleagues & friends, as my mid-term TT evaluation is coming 😱, I was wondering if you (or anybody that you know of) have made use of one of my papers in one their courses' syllabus? If that's the case, could you please tell me (here or by email) 🫶?
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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
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The real short to medium term constraint on serious rearmament is industrial rather than financial.
Finding the money is relatively straightforward. Spending it is harder.
Finding the money is relatively straightforward. Spending it is harder.
March 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The real short to medium term constraint on serious rearmament is industrial rather than financial.
Finding the money is relatively straightforward. Spending it is harder.
Finding the money is relatively straightforward. Spending it is harder.
Reposted by Elsa Clara Massoc
If you’re wondering how on earth Europe navigates the post-transatlantic era of defense spending, self imposed fiscal restraint, energy vulnerability and climate goals… so are @70sbachchan.bsky.social and I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...
Europe Enters Its Metal Era | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
What kind of Europe survives a fractured transatlantic military alliance?
www.phenomenalworld.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
If you’re wondering how on earth Europe navigates the post-transatlantic era of defense spending, self imposed fiscal restraint, energy vulnerability and climate goals… so are @70sbachchan.bsky.social and I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...
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Find the EU communication on the Clean Industrial Deal here commission.europa.eu/document/dow...
commission.europa.eu
February 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Find the EU communication on the Clean Industrial Deal here commission.europa.eu/document/dow...
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Weaponised interdependence along the lines described by @abenewman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social over access to raw materials, as discussed by @edconway.bsky.social.
If you haven’t listened to this week’s Rethink now’s your chance.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
If you haven’t listened to this week’s Rethink now’s your chance.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
February 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Weaponised interdependence along the lines described by @abenewman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social over access to raw materials, as discussed by @edconway.bsky.social.
If you haven’t listened to this week’s Rethink now’s your chance.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
If you haven’t listened to this week’s Rethink now’s your chance.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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The energy system is undergoing transformation, but so far few signs of a transition: Three slides I prepared for last week's class and will show at the climate capitalism event tonight: The 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹, the 𝕓𝕒𝕕, and the 𝔲𝔤𝔩𝔶.
February 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The energy system is undergoing transformation, but so far few signs of a transition: Three slides I prepared for last week's class and will show at the climate capitalism event tonight: The 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹, the 𝕓𝕒𝕕, and the 𝔲𝔤𝔩𝔶.
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Euractiv has shared a leaked frameowkr for state aid measures to support the Clean Industrial Deal
Looks ambitious
www.euractiv.com/wp-content/u...
Looks ambitious
www.euractiv.com/wp-content/u...
www.euractiv.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Euractiv has shared a leaked frameowkr for state aid measures to support the Clean Industrial Deal
Looks ambitious
www.euractiv.com/wp-content/u...
Looks ambitious
www.euractiv.com/wp-content/u...
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My annual decarbonization presentation is here.
200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
January 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
My annual decarbonization presentation is here.
200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
Reposted by Elsa Clara Massoc
New pub 📢 "SoftBank: Empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism" New Political Economy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
SoftBank: empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism
Venture capital (VC) firms in Silicon Valley have long enabled digital enterprises from Meta to Google. This article investigates SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate whose Softbank Vision Fund (SVF1)...
www.tandfonline.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
New pub 📢 "SoftBank: Empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism" New Political Economy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Until recently, policymakers still pretended to care abt climate (in EU, still?😱🫠). Looking at public investment, I ask: Do they really? Why may they prioritize other objectives? With what effects? W/ other great contributions, food for thought here: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Until recently, policymakers still pretended to care abt climate (in EU, still?😱🫠). Looking at public investment, I ask: Do they really? Why may they prioritize other objectives? With what effects? W/ other great contributions, food for thought here: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
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📊 Last week, we released our new central bank speeches database, which almost doubles the coverage of the @BIS_org
database.
We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)
database.
We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)
January 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
📊 Last week, we released our new central bank speeches database, which almost doubles the coverage of the @BIS_org
database.
We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)
database.
We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)