Charlotte Rommerskirchen
@crommers.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy @ University of Edinburgh | still writing a book about public debt management
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Staff is currently striking here at the University of Edinburgh. Senior management is planning widespread compulsory redundancies (without a real need for the same). You can read more here @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/rd72kte...
A message to our students about the upcoming strike, 17-19 November 2025 — UCU Edinburgh
Dear students, UCU Edinburgh will again be going on strike Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th November as a result of University management’s refusal to commit to no compulsory redundancie...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Staff is currently striking here at the University of Edinburgh. Senior management is planning widespread compulsory redundancies (without a real need for the same). You can read more here @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/rd72kte...
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IMF: "only about half of fiscal consolidations achieve their fiscal targets, including debt reduction. A broad range of econometric methods, based on well-established methods in the empirical literature, confirm that fiscal consolidations do not reduce debt ratios, on average."
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
IMF: "only about half of fiscal consolidations achieve their fiscal targets, including debt reduction. A broad range of econometric methods, based on well-established methods in the empirical literature, confirm that fiscal consolidations do not reduce debt ratios, on average."
Congratulations! and look, @fabianpape.bsky.social fresh figures for you nice dollar hegemony lecture.
🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski:
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Congratulations! and look, @fabianpape.bsky.social fresh figures for you nice dollar hegemony lecture.
Bang: "A truly healthy economy will come from a government taking responsibility for delivering meaningful change, not evoking the bond markets to avoid it."
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Bang: "A truly healthy economy will come from a government taking responsibility for delivering meaningful change, not evoking the bond markets to avoid it."
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Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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We have a great job opportunity for an economic analyst focused on fiscal in our Brussels office BUT so far hardly any women have applied. Pls help us changed that and spread the word! Job posting: dezernatzukunft-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
July 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
We have a great job opportunity for an economic analyst focused on fiscal in our Brussels office BUT so far hardly any women have applied. Pls help us changed that and spread the word! Job posting: dezernatzukunft-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
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For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !
July 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !
Domestic bond vigilantes - the unsung 'heroes' of market discipline; congratulations on this fine piece!
Alison Johnston and I have a new open access article out arguing that pressure from domestic rather than foreign bondholders is most effective in forcing populist governments to rein in their economic policies. Our case studies are Italy and Hungary, but there are clear lessons for the USA.
#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -
Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments - cup.org/4l2b2l5
- Alison L. Johnston & @excubs.bsky.social
#FirstView
Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments - cup.org/4l2b2l5
- Alison L. Johnston & @excubs.bsky.social
#FirstView
June 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Domestic bond vigilantes - the unsung 'heroes' of market discipline; congratulations on this fine piece!
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read @alphaville.ft.com series on the crazy 'fiscal headroom' games played by the OBR and the Bank of England with QT, games with real consequences, like the two-child benefit cap, and weep for Labour's toothless governing
www.ft.com/content/d593...
www.ft.com/content/d593...
It’s time for yet another UK fiscal event. Will the OBR fix its BoE bond-sale projections?
MaPS, they don’t love you like we love you
www.ft.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
read @alphaville.ft.com series on the crazy 'fiscal headroom' games played by the OBR and the Bank of England with QT, games with real consequences, like the two-child benefit cap, and weep for Labour's toothless governing
www.ft.com/content/d593...
www.ft.com/content/d593...
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scrapping it would add GBP 2.5bn yearly to government spending. That is 25bn over ten years.
Only last year, the Treasury paid the Bank of England around 40bn for its 'losses' on the QE gilt portfolio.
It didnt have to. No other central bank expects to be compensated.
Only last year, the Treasury paid the Bank of England around 40bn for its 'losses' on the QE gilt portfolio.
It didnt have to. No other central bank expects to be compensated.
Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap.
Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap
Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
scrapping it would add GBP 2.5bn yearly to government spending. That is 25bn over ten years.
Only last year, the Treasury paid the Bank of England around 40bn for its 'losses' on the QE gilt portfolio.
It didnt have to. No other central bank expects to be compensated.
Only last year, the Treasury paid the Bank of England around 40bn for its 'losses' on the QE gilt portfolio.
It didnt have to. No other central bank expects to be compensated.
A case of ‘A poor craftsman blames his tools’ fiscal rules edition? Since '05, the Stability and Growth Pact could discount spending which fostered international solidarity (‘French defense spending loophole’) or which was thought to promote the unification of Europe (German unification loophole).
March 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A case of ‘A poor craftsman blames his tools’ fiscal rules edition? Since '05, the Stability and Growth Pact could discount spending which fostered international solidarity (‘French defense spending loophole’) or which was thought to promote the unification of Europe (German unification loophole).
Highly recommended and eminently quotable on coercive decarbonisation, credit policy, and capital controls! - looking forward to the rest of the @ripejournal.bsky.social special issue on derisking.
excellent Leah Downy piece in our RIPE 'derisking' special issue on why we should talk more about coercing/disciplining finance -
'we must recognize how foundational coercive power, and thus coercive policy, is to sustaining a well-ordered democratic state'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'we must recognize how foundational coercive power, and thus coercive policy, is to sustaining a well-ordered democratic state'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Coercing finance to fund decarbonization: the democratic case for coercion in funding the green transformation
Insofar as governments want to secure a democratic green transition, attention must be paid not only to which policy approach will be effective, quick, or cheap but also to which policy approach pr...
www.tandfonline.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Highly recommended and eminently quotable on coercive decarbonisation, credit policy, and capital controls! - looking forward to the rest of the @ripejournal.bsky.social special issue on derisking.
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Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth.
His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.
His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.
March 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth.
His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.
His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.
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congrats to my brilliant colleague & wonderful friend Saila Stausholm (sensibly not on here) for receiving with @javiergbe.bsky.social the Timothy J. Sinclair Best Article Award from @ripejournal.bsky.social for this paper! 💸
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international tax
Financial globalization has enabled multinational corporations to shift profits between jurisdictions to lower their tax rate, undermining public finances and concerning policy makers. While policy...
www.tandfonline.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
congrats to my brilliant colleague & wonderful friend Saila Stausholm (sensibly not on here) for receiving with @javiergbe.bsky.social the Timothy J. Sinclair Best Article Award from @ripejournal.bsky.social for this paper! 💸
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What a quote; the former UK Chancellor Hammond on the joys of contingent liabilities and why the model is not going anywhere (👋 de-risking), from Aeron Davis excellent history of the UK Treasury since 1976 (@manchesterup.bsky.social).
January 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
What a quote; the former UK Chancellor Hammond on the joys of contingent liabilities and why the model is not going anywhere (👋 de-risking), from Aeron Davis excellent history of the UK Treasury since 1976 (@manchesterup.bsky.social).
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The World Bank calculated that the rich world earned more than $1.4tn in loan repayments from the global south world in 2023
"Colonial patterns of extraction plainly did not disappear with the withdrawal of troops, flags and bureaucrats."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Colonial patterns of extraction plainly did not disappear with the withdrawal of troops, flags and bureaucrats."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on development’s paradox: the rich benefit more than the poor | Editorial
Editorial: The global south needs a fairer deal than this one, in which it funds the lifestyle and wealth of the global north
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The World Bank calculated that the rich world earned more than $1.4tn in loan repayments from the global south world in 2023
"Colonial patterns of extraction plainly did not disappear with the withdrawal of troops, flags and bureaucrats."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Colonial patterns of extraction plainly did not disappear with the withdrawal of troops, flags and bureaucrats."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“In the years since 1982, developing countries have transferred an estimated $4200 billion in interest payments to their creditors in Europe & North America, far outstripping the official-sector development aid these countries received during the same period“
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/new...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/new...
January 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“In the years since 1982, developing countries have transferred an estimated $4200 billion in interest payments to their creditors in Europe & North America, far outstripping the official-sector development aid these countries received during the same period“
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/new...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/new...
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⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University Assistant (postdoc)
University Assistant (postdoc)
jobs.univie.ac.at
December 16, 2024 at 9:19 AM
⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Happy birthday indeed - reminds me of @sarahquinn.bsky.social's debt as a time machine.
[Robbie Williams voice] "And through it all, it has kept paying interest" ... on.ft.com/3OQkmL1
Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond
🎂
on.ft.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Happy birthday indeed - reminds me of @sarahquinn.bsky.social's debt as a time machine.
Yet another example for @steffenmau.bsky.social's useful concept of the Polarisierungsunternehmer (polarisation entrepreneur).
👍📑Nice Bundesbank paper:
➡️70% of Germans endorse the ECB’s engagement on climate
➡️Only 17-20% are concerned that the ECB’s climate actions compromise price stability or ECB independence
➡️Bundesbank staff tend to overestimate the impact of green monetary policy on inflation expectations😏
➡️70% of Germans endorse the ECB’s engagement on climate
➡️Only 17-20% are concerned that the ECB’s climate actions compromise price stability or ECB independence
➡️Bundesbank staff tend to overestimate the impact of green monetary policy on inflation expectations😏
December 11, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Yet another example for @steffenmau.bsky.social's useful concept of the Polarisierungsunternehmer (polarisation entrepreneur).
First time using this nifty tool on central bank speeches -- 👏 and thank you @jdeyris.bsky.social & co-authors.
December 11, 2024 at 10:00 AM
First time using this nifty tool on central bank speeches -- 👏 and thank you @jdeyris.bsky.social & co-authors.
Looking forward to reading and welcome to bsky @cornelban.bsky.social -- it will be a much nicer place with you here!
excellent new paper on green economic planning from excellent CBS colleagues @jhasselbalch.bsky.social & Cornel Ban, drawing on lessons from post-war indicative planning, contemporary industrial policy & corporate planning 🌻
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation
Sustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering...
www.tandfonline.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Looking forward to reading and welcome to bsky @cornelban.bsky.social -- it will be a much nicer place with you here!
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Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty -- a progressive reform agenda to enhance digital sovereignty for people and the plane
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Reclaiming digital sovereignty
Authored by Cecilia Rikap, Cédric Durand, Paolo Gerbaudo, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty -- a progressive reform agenda to enhance digital sovereignty for people and the plane
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Duck tape & nuclear weapons (D MacKenzie): The official history of the British nuclear programme reveals that the first British atomic bomb was, literally, held together with sticky tape, which was used to fill in the gaps in the lens structure & to minimise settlement.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...
Donald MacKenzie · Wasting Assets
www.lrb.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Duck tape & nuclear weapons (D MacKenzie): The official history of the British nuclear programme reveals that the first British atomic bomb was, literally, held together with sticky tape, which was used to fill in the gaps in the lens structure & to minimise settlement.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...