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Institute for International Political Economy of the HWR Berlin I Promoting interdisciplinary research drawing on economics, political science and sociology.

Website: https://www.ipe-berlin.org
NEW Working Paper

Author: Enzo Godinho and Beatriz Mattos

Title: The New Development Bank and the Ecological Transition: Decoupling Development Finance from Core Currency Hegemony?

BRICS bank, green transition and dollar hegemony (2016–24)

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August 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
📢 NEW Working Paper

Author: Simon Furse

Are there biophysical limits to technical change? - A review of societal exergy analysis and ecological macroeconomics.

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August 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
📢 NEW Working Paper

Author: Linus Zechlin

Economic complexity and financial development – A multilayered analysis of the European Union.

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August 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
📢 NEW Working Paper

Author: Eckhard Hein

Kaleckian economics after Kalecki – a survey

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August 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
📢 NEW Working Paper

Author: Ryan Woodgate

This paper unifies the analysis of stable and explosive inflation dynamics within a nonlinear, but simple, conflict inflation model.

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July 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
📢 NEW Working Paper

Author: Judith Waltl

Labour Market Barriers Beyond the Binary Gender Construct
Explores how cis-normativity shapes labour market discrimination against trans and nonbinary people.

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July 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
📢 IPE Political Economy Forum
🗓 15 July 2025 | 🕓 16:00–18:00
🏫 HWR Berlin, Campus Schöneberg, A 2.04
🗣 Cara Daggett on Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire
Find details on our website: www.ipe-berlin.org/veranstaltun...
June 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📢 IPE-LIEI Workshop
🗓 18 June 2025 | 🏫 HWR Berlin, B5.12
Join us for sessions on Trade & Environmental Challenges (14:00) and Inflation & Monetary Policy (16:00)
Find the full program on our website: www.ipe-berlin.org/veranstaltun...
June 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📢 NEW Working Paper

Author: Tugce Kilic

Does Sectoral Diversification Matter?

Using a novel index, this paper finds that more diversified German counties better absorbed Syrian refugees (2014–15), improving labor outcomes.

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May 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📢 NEW Working Paper

Author: @philipblees.bsky.social

Productivity Growth and Class Struggle in a Growth Regime Framework

How institutions shape productivity: Germany (labor-led) vs. US (state-led), 1991–2022.

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May 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We’re pleased to welcome Nuray Şahin as a visiting researcher at IPE! Her work explores the intersections of labour, ecology, and urban studies, with a focus on just transition and green jobs.

More: www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute...
May 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We’re glad to welcome Tobias Kalt as a new IPE member! His research explores global energy transitions, justice, and power from a political ecology and economy lens. More on his work on labor and hydrogen transitions: www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute...
May 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
IPE-YSI Conference

The Redefinition of Trade Patterns:
Global Value Chains, Innovation and Structural Change

Dates:
- 19 May 2025, 9:30-16:30 pm
- 20 May 2025, 9:00-16:00 pm

Location: HWR Berlin, Schöneberg Campus, Building B, Aula
May 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Next IPE Political Economy Forum

Arab Trade Unions: Between Democratic Deficiency and the
Need for Reform.

23 April, 4-6:00 p.m., HWR Berlin, Schöneberg Campus, Building B, Aula

Registration Link:
www.hwr-berlin.de/aktuelles/ve...
April 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NEW Working Paper

Author: Ignacio Silva Neira, Carlos Rodríguez, Jennifer Pédussel Wu

Microeconomic dynamics of FDI and local innovation: A firm level estimation of Chilean firms.

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March 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NEW Working Paper

Authors: Petra Dünhaupt, Helena Gräf, Valeria Jiménez, Benjamin Jungmann
Industrial Policy Space in Emerging Economies: The Case of Chile’s Lithium Industry and the Energy and Raw Materials Chapter in the EU-Chile Free Trade Agreement.

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March 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW Working Paper

Author: Cara Dabrowski

A Kaleckian approach to the financialization–distribution–inflation nexus: Germany and Austria in comparative perspective

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February 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
NEW Working Paper

Author: Jonathan Sidenros

Housing in the EU: The EU as a Commodifying Force

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February 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NEW Working Paper

Author: Pia Kauer

A New Deal for the Climate?
Lessons from the Inflation Reduction Act

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February 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
NEW Working Paper

Author: Stefan Schoppengerd

When the input of #steel production is switched from coal to #hydrogen, how does this affect the metalworker union's ability to defend working conditions? Why argue for working time reduction?

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April 18, 2024 at 10:16 AM
NEW Working Paper

Authors: Cara Dabrowski, Sonia Kuhls

Does #financialization influence functional income distribution? The paper draws on #Kaleckian mark-up pricing theory to investigate its impact on the Austrian and Finnish #wage shares through three re-distributive channels.
March 27, 2024 at 1:13 PM
NEW Working Paper

Author: João Emboava Vaz

In the 2000s, developing countries sustained record #growth rates and foreign reserve accumulation. How are those related to low #interest rates and high international liquidity?

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March 17, 2024 at 4:04 PM
NEW Working Paper

Author: Mads Hansen

Analyzing feedback effects between income #distribution and demand in Germany (2007-2021), the paper investigates the special role of #overhead wages in the business cycle. It provides the first study for a country other than the USA.
March 7, 2024 at 2:58 PM
NEW Working Paper

Author: Sonia Kuhls

An industrial policy pivoting on the foundational economy is well-suited to address the jobs–vs–environment dilemma. Nonetheless, it must engage with feminist critiques of labor and social reproduction to unlock its transformative potential.
March 4, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Tomorrow, Thomas Malinowski will join the IPE for a talk at our Political Economy Forum about the green climate fund.
See you there!
February 1, 2024 at 4:50 PM