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Anna Zech

@asezech.bsky.social
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PhD researcher @mpilhlt Frankfurt. MSCA PhD @sorbonneparis1 & @ulbruxelles with @gemdiamondphd. Central bank nerd, interested in (networks of) macroeconomic expertise. Views own.

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
As part of our Max Planck Law Fellow Group, we have been running a webinar series on Independence and Democracy in the EU. This Wednesday, 10th June from 2.30 PM we are hosting what promises to be a very interesting discussion on US cryptomercantilism vs EU monetary sovereignty.
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 29/05/2026
"Oh just the five parallel sessions I'd like to attend on a Friday afternoon"
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal
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Finance and Society @finandsoc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter from Finance and Society team! Here is our special easter egg for all of you: a fresh Call for Papers for this year's Finance and Society conference happening again at CBS Copenhagen! Deadline: May 1st Hoping to see many of you there!
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Finance and society conference 2026 – Finance and Society Network
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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
📢 Updated EBI working paper out 📢 ➡ “Cryptomercantilism vs. Monetary Sovereignty. How stablecoin laws shape the battle for international monetary supremacy“ (with Edoardo Martino and Eric Monnet) ⬅ Available #openaccess at @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Sounds fascinating! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Virtuous Bankers
An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became “a great engine of state”
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️
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Antonin Thyrard @antonintd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Pourquoi y a-t-il autant de consultant·es dans les politiques de l'UE ? Pourquoi dépenser des MILLIARDS en consultant·es sur le moyen-terme ? Qu'est-ce que ces nouvelles relations d'expertise nous disent du gvt international ? La réponse bientôt dans la RFAP avec @marylou-h.bsky.social et V. Lebrou.
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Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 23/03/2026
Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium! politicaleconomy.be 🔍 Meet the team 📚 Browse publications 🔬 Explore projects 📅 Stay tuned for events The website is built with @rstats and @quarto.org. It is open source: codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/e...
The home page of the website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium
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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"How does hiking rates help with oil price shocks" It's not that central bankers don't have any answers to such questions. It's more they often seem embarrassed to give those answers
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Do we understand the politics of this kind of cost-shock inflation (and the policies that might help address it)? I think not so much: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The Politics of Inflation
Inflation returned to the foreground of political economies worldwide after 2019, after 30 years of relative quiescence. Inflation remains unpopular—including among those who are hurt by the policies ...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12/03/2026
every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat
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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The Greens are the only party in Europe that is serious about price stability
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
FAZ is endorsing the end of Ulrike Malmendier's term in the German council of economic experts because a) she was too far away (Berkeley) b) her research is not as relevant anymore c) behavioural economists tend towards paternalistic solution. Sigh.
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 18/02/2026
My book “The Technocratic International” now has a cover — out this summer! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of “The Technocratic International” (OUP) featuring a satellite image of the Suez Canal
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Can't wait!
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Look here for the bigger body of work: steffenmurau.com/portfolio/in...
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Trump's Dollar | Steffen Murau
Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar
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James Wood @thinkwoodist.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Did Congress forget the Fed controls inflation, or was forgetting the point? My paper in New Political Economy shows Congress engaged in strategic repoliticisation, where political conflict serves electoral interests and preserves the Fed's technocratic autonomy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Strategic repoliticisation: inflation, blame, and the fracturing of democratic accountability in the United States
When inflation returned to the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic after decades of price stability, it created a critical test for the accountability mechanisms underpinning the system of d...
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Owe Jessen @owejessen.de · 15/01/2026
Spread the word.
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Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 27/10/2025
Œconomia launches a new type of publication: Data & Quantitative Methods in the History/Philosophy of Economics The goal: give space to reflections often sidelined in traditional articles where transparency & discussion of methods get cut for “results.” journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
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Quantitative Methods and Data in the History, Philosophy, and Metho...
Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy invites submission of articles that present, discuss, or make innovative use of data and quantitative methods in the study of the history, philosophy, ...
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The SNB is levelling up its visitor centre. Probably no rival to Citéco Paris but it does look very nice! www.moneyverse.ch
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Home | Im Moneyverse erlebst du Geld wie nie zuvor
Neue Sehenswürdigkeit: Im kostenlosen Museum wird das Phänomen Geld in einer multimedialen Ausstellung erlebbar. Ab dem 10. April 2026 im Kaiserhaus Bern.
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Day three at new job in Frankfurt @mpilhlt.bsky.social. Nice to be finally on the ground and able to attend the myriad of CB-related events on offer. First up: IMFS/Frankfurt School of Finance book presentation.
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
In Frankfurt today to attend the ECB Legal Conference. Over the past years, I've spent a lot of time with economists working on the ECB/monetary policy. Curious to see these topics discussed from a legal perspective. www.ecb.europa.eu/press/confer...
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ECB Legal Conference 2025
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Looking forward to this discussion on Wednesday!
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Henry Curr @curr.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I reported this week's Money Talks podcast from the mountain, lake and lodge at Jackson Hole. Featuring Kristin Forbes, @jonsteinsson.bsky.social ‬, Barry Eichengreen and - at 10,000ft - @laura-veldkamp.bsky.social Listen to my Jackson Hole audio diary: www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
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Gone fishing: our economics editor’s Jackson Hole diary
Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how Donald Trump’s fight with the Fed escalated in a usually quiet corner of Wyoming
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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us! @finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Things that are totally normal in Cologne: 4,000 fans of 1. FC Köln attending a special mess in the cathedral at the start of the season. Organ plays the club‘s hymn (the Scottish folk song Loch Lomond, with a German text) priest sings along (from 1h19m).
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Dezernat Zukunft @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Masterarbeitsthema gesucht? Wir suchen eine:n Masterstudent:in, um die #Elastizitäten von Bundesausgaben zu analysieren. Wenn du dich für #Makroökonomie begeisterst und mit deiner Forschung Impact erzielen willst, bewirb dich jetzt! dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de/job/2282660?...
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Deine Masterarbeit im Growth & Budget Lab des Dezernat Zukunft - Institut für Makrofinanzen (w/m/d, 38h/Woche, 3-6 Monate) | Jobs at Dezernat Zukunft
Dezernat Zukunft is a non-partisan policy institute that aims to explain and re-think monetary, fiscal, and economic policy in an accessible and coherent way. Our work is guided by three core values: ...
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🎓 Yesterday, at the graduation ceremony of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), we had the great pleasure of honoring ‪@tobiasarbogast.bsky.social, @cerencevik.bsky.social, @hadoose.bsky.social, ‬... 🧵 1/2
Foto of the graduates with their certificates. Maximilian Kiecker, Tobias Arbogast, Marco Oberti, Muhammad Osama Iqbal, Jeremiah Nollenberger, Anna Hehenberger, Stephan Gruber, Hanna Doose, Camilla Locatelli, Valentin Rottensteiner, Ceren Çevik and Zarah Westrich
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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My new book on 'The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations. Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics' with Stephan Pühringer and Jens Maesse is out!! You can dowload the whole book in open access below: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations | Contri
Discourses around research excellence and quality are predominant within the economic sciences, with various forms of ranking playing a central role. They make
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Off for some holidays, catch you on the other side for more of this ⬇️
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Cool new @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social project. Dashboard for supply side inflationary pressures. ⬇️ dezernatzukunft.org/supply-side-...
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Supply Side Monitor - Dezernat Zukunft
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Dezernat Zukunft @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨Job-Alert: Wir suchen eine:n #PolicyAnalyst / #Economist (w/m/d) für nachhaltige Finanzmärkte. Du kennst dich mit Klimapolitik aus und möchtest handfeste Vorschläge entwickeln? Dann komm in unser Team! dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de/job/2151256?... #Job #Hiring #Klima #Finanzen #ThinkTank
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Policy Analyst / Economist für nachhaltige Finanzmärkte bei Dezernat Zukunft – Institut für Makrofinanzen (w/m/d, 32-39h/Woche, zunächst befristet auf ein Jahr) | Jobs at Dezernat Zukunft
Dezernat Zukunft is a non-partisan policy institute that aims to explain and re-think monetary, fiscal, and economic policy in an accessible and coherent way. Our work is guided by three core values: ...
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I had the pleasure of co-hosting our Money Talks podcast on the German economy, Merz and the fiscal bazooka, feat. @monika-schnitzer.com and @philippasigl.bsky.social. www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
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Can Germany reinvent its economy?
Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, the challenges facing an economic plan that is radical (by German standards)
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Alessandro Merli @merlialess.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A wonderful memory of Stan Fischer being warmly greeted by his disciple and friend Mario Draghi at the @ecb.europa.eu Central Banking Forum in Sintra. Central-bank watcher watching at the back
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Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 19/05/2025
🎉 All the contributions to @finandsoc.bsky.social special section on the “Scientization of Central Banks” are now online! 👉 shorturl.at/Izq9r In the intro with Francesco Sergi, we refine the concept of scientization along 3 key dimensions 🔹 Policymaking 🔹 Contributory 🔹 Legitimizing
Article: Redefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics

This article introduces a new conceptual framework for examining the transformation of central banks’ activities at the intersection of science and politics. It builds on the results of the contributions gathered in this special section on the scientization of central banking, to which this article also provides an introduction. We start with an analysis of Martin Marcussen’s concept of ‘scientization’, originally formulated to describe the changes within central banks since the 2000s. After highlighting how Marcussen’s concept has raised different interpretations, we broaden our scope to examine how ‘scientization’ is applied in the wider social sciences, extending beyond the study of central banks. This brings to the fore two ideas: scientization as ‘boundary work’ (redrawing the line between ‘science’ and ‘non-science’) happening both in the public-facing (‘frontstage’) and internal (‘backstage’) activities of organizations. Finally, we suggest how these two ideas can be used to reinterpret ‘scientization’ of central banks as the emergence of central banks as ‘boundary organizations’. This reframing allows us to untangle and clarify the phenomena previously conflated under the original concept of scientization, offering a more coherent framework for ongoing research on central banks.
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Laura Pierret @laurapierret.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
For my first Bluesky publication, I am happy to share that my first single authored article is out in Comparative European Politics and open access! The article aims to explain the concept of moral hazard's domination of the EU's policy response to the Great Recession rdcu.be/embpS
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Beyond the German obsession: moral hazard and power in European economic governance
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Interesting read.
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
For anyone in Paris in June and interested in expertise: www.icp.fr/a-propos-de-...
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Expertise facing new forms of power and influence | Workshop
In view of the attacks on established forms of expertise and ongoing technological and industrial developments, contemporary models of expertise are being tested more than ever. Join us on 4th June fo...
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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A good one for your reading lists! Can always count on Steffen and his team to unpack the complex technicalities of money and finance to show us where the magic happens. 🏦💶
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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Second round of voting will not happen today
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 05/05/2025
Blyth's new book is out before he managed to create a Bluesky account. Order it anyway! I'll let you know when he gets here. www.amazon.com/Inflation-Gu...
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Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers
Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers [Blyth, Mark, Fraccaroli, Nicolò] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers
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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 30/04/2025
New publication (co-authored with @simeonbischl.de)! Excited to see Chapter 2 of my PhD published in EJPE: How Central Bank Independence Shapes Monetary Policy Communication: A Large Language Model Application. A thread below: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How central bank independence shapes monetary policy communication: A Large Language Model application
Although central bank communication is a core monetary policy and accountability tool for central banks, little is known about what shapes it. This pa…
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FSN (Finance and Society Network): deadline approaching, final call for the Finance and Society Conference 2025! financeandsocietynetwork.org/fsn-2025-fin...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2025
REPORTER: Powell says he won't leave even if you ask him to TRUMP: Oh, he'll leave. If I ask him to he'll be out of there ... I'm not happy with him. If I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast. Believe me. REPORTER: Are you trying to remove him? TRUMP: Yeah, next question.
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Joost van Spanje @joostvanspanje.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Today in Financial Times, @martinsandbu.ft.com: In the fight for technological control over the economy, the EU needs a central bank digital currency (..) when Trump placed sanctions on Iran, Europe could not act (..) the €zone is dependent on US payment systems (..) The time for a digital € is now.
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