Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenStefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 11hNew article just dropped in APSR! Leah Downey and yours truly on why people should stop using “democratize” when all they really mean is increasing market access. (Looking at you, economists! 👀) And, more positively, what a better vision of “democratization” looks like when applied to finance. 14519
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026'Bonds are maths, stocks are stories.' Nope! @robinwigglesworth.ft.com 0102
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenDr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Corporate rule has always coexisted with state rule, and companies don’t necessarily pursue it to advance their business interests. That means restoring the state won’t, by itself, fix the problem." On the long history of corporate power and what to do about it today: cupblog.org/2026/09/18/m...cupblog.orgMaha Rafi Atal on When Companies Rule - Columbia University Press BlogMaha Rafi Atal discusses the history of corporate rule, the limits of state regulation, and what it takes to hold global companies accountable. 0128
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenJens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Couldnt be more timely! In @jeppjournal.bsky.social (open access), a detailed post mortem of the 2022 inflation shock, and suggestions how to do better this time. 03713
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Montagu Norman: ‘If ever you should feel downhearted just you remember that, economically speaking, there is only hope through a community of interest and co-operation between all central banks.’ Nagel: .... 000
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenNew Left EViews @newlefteviews.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Put simply: the central banks are not in charge. Waltraud Schelkle once compared it to Asterix and the Romans: anarchy, aided by the occasional dose of magic (financial innovation), withstands the imposition of order. 8/n 141
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 22/12/2025The best new Substack you're (probably) not reading yet. @cornelban.bsky.social covers everything from ruling the winds and green central banking to kinky investments, China as the revisionist terminator, and what it takes to scale technology on geoeconomic.substack.comgeoeconomic.substack.comGeoeconomic | SubstackCornel Ban, associate prof at Copenhagen Business School and fellow at Boston University's China Initiative at the Global Development Program. Click to read Geoeconomic, a Substack publication with hu... 031
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenUgo Panizza @upanizza.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Public Investment Quality and Sovering Risk (with Amat Adarov) is now out in JIMF @gvagrad.bsky.social 062
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenAndrea Paterlini (he/him) @apaterlini.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Staff 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...ucuedinburgh.org.ukA message to our students about the upcoming strike, 17-19 November 2025 — UCU EdinburghDear 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... 089
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenPhilipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 04/11/2025IMF: "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." 1197
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Congratulations! and look, @fabianpape.bsky.social fresh figures for you nice dollar hegemony lecture. 131
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Bang: "A truly healthy economy will come from a government taking responsibility for delivering meaningful change, not evoking the bond markets to avoid it." 020
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenJohn Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 30/10/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe UK bond markets have become a political trap that strangles public spending. But there’s a way out | Sahil DuttaWith living standards falling and the far right on the rise, the chancellor has the power to make decisions, not simply accept diktats from the markets, says lecturer in political economy Sahil Dutta 011
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenBen Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Paris-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/...theguardian.comIt’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cutsSome Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis 12492272
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenPhilippa Sigl-Glöckner @philippasigl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025We 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... 36264
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenRuth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 03/07/2025For 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 ! 01827
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Domestic bond vigilantes - the unsung 'heroes' of market discipline; congratulations on this fine piece! 030
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025read @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...ft.comIt’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 1114
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025scrapping 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. 25522
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 12/03/2025A 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). 000
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Highly 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. 020
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Blown 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. 9629173
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenRosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 10/03/2025congrats 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....tandfonline.comUnfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international taxFinancial globalization has enabled multinational corporations to shift profits between jurisdictions to lower their tax rate, undermining public finances and concerning policy makers. While policy... 0204
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025What 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). 021
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenDebt Justice @debtjustice.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The 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...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on development’s paradox: the rich benefit more than the poor | EditorialEditorial: The global south needs a fairer deal than this one, in which it funds the lifestyle and wealth of the global north 063
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025“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... 12611
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenMarkus Wagner @markuswagner.bsky.social · 16/12/2024⚠️ 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...jobs.univie.ac.atUniversity Assistant (postdoc)University Assistant (postdoc) 6224138
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Happy birthday indeed - reminds me of @sarahquinn.bsky.social's debt as a time machine. 010
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Yet another example for @steffenmau.bsky.social's useful concept of the Polarisierungsunternehmer (polarisation entrepreneur). 020
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024First time using this nifty tool on central bank speeches -- 👏 and thank you @jdeyris.bsky.social & co-authors. 150
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Looking forward to reading and welcome to bsky @cornelban.bsky.social -- it will be a much nicer place with you here! 080
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenDóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty -- a progressive reform agenda to enhance digital sovereignty for people and the plane www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...ucl.ac.ukReclaiming digital sovereigntyAuthored by Cecilia Rikap, Cédric Durand, Paolo Gerbaudo, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná 031
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Duck 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...lrb.co.ukDonald MacKenzie · Wasting Assets 000
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Recommended reading on Călin Georgescu and what explains his rise (looking beyond TikTok) by Cornel Ban. labourhub.org.uk/2024/11/26/r...labourhub.org.ukRomania’s shock election: Who is Călin Georgescu and what happens next?The first round of Romania’s presidential election produced a shock result with ultranationalist Călin Georgescu topping the poll with 23% of the votes, followed by centre-right candidate Elena Las… 000
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Catching up with summer podcasts and v much enjoyed listening to @andreabinder.bsky.social on all things offshore money. Fear not if you don’t speak German, she has written lots of great stuff in English too. www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/offs...deutschlandfunknova.deGeldgeschäfte im Ausland: Legal und illegal zugleichWie reiche Privatleute und große Konzerne sich neues Geld auf internationalen Finanzmärkten besorgen, weiß die Politikwissenschaftlerin Andrea Binder. 141
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024A trailblazer really, after all the Ministry of Digital can still be reached via fax. 000
Reposted by Charlotte RommerskirchenDaniel Munevar @danielmunevar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024IMF surcharges reached US$ 1.9 billion, equivalent to 53% of lending income and 39% of operational income in FY2024. Mind you, these profits were made from the most vulnerable borrowers of the Fund. Unfortunately, the recent reform failed to address the structural problems of the policy. 031
Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Was Enrichetta Prodi the original tiger-wolf mom? 000