Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Speaking from experience, corporate earnings calls are an underrated place for radicalization (and to observe it). 020
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 11/05/20261/ New piece on the NEIS Center Substack by @luukschmitz.bsky.social: conditionality in industrial policy isn't just a safeguard against waste — it also has real costs. And those costs are systematically underweighted in the current debate. neiscenter.substack.com/p/industrial...neiscenter.substack.comIndustrial Policy Conditionality: A Guide for UsersPublic debate treats conditionality as a single dial to be turned up or down to impose stricter discipline on private actors. That framing obscures the choices that actually matter. 1166
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzPalma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 21/04/2026There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China. But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves. New paper & thread 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 923975
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzLuuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026War is reshaping global markets. I have a paper under review that asks: who wins or loses when supply chains meet geopolitics, and what are the political implications? Since the world is changing faster than our overburdened peer-review system can handle, here's the 📃 + a🧵 osf.io/preprints/so... 1157
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026War is reshaping global markets. I have a paper under review that asks: who wins or loses when supply chains meet geopolitics, and what are the political implications? Since the world is changing faster than our overburdened peer-review system can handle, here's the 📃 + a🧵 osf.io/preprints/so... 1157
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Speaking from experience, this is a great opportunity for feedback and exposure for PhD researchers! 040
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Dutch exit poll: This is about three standard deviations away from insane 030
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzJoshua Cova @joshcova.bsky.social · 23/09/2025🚨 Introducing CommonsCorpus: a comprehensive, annotated and machine-readable database of UK House of Commons' speeches, containing speakers' party-political ID and socio-demographic information. Joint work w/ ➡️ @irenegermani.bsky.social Available here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...dataverse.harvard.edu 0134
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025The emerging cross-shareholding and concentration in the U.S. chipmaking/AI stack is a big open question in polecon. Today's announcement comes on top of Nvidia's $5bn investment in Intel. www.ft.com/content/d3ca...ft.comNvidia to invest up to $100bn in OpenAIPartnership will support huge build-out of data centres for artificial intelligence 151
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025In H1 2025, AI CapEx added more to US GDP growth than consumer spending (the job market meanwhile is slowing down). At what point should we label this as overaccumulation? sherwood.news/markets/the-...sherwood.newsThe AI spending boom is eating the US economyAI-linked spending has fueled more growth in the first half of 2025 on average than US consumer spending.... 010
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I'm not normally one for doomposting, but today's politics feel like the 1890s (robber barons), 1930s (rising fascism, appeasing autocrats), and 1970s (stagflation, new general purpose technologies) are merging into one ugly timelime. 130
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Very thrilled and more than a little humbled with this! Thank you to the jury and the editors, and to my co-author☺️ 0173
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The really important fine print in today's tariff announcement: if companies can prove that the material origin of their goods is within the value chain definitions of the USMCA, their trade is exempt from tariffs. Make Mexico and Canada great again? 010
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzJoshua Cova @joshcova.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Happy to introduce ItaParlCorpus: a large, annotated, machine-readable dataset of Italian parliamentary speeches 🇮🇹📊. Covering 1948-2022, it includes 2.4M speeches, 470M words from 5830 speakers across 77 parties. Ideal for studying political discourse, party rhetoric and parliamentary behavior! 🔍📖cambridge.org 03819
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Planning the green transition is not only about creating new industries, but also about phasing-out old ones. If you want to know how political backlash against impending economic decline and regional inequalities led to new policies and institutions for transition planning in the EU, have a look👇 2289
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzKate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Terrific & much needed deep empirical analysis of new EU industrial policy state aid tool by @timoseidl.bsky.social & @luukschmitz.bsky.social. The key goldilocks punch line? Critical policy goals best achieved with ‘just the right’ amount of EU conditionality rules. 075
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025If you want to understand how EU industrial policy works on the ground, have a look at this thread and the new paper it links to. 071
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzCarola Westermeier @c-westermeier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Do you want to explore what’s happening? I am recruitung doctoral researchers for my Lise Meitner Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty @mpifg.bsky.social Find more information in the link below Apply by February 28, 2025 Starting date is October 1, 2025 career.mpifg.de/jobposting/e... 12827
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzPalma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 27/01/2025What a week ahead! ✨ The one & only @katemcnamara.bsky.social visits us in Cologne to talk about EU Economic Statecraft in the Age of Geopolitics Then @luukschmitz.bsky.social & I are hosting this stellar lineup of scholars for our Geoeconomic Turn in IPE workshop 🌍 @mpifg.bsky.social 0136
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzMax-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf 04241
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Are you curious about using Large Language Model as a research tool for text annotation but don't know where to start? @joshcova.bsky.social and I have you covered with this primer that guides readers with a hands-on example written in accessible language. 📃 Here: osf.io/preprints/os... 2197
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzTimo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Do you work on European integration and want to live in one of the most livable cities in 🇪🇺? We have an opening for 3-year postdoc position at our research group, which is part of the #polsci department @univie.ac.at. Application Deadline: Jan 9, 2025. More info: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...jobs.univie.ac.atUniversity Assistant post doc EIF 1 Political Science ViennaUniversity Assistant post doc EIF 1 Political Science Vienna 01010
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzMax-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Here is a starter pack of MPIfG researchers and alumni. Hit follow for research on economic sociology and political economy! If you are a current or former MPIfG researcher and would like to be added, please let us know in the comments. #socsky go.bsky.app/P1fDXjf 114420
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzTimo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Given the spike in activity on here (finally!), it might be a good moment to repost two recent working papers on the governance and history of the 'poster child' of the EU's new industrial policy: the Important Projects of Common European Interest or IPCEIs. Links 👇 1143
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 25/10/2024The Economist is taking no prisoners this week. 000
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzTimo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 02/10/2024🚨New LUHNIP Policy Brief with @luukschmitz.bsky.social & T. Wuttke in which we summarize key findings from our recent paper on the 'Costs of Conditionality' and elaborate & expand on our policy suggestions. 🔗https://leap.luiss.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LUHNIP-PB2.24-Costs_of_conditionality.pdf 032
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzTimo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 05/08/2024🚨 New working paper with @luukschmitz.bsky.social & Tobias Wuttke. To better understand how EU industrial policy actually works, we take an in-depth look at the governance of Important Projects of Common European Interest. Questions and comments welcome! 🔗 osf.io/preprints/os... 032
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 23/12/2023Every once in a while, I read a piece where I can't decide whether it's whacky or brilliant. This is one of them: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...onlinelibrary.wiley.comLEVIATHAN AND KRAKEN: STATES, CORPORATIONS, AND POLITICAL ECONOMYIn our politico-philosophical bestiary, no monster has historically been more prominent than the Leviathan, the whale of the Book of Job, transformed by Hobbes, which has long been ubiquitous as a me.... 010
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 15/12/2023Brookfield shows us what geopolitical rent-seeking looks like: "We are really excited about what is ahead of us in the next two to three years because of the trends of decarbonisation, digitisation and deglobalisation to come” www.ft.com/content/5fde... 020
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 05/12/2023German constitutional court three weeks ago: emergency fiscal spending for climate is unconstitutional. A German court last week: climate policy is unlawful as missing emission targets exposes citizens to collective threats. I do wonder whether Christmas trees are also magic money trees? 030
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 22/11/2023Verelendungspolitik: (1) pursue a neoliberal policy mix that breaks down public services and infrastructure, causing economic hardship. (2) beat the drum of xenophobia and blame migration. Lo and behold, a mode of politics is born. 050
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 26/10/2023Put this alongside any 1980s report and I challenge you to find the difference. www.euractiv.com/section/econ... 010
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzDustin Voss @dustinvoss.bsky.social · 16/10/2023 📢 MaxCPE is back for a new season with an exciting lineup! Join us online for our first session on Weds 18 October, 3pm CEST. Tommaso Crescioli & @toonvano.bsky.social present "David versus Goliath: The Political Economy of the Superstar and the Small Firm“ 👉 More info mpifg.de/1030945/curr... 0106
Reposted by Luuk SchmitzBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 12/10/2023A list of financial data sources, curated for political economy use cases. Official statistics as well as datasets compiled by organizations and academic researchers. Originally assembled for my students, now available on my website. Suggestions welcome! benjaminbraun.org/teaching/dat... 18843
Luuk Schmitz @luukschmitz.bsky.social · 15/10/2023In my first few days here, I've already encountered some great new research and info that used to make the other place great. If BlueSky really takes off, I am wondering to what extent it can resist the enshitification that plagues so many online platforms (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitt...)en.wikipedia.orgEnshittification - Wikipedia 040