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Dóra Piroska

@piroskadora.bsky.social
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International Political Economy, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, Vienna

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FEPS Europe @feps-europe.eu · 01/10/2026
💰🔴 At the #PolicyConference 2026, the 1st panel discusses how the EU can implement more ambitious spending and financing of priorities via resources outside of the EU budget bit.ly/SustainableE... 🗣️ 🔺 @matthiasecke.bsky.social 🔺Ludovic Voet 🔺 @annakrzyzanowska.bsky.social 🔺 @piroskadora.bsky.social
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My alma mater, and from talking to people it is doing just great these days.
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thi is very interesting. www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
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Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 Call for Applications: Postdocs We’re looking for postdoctoral researchers for the following research areas and topics: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Wealth and Social Inequality 🗓️ Application deadline: Dec. 11 📢 Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/UzLEpr
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researchers. Application Deadline: Dec. 11, 2026
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Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That's the way!
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
70 Fußballfelder Ackerland, Millionen Liter Kühlwasser und ein enormer Stromverbrauch – das Google-Rechenzentrum in Kronstorf betrifft die Region nachhaltig. Es braucht jetzt mehr Bürger_innenbeteiligung und eine transparente Gesamtprüfung. Unterschreibe dafür hier: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/st...
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Jetzt unterzeichnen: GOOGLE Kronstorf. Wir fordern eine transparente Gesamtprüfung aller Risiken!
Der Bau des Google Rechenzentrums in Krontsdorf braucht mehr Transparenz und Kontrolle. Denn die Folgen für Wasser, Stromversorgung und Böden sind noch nicht ausreichend geklärt.
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
70 Fußballfelder Ackerland, Millionen Liter Kühlwasser und ein enormer Stromverbrauch – das Google-Rechenzentrum in Kronstorf betrifft die Region nachhaltig. Es braucht jetzt mehr Bürger_innenbeteiligung und eine transparente Gesamtprüfung. Unterschreibe dafür hier: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/st...
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Jetzt unterzeichnen: GOOGLE Kronstorf. Wir fordern eine transparente Gesamtprüfung aller Risiken!
Der Bau des Google Rechenzentrums in Krontsdorf braucht mehr Transparenz und Kontrolle. Denn die Folgen für Wasser, Stromversorgung und Böden sind noch nicht ausreichend geklärt.
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CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A modern heating system doesn’t need a soloist. It needs a choir. 🎶 Tartu brings together waste heat, river water, thermal storage, district cooling and renewable energy to create a system that reduces fossil fuel dependence. 🎥 See how Tartu found its harmony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCE1...
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Harmony in heat: a new chapter for district energy
YouTube video by Bankwatch
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 30/08/2026
If you're interested in the politics of Silicon Valley, read this about procurement and "patriotic tech warriors" (meant complimentarily) by former Apple VP and head of Defense Innovation Unit instead of ten more pieces about Thiel's musings on the Antichrist. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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America’s Missing Military Revolution
Why Washington still risks losing the tech race.
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This group must be super interesting for @quinnslobodian.com to look at closely www.rhinegroup.eu
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Rhine Group — A stronger, more competitive Europe
The Rhine Group convenes European leaders from business, government, and academia to turn evidence into action for Europe's growth, competitiveness, and innovation.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
More evidence that Warsh wants a Quadrant III Fed (no conferences, no fwd guidance). Fewer FOMC meetings mean a Fed that not only communicates less with the public but also less internally, a set of policies that seem unlikely to produce either financial stability or democratic accountability.
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Warsh Considers Reducing Frequency of Fed Policy Meetings (Gift Article)
The Federal Reserve has met at least eight times a year for decades. Reducing the number of meetings would represent the biggest change by Kevin M. Warsh since he became chairman.
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
even if only 1% has been skimmed, that's $130 million. 🌮 has famously said that he controls disbursements. kleptocracy gone wild. financial times 22 july 2026
The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?
Washington has given diverging accounts of where the earthquake-shattered country’s funds are going
financial times 22 july 2026
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 25/06/2026
I wrote a "casual" introduction to the book, starting with an anecdote about my mom and I getting into an argument about the use of antibiotics. chenchenzhang.net/2026/06/25/a... take a look and I hope the book could make it to your summer reading list!
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A casual introduction to the book
When my parents visited us in England, one day my then 3-year-old son had a minor viral infection and a fever. We took him to the GP and, as expected, were told to give him paracetamol and monitor.…
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 24/06/2026
Die Koalition will einen Rentenfonds nach 🇸🇪 Vorbild, in den 2% des Lohns fließen. Wie schon bei Lindners Aktienrente (remember him?) greift die progressive Kritik an diesem Element der #rentenreform viel zu kurz. Internationale Evidenz zeigt: Kapitaldeckung = Finanzialisierungsmaschine. 🧵
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Jót beszélgettem Lits Benedekkel a Corvinus Egyetem hallgatójával az euróbevezetés és a gazdaságpolitika kapcsolatáról. Itt hallgatható open.spotify.com/episode/2a8K...
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Piroska Dóra: Az eurózónában nem folytatható az Orbán-kormányok aktivista bankpolitikája
Világpolitika és Közgazdaságtan · Episode
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Jót beszélgettem Lits Benedekkel a Corvinus Egyetem hallgatójával az euróbevezetés és a gazdaságpolitika kapcsolatáról. Itt hallgatható open.spotify.com/episode/2a8K...
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Piroska Dóra: Az eurózónában nem folytatható az Orbán-kormányok aktivista bankpolitikája
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CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We’re getting ready for the @ebrd.bsky.social Annual Meeting! On 5-7 June 2026, the EBRD will hold its annual meeting in Riga, Latvia. Like every year, we’ll be there with our civil society partners to advocate for development that benefits people and the planet. 🔗 bankwatch.org/ebrd-annual-...
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Stadt Wien @wien.gv.at · 21/05/2026
Frauen ab 18 Jahren erwarten beim Female First kostenlose Coachings, Workshops, Expert*innen-Talks, Infos zu Förderungen und die Möglichkeit, mit Arbeitgeber*innen ins Gespräch zu kommen. Alle Infos dazu gibt es hier: www.waff.at/e/female-first-frauen-b…
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Csaba G. Tóth @tothgcsaba.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In 2024, 58% of children born in Vienna had a mother born abroad. For Austria as a whole, the figure was 36%. About half of foreign-born mothers came from the EU, especially from Germany and Romania. The rest came from non-EU countries (Syria, Bosnia, Turkey). #demography www.birthbarometer.at/en/
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Don’t miss next week’s session in our online series on Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE): Amy Verdun on “Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies”. 📅 May 27, 3–4pm CET 📍 online 📧 Sign up: maxcpe@mpifg.de @uvic.ca s.gwdg.de/NXuc2p
Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies. Inoperability, Fragmentation and Geofinance. Amy Verdun, University of Victoria.
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Daniel Mügge @dmugge.eurosky.social · 12/05/2026
#AI policy everywhere uses "risk management (RM) frameworks". But that, @leevisaari.eurosky.social and I argue, creates blind spots: future AI harms that cannot be quantified and attributed to specific actors fall by the wayside. RM thus limits democratic control. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Csaba G. Tóth @tothgcsaba.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Aida A. Hozic @hozic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I will never get used to the vacuous synchronicity of American leisure alongside wars: the latest bridal fashion, old Kindles dying, best chocolate. Life goes on in wars, always. But this cover is not about life - it is about forgetting, denial, erasure and … consumption.
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CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
4/🔎Explore the full report and country chapters: bankwatch.org/wp-content/u...
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CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
3/❗At the same time, transition goes beyond the funding cycle, and its impacts will continue well beyond 2027. The experiences of the analysed countries offer significant insight into how the EU can continue supporting regions undergoing transition in the decades to come.
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CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
1/🤔To be or not to be continued? Our new report with Forum Energii explores this question in the context of the Just Transition Fund and its impact in Czechia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania and Spain. bankwatch.org/wp-content/u...
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.chemistryworld.com/news/optimis...
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Optimism rises for Hungarian research after seismic election result
Victorious opposition leader Péter Magyar has promised to reverse restrictions on academic freedom put in place by Viktor Orbán's government
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Mood from Hungary from yesterday, so good: vm.tiktok.com/ZNR4ESNa1/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Congrats Stuart! Looks great! More excellent research on the @ebrd.bsky.social
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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is out in the wild a little sooner than I'd anticipated! If you don't have institutional access - 50 free eprints here www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZFHUM... or just email me.
The image shows the front page of an article in New Political Economy called The collective organic intellectual strikes back.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
more than anything this interview dropping days before the election is more informative of what's going on, and what can be expected telex.hu/english/2026...
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Troops see that the defense minister is not up to the task, and they are hoping for change – the former face of the Hungarian military speaks out
The former face of the Hungarian Armed Forces, who graduated from the British military academy alongside PM Orbán's son, gave an interview to Telex. He described the tensions the defence minister's de...
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I started working on a new paper on Govtech in Ukraine and as I am searching for literature on Govtech I found this interesting paper by the IMF! The Political Economy of Govtech "The main innovation of GovTech is more social than technological" Interesting IMF! www.imf.org/-/media/file...
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CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The EIB Group Complaints Mechanism (EIB-CM) can and should do better‼️ We’ve been banging the drum for years, and the Corridor Vc case is just one of the reasons why. With the EIB-CM currently under review, we’re calling for urgent reform.
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CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Functioning grievance mechanisms are key to protecting human rights and promoting climate justice in development projects! 🔎 Read our Corridor Vc case study here: bankwatch.org/publication/...
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CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
How can the EU’s Social Climate Fund better support vulnerable households in Estonia? A new model from the University of Tartu shows how renovation subsidies could be targeted more fairly by combining technical building data with socio-economic indicators. 🏗️ Read more: bankwatch.org/blog/can-the...
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Can the EU’s Social Climate Fund reach vulnerable households in Estonia? - Bankwatch
As Estonia prepares for the EU’s next long-term budget and financial instruments, it is equally important to assess how these new support measures are designed and reviewed. In collaboration with nati...
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs - DU @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
How has our understanding of the transition from communism evolved? Korbel Prof @epsteinprof.bsky.social joins @piroskadora.bsky.social on the @viennadialogues.bsky.social podcast to discuss why liberal ideas are in crisis and what researchers should do next.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Right now, the problem is that faculty are being asked to "experiment with AI!!!" on their own, piecemeal, and against the massive bulwark of their universities hyping the tech; requiring time spent in dedicated AI-free learning spaces is the sort of the thing that you can't accomplish individually.
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cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
What does a year of German rearmament get you? If you're China, almost decade of cash to change the world's electricity infrastructure. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-china-...
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The China "Solar Dominance" Panic
Life in the Chinese solar tech business is like a gladiator's life. So what?
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Vienna Dialogues - Coffee and International Relations @viennadialogues.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Were we too optimistic about the post-communist turn to liberal markets and democracy? In conversation with Vienna Dialogues, Professor Rachel Epstein (University of Denver) reflects on 35 years of transition - and what we may have misunderstood. Link to the episode: bit.ly/3MskEdA
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...
Stack of books:
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
International Political Economy by Ben Cohen
The Currency of Politics by Stefan Eich
The Globalizers by Ngaire Woods
The Money Laundry by J.C. Sharman
The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor
Bankers' Trust by Aditi Sahasrabuddhe
Unexpected Revolutionaries by Manuela Moschella
Rating Politics by Zsofia Barta and Alison Johnston
Bucking the Buck by Daniel McDowell
The Meddlers by Jamie Martin
The Entangled Legacies of Empire (eds. Gilbert, Bourne, Haiven, and Montgomerie)
Depletion by Shirin Rai
Chip War by Chris Miller
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I’ve seen a lot of breathless praise of Moltbook but I can’t imagine anything less interesting than a Reddit clone where all of the posts and comments are generated by chatbots. It’s impressive to have invented a social network that’s more off putting than Sora, TikTok for AI slop.
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Moltbook AI Social Network: 1.4 Million Agents Build A Digital Society
A new platform, Moltbook, claims to host 1.4 million AI agents in a closed society. Discover why this 'hive mind' signals a dangerous reversal in human cognitive skills.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
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Current opportunities
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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What do you think of this? arstechnica.com/information-...
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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
thedigradio.com
Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek
Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for economic ...
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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Looking to crowdsource some ideas / comments. Thinking about why the US has not pursued a CBDC - aside from domestic political opposition - and the extent to which this reflects a structural logic of full spectrum global dollar dominance. 1/n 🧵
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For your weekend listening pleasure. I did the Top Traders podcast. These folks ask the best questions. Got into loads of interesting stuff. Enjoy: www.toptradersunplugged.com/podcast/when...
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When Capitalism Reboots and Crashes Again ft. Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth dissects the end of neoliberalism, rising power blocs, deficits, migration, and why the global order is sliding into a harsher phase.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
if you think this is incomprehensible jargon (who;d blame you), I've written a few papers, and once dreamt of writing a repo book for the 300 people who'd care to read a deeply technical yet deeply political take on the world's most opaque form of money. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The (impossible) repo trinity: the political economy of repo markets
In its capacity as debt issuer, the state has played a growing role in financial life over the last 30 years. To examine this role and connect it to shadow banking, the paper develops the concept o...
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
still my heart - REPO IS VERY SYSTEMIC piece @alphaville.ft.com 1. We still have no granular data, a full 17 years since run on repo blew up Lehman into a global financial crisis. The OFR now has data on US repo, but European repo is also USD 12 trillion (roughly) www.ft.com/content/220d...
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Repo is even bigger than we thought
A taxonomy of the engorged and utterly systemic US repurchase market
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
My co-author @mkeremcoban.bsky.social and I have written about how this unfolded in the case of Turkey--here is a link to our paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey
Recent debates on financialization in emerging market economies highlight the terms of unequal exchange that they are embedded in, where international capital flows steered by powerful financial ac...
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