I am a political economist researching the politics of global finance, investigating post-crisis transformations of the global financial system and their impact on the global norms, institutions and governance that underpin the global economy. Currently, I am a Senior Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded ‘StateCapFinance’ research project which analyses national variety in the configurations of states, markets and finance within the global financial system. I am also a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation & Regionalisation (Warwick).

My current book project Capital Markets with Chinese Characteristics investigates that capital markets are not uniform entities and how capital markets in China function fundamentally different from ‘global’ markets because the organisation of these markets is informed by different institutional logics. Going beyond debates on convergence, this book offers a novel perspective on China’s increasing integration into global markets.

Next to China, my research also explores the role of infrastructures in the politics of global finance as well as broader post-crisis transformation of the global financial system. This includes projects on the variety of capital markets, asset manager capitalism, methodological approaches to research finance, global finance in China and changing actor constellations in the global financial system.

I am also the speaker of the International Political Economy Working Group of the German Political Science Association (DVPW), a Management Committee member of the China in Europe (CHERN) COST-Action Research Network and an Associate Editor of the journal Competition & Change.

Research Cluster affliation

International Political Economy Research Cluster