Events at the MPIfG

Events at the MPIfG

The events displayed here take place at the main location of the IMPRS, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.

The Politics of Central Banking

  • Start: Jun 1, 2023
  • End: Jun 2, 2023
  • Location: Cologne
Since the global financial crisis, monetary policies have increasingly become re-politicized in advanced economies. The increasing use of unconventional monetary policies had major distributive consequences, which dragged central banks into the realm of noisy politics. This workshop will bring together scholars in political economy and related disciplines to discuss where the politics of central banking is headed. [more]

Whose Privacy? Conflicting Freedoms and Protections in Abortion Policy

IMPRS Colloquium
  • Date: Jun 5, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Danielle Pullan
  • Doctoral Researcher, IMPRS-SPCE

Money(s) and Empire: The US Dollar as Global Quasi-State Money

Scholar in Residence Lecture
  • Date: Jun 6, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Herman Mark Schwartz
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
The dollar sits at the top of the global monetary hierarchy, operating as the core currency for a global economic empire centered on the US economy. Herman Mark Schwartz argues that this central role generates six contradictions or antinomies that threaten this central pillar of US global power. This is the first of three lectures in the series "Triffin Reloaded: The Matrix of Contradictions around the Dollar’s Global Dominance" by the MPIfG's this year's Scholar in Residence. [more]

Explaining Differences in Free Riding Beliefs: A Theory and Preliminary Evidence

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Arianna Tassinari, Björn Bremer, and Lucio Baccaro. [more]
Die Tagung nimmt die einhergehende Radikalisierung von Unsicherheit zum Anlass zu fragen, welchen Beitrag wir zum Verständnis und zur Bewältigung dieses „Zeitalters der Krisen“ leisten können. Sie möchte sowohl die Potentiale als auch die Grenzen wirtschaftssoziologischer Zugänge zu Krisen und Kriegen ausloten und Anstöße geben, in welche Richtung sich wirtschaftssoziologische Forschung fruchtbar erweitern lässt. Sie lädt dazu ein, Gemeinsamkeiten, Unterschiede und Wechselwirkungen zwischen Krieg und Krise aus wirtschaftssoziologischer Perspektive zu reflektieren. [more]

Capital Flows and Germany's Current Account: A Theoretical Clarification and an Empirical Test

IMPRS Colloquium
  • Date: Jun 19, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andreas Maschke
  • Visiting Doctoral Student (University of Leeds)

Contradictions and Dynamics of Global Quasi-State Money: Triffin Reloaded

Scholar in Residence Lecture
  • Date: Jun 20, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Herman Mark Schwartz
  • University of Virginia
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
The dollar sits at the top of the global monetary hierarchy, operating as the core currency for a global economic empire centered on the US economy. Herman Mark Schwartz argues that this central role generates six contradictions or antinomies that threaten this central pillar of US global power.This is the second of three lectures in the series "Triffin Reloaded: The Matrix of Contradictions around the Dollar’s Global Dominance" by the MPIfG's this year's Scholar in Residence. [more]

The Dollar and Its (Lack of) Rivals: A Balance Sheet of Imperial Monetary Power

Scholar in Residence Lecture
  • Date: Jul 4, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Herman Mark Schwartz
  • University of Virginia
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
The dollar sits at the top of the global monetary hierarchy, operating as the core currency for a global economic empire centered on the US economy. Herman Mark Schwartz argues that this central role generates six contradictions or antinomies that threaten this central pillar of US global power.This is the third and last of three lectures in the series "Triffin Reloaded: The Matrix of Contradictions around the Dollar’s Global Dominance" by the MPIfG's this year's Scholar in Residence. [more]

A Constructivist Institutionalist Approach to European Capitalist Restructuring: ECB Ideas on Fiscal Policy and Structural Reforms

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Arianna Tassinari, Björn Bremer, and Lucio Baccaro. [more]

States, Markets, and Foreign Aid

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Jul 5, 2023
  • Time: 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Simone Dietrich
  • Université de Genève
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
Why do some donor governments pursue international development through recipient governments, while others bypass such local authorities? Simone Dietrich will argue in her talk that the bureaucratic institutions of donor countries shape donor–recipient interactions differently despite similar international and recipient country conditions. [more]

Closing Workshop of the Max Planck Partner Group for the Sociology of Economic Life

Workshop
  • Date: Sep 5, 2023

Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy

  • Start: Sep 11, 2023
  • End: Sep 14, 2023
  • Location: Cologne
The Summer School will address the continued underrepresentation of women in the field of Comparative and International Political Economy. It is intended to be an inclusive event and explicitly welcomes women, non-binary people, and all people of marginalized genders. [more]

Demokratie unter Stress

16. Institutstag des MPIfG
Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts stehen Demokratien vor vielfältigen Herausforderungen, die sich gegenseitig beeinflussen und zum Teil verstärken. Symptome dieser Lage sind der Vertrauensrückgang in politische Institutionen und der augenscheinliche Dauerstress, unter dem zentrale politische und gesellschaftliche Akteure stehen. [more]
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