Outreach
Op-Eds and Commentary:
- 📰 Jun 2026 — Still bankrupt: Social democracy and austerity in the 2020s. Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy 34(2):41-54 (with Sean McDaniel).
- 📰 Nov 2025 — To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how. The Guardian (with Tarik Abou-Chadi and Silja Häusermann).
- 📰 Dec 2024 — Despite 2024’s ‘greenlash’, the fight against climate breakdown can still be won. Here’s how. The Guardian (with Jane Gingrich and Hanna Schwander).
- 📰 Feb 2023 — Waar zijn de sociaaldemocratische kiezers gebleven? Samenleving & Politiek 30(2) (with Line Rennwald).
- 📰 Aug 2022 — Threats and solidarity in the Eurozone: How Italian and German citizens respond to information about Italexit. LSE EUROPP Blog (with Lucio Baccaro and Erik Neimanns).
- 📰 Apr 2021 — Opposition to austerity outweighs support for the euro in Italy. LSE EUROPP Blog (with Lucio Baccaro and Erik Neimanns).
- 📰 Nov 2020 — The EU can improve the political sustainability of Next Generation EU by making it a long-term structure. VoxEU (with Theresa Kuhn, Maurits Meijers, and Francesco Nicoli).
- 📰 May 2020 — Corona solidarity. EUIdeas Blog (with Philipp Genschel).
- 📄 Apr 2020 — Geduldig am Abgrund. Jacques Delors Centre, Policy Position (with Nils Redeker).
- 📰 Apr 2020 — Everyone thinks that Germans oppose ‘coronabonds’. Our research shows how they’re wrong. Monkey Cage, Washington Post (with Lucio Baccaro and Erik Neimanns).
- 📰 Apr 2020 — Now is the moment to revive the fiscal contract. Radix (with Leon Wansleben).
- 📰 Mar 2020 — The coronavirus is reducing Merkel’s EU legacy to ashes. Foreign Policy (with Matthias Matthijs).
- 📰 Nov 2019 — Sind die Wähler schuld an mangelnder europäischer Solidarität? DVPW Blog (with Philipp Genschel).
- 📰 Jun 2019 — Germany’s growth model under attack? AICGS Blog.
- 📰 Apr 2019 — Why Germany and the US should embark on a large-scale investment program now. AICGS Blog.
- 📰 Sep 2017 — The crisis of the SPD: Where now for Germany’s social democrats? LSE EUROPP Blog.
- 📰 Feb 2017 — Hope for Europe’s social democrats? Why Martin Schulz might reinvigorate the SPD but struggle to become chancellor. WZB Democracy Blog.
Policy Writing:
- 📄 2025 — Introduction: The Politics of Housing. PPRNet Research Brief (with Tarik Abou-Chadi and Silja Häusermann).
- 📄 2024 — Introduction: The political viability of climate policies. PPRNet Research Brief (with Jane Gingrich and Hanna Schwander).
- 📄 2024 — Why social democratic parties do not benefit from orthodox fiscal policies. PPRNet Research Brief.
- 📄 2024 — Why the rise of green parties does not threaten the welfare state. PPRNet Research Brief (with Hanna Schwander).
- 📄 2017 — International investments and current account imbalances: The importance of valuation changes. DIW Round-up 117 (with Guido Baldi and Thore Schlaak).
- 📄 2015 — The evolution of Germany’s net foreign asset position. DIW Economic Bulletin 22+23/2015 (with Guido Baldi).
- 📄 2013 — More growth through higher investment. DIW Economic Bulletin 08/2013 (with Stefan Bach, Guido Baldi, Kerstin Bernoth, Beatrice Farkas, Ferdinand Fichtner, Marcel Fratzscher, and Martin Gornig).
Media Coverage and Podcasts:
- 🎙 May 2026 — Fehlende Wohnungen: Wie die Wohnungsnot und das Bauen als Kapitalanlage zusammenhängen. Deutschlandfunk, Systemfragen.
- 📰 Apr 2026 — Forschungsfrage: Ist Staatsverschuldung den Menschen egal? Die Presse.
- 🎙 May 2025 — Why the left keeps losing (or does it)? The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth, Watson Institute, Brown University (with Paul Pierson).
- 🎙 Feb 2025 — Björn Bremer on Austerity Politics and the Debt Brake. Political Science? No problem et al.! podcast.
- 📰 Feb 2024 — Research on social democracy and fiscal policy featured in Die Zeit.
- 📰 Jan 2024 — Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’. The Guardian.
- 📰 Jun 2023 — The problems ailing western Europe’s left are not just cyclical. The Economist.
- 🎙 Sep 2021 — Sparen oder Investieren auf Pump – Die Schuldenfrage im Wahlkampf. Deutschlandfunk.
- 📰 Sep 2021 — Wo sich der Investitionsstau seit der Wiedervereinigung am meisten verschärft hat. Wirtschaftswoche.
- 🎙 Dec 2020 — Episode 17 – Austerity Politics. Transformation of European Politics podcast.
- 📰 May 2020 — Europäische Solidarität zu Coronazeiten: Coronabonds beliebter als gedacht. TAZ.