This is a list of some of my recent work and projects under development. Contact me if you are interested in any of these topics.

Articles

• ‘Technocratic Keynesianism: a paradigm shift without legislative change’ (forthcoming in New Political Economy) Open Access
• ‘Marginalism and Scope in the Early Methodenstreit’ (forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought) Preprint
• ‘The ECB, the Courts, and the Issue of Democratic Legitimacy after Weiss’ (2020 Common Market Law Review; with Nik de Boer) Preprint
• ‘The Myth of Market Neutrality: A Comparative Study of the European Central Bank’s and the Swiss National Bank’s Corporate Security Purchases’ (2020 New Political Economy; with Clément Fontan)  Open Access
• ‘The Ethics of Delegating Monetary Policy’ (2020 Journal of Politics; winner of the 2018 EFI Financial Imagination prize) Open Access
• ‘Central Banking in Rawls’s Property-Owning Democracy’ (2019 Political Theory) Summary Open Access
• ‘The Social Purpose of Corporations’ (2019 Journal of the British Academy; with Nien-hê Hsieh, Marco Meyer and David Rodin)
• ‘Democracy and the European Central Bank’s Emergency Powers‘ (2018 Midwest Studies in Philosophy; special issue on ‘Responsibility and the Global Financial Crisis’, eds. James Dempsey and Tom Sorell) Scandal Open Access

Chapters and reports

• ‘Central Banks’ (forthcoming in The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory, edited by Richard Bellamy and Jeff King) Chapter
• The ECB’s neglected secondary mandate: An inter-institutional solution (2021 PMEU; with Nik de Boer) Report
• ‘Herontdekking van de geldpers vereist nieuwe visie op staatsschuld’ (2021 ESB)
• The ECB’s conundrum and 21st century monetary policy: How European monetary policy can be green, social and democratic (2021 Finanzwende & Heinrich-Böll-Foundation) Report
• ‘Greening Banks in the Face of Uncertainty. On the ECB’s New Supervisory Approach to Environmental and Climate-Related Risks’ (2020 VerfBlog; with Agnieszka Smoleńska)
• Targeting a sustainable recovery with Green TLTROs (2020 PMEU & SFL) Report
• ‘Review of “Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State“, Paul Tucker. Princeton University Press, 2018, 656 pages.’ (Economics & Philosophy) Open Access
• ‘A Parliament for the Eurozone’ (2019 Twelve Stars: Philosophers Chart a Course for Europe TwelveStars.eu) Chapter
• ‘Methodenstreit’ (2017 The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory) Article
• Ethical Banking and Social Purpose (2015; with Marco Meyer, commissioned report for Cambridge’s Judge Business School)

Recent short pieces

• ‘The ECB Cannot Ignore its Secondary Mandate’ (2021 VerfBlog; with Nik de Boer)
• ‘Pierre Wunsch heeft het parlement iets uit te leggen’ (2021 De Standaard, Minerva; with Frank Vanaerschot, Hielke Van Doorslaer en Mattias Vermeiren)
• ‘Central banks remain stuck in the myth of ‘market neutrality’ (2021 Social Europe; with Clément Fontan)
• ‘ECB needs political guidance on secondary objectives’ (2021 Le Monde, Il Sole 24 Ore, Makronom, Euractiv, De Tijd, NRC; with seven co-authors)
• ‘The ECB, the climate and the interpretation of “price stability”’ (2021 Roundtable: Monetary Policy in the EU Just Money)
• ‘The ECB needs to do more to “green” its monetary policy’ (2020 Financial Times Alphaville)
• ‘Dat Nederland met de gulden weer een eigen monetair beleid kan voeren is een illusie’ (2020 Trouw)
• ‘The ECB must shift to a wholesale acceptance of junk bonds’ (2020 Financial Times Alphaville)
• ‘Why the US Congress gives dollars to the Fed’ (2020 Roundtable: Money in the Time of Coronavirus Just Money)
• ‘Keeping the promise of Eurozone convergence’ (2020 Social Europe; with Philipp Heimberger, Max Krahé, and Dominic Ponattu)
• ‘How the Commission’s Covid-19 State Aid Rules increase regional inequalities within the EU’ (2020 VerfBlog & Social Europe; with Lena Hornkohl)
• ‘Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse im Euroraum’ (2020 FAZ; with Philipp Heimberger, Max Krahé, and Dominic Ponattu)
• ‘Das Pandemie-Notfallankaufprogramm der EZB (PEPP) könnte ein historischer Wendepunkt sein’ (2020 Dezernat Zukunft)
• ‘The ECB’s Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme a big deal; here’s why’ (2020 Digressions & Impressions) Part I Part II
• ‘Rewarding virtuous citizens’ (2019 VerfBlog Debate on the Chinese social credit system)
• ‘Top of Lagarde’s ECB to-do list: stop QE and democratise monetary policy’ (2019 Social Europe)

Working papers (available on request)

• ‘A risky bet: Should the EU choose a microprudential or a credit guidance approach to climate risk?’ (EBI Working Paper Series; with Agnieszka Smoleńska) ssrn
• ‘Economic Policy and the Study of Normative Blind Spots’
• ‘Financial Risk Management and the ECB’s Treatment of Sovereign Debt’
• ‘Technocracy and the Ethics of Central Bank Risk Management’
• ‘Rethinking Monetary Sovereignty’ (with Steffen Murau) draft
• ‘The Legal Institutions of the Monetary Financing Prohibition’ (with Will Bateman)
• ‘Financial Inclusion and Distributive Justice’