Publications and more

Articles

  • ‘Prudential net zero transition plans: the potential of a new regulatory instrument’ (Journal of Banking Regulation; with with Simon Dikau, Nick Robins, Agnieszka Smoleńska and Ulrich Volz)
  • ‘The dysfunctional taboo: Monetary financing at the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank’ (2023 Review of International Political Economy; with Will Bateman) Open Access
  • ‘New strategy, new accountability: The European Central Bank and the European Parliament after the strategy review’ (2023 Common Market Law Review; with Seraina Grünewald)  Open Access
  • ‘Rethinking monetary sovereignty: The global credit money system and the state’ (2023 Perspectives on Politics; with Steffen Murau) Open Access Summary
  • ‘The politics of the ECB’s market-based approach to government debt’ (2023 Socio-Economic Review)  Open Access Summary
  • ‘What to do with the ECB’s secondary mandate’ (2022 Journal of Common Market Studies; with Nik de Boer) Open Access
  • ‘A risky bet: Climate change and the EU’s microprudential framework for banks’ (2022 Journal of Financial Regulation; with Agnieszka Smoleńska) Open Access Summary
  • ‘Technocratic Keynesianism: A paradigm shift without legislative change’ (2022 New Political Economy) Open Access  Summary
  • ‘Marginalism and scope in the early Methodenstreit’ (2022 Journal of the History of Economic Thought) Open Access
  • ‘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

Policy reports, chapters, etc

  • ‘Monetary sovereignty: the euro and strategic internationalization’ (2023 ECB Legal Conference) Chapter
  • ‘Using green credit policy to bring down inflation: what central bankers can learn from history’ (2023  INSPIRE Sustainable Central Banking Policy Brief Series; with Eric Monnet) Report 
  • ‘Reflections on the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize Awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig’ (2023 Eramus Journal of Philosophy and Economics) Open Access
  • ‘The case for a European Credit Council: Historical and constitutional fine-tuning’ (2023 Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium) Open Access
  • ‘Net zero transition plans: A supervisory playbook for prudential authorities’ (2022 LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; with Simon Dikau, Nick Robins, Agnieszka Smoleńska and Ulrich Volz) Report
  • ‘The European Central Bank’s strategy, environmental policy and the new inflation: A case for interest rate differentiation’ (2022 LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment) Report
  • ‘An EP-ECB Interinstitutional agreement on monetary policy’ (2022 European Parliament Greens/EFA group; with Seraina Grünewald) Report
  • ‘Central Banks’ (In: The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory, edited by Richard Bellamy and Jeff King) Chapter
  • ‘The ECB’s financial risk-management from the 1990s until the Pandemic’ (In: The ‘New’ European Central Bank: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead at 20, Oxford University Press, edited by Thomas Beukers, Diane Fromage & Giorgio Monti) Chapter
  • ‘The ECB’s neglected secondary mandate: An inter-institutional solution’ (2021 PMEU; with Nik de Boer) Report
  • ‘A risky bet: Should the EU choose a microprudential or a credit guidance approach to climate risk?’ (2021 EBI Working Paper Series; with Agnieszka Smoleńska) Paper
  • ‘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 & Sustainable Finace Lab; with Rens van Tilburg) 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
  • Ethical Banking and Social Purpose (2015 Cambridge’s Judge Business School; with Marco Meyer)

Recent short pieces

  • ‘Rendre la BCE plus verte et démocratique’ (2024 Institut Avantgarde; with Éric Monnet and Clara Leonard)
  • Submission to the BCBS consultation on a disclosure framework for climate-related financial risk (2024 CETEx policy brief; with Agnieszka Smoleńska, Joseph Feyertag, Lea Reitmeier and Simon Dikau)
  • ‘Central banks’ targeted refinancing operations and the climate transition’ (2024 SUERF Policy Brief No. 793; with Chiara Colesanti Senni and Maria Sole Pagliari)
  • ‘Climate Divergence’ (2023 Phenomenal World; with Monica DiLeo and Glenn Rudebusch)
  • ‘La Banque centrale européenne pourrait accompagner la hausse des taux d’un taux spécial pour le financement des investissements favorables à l’environnement’ (2023 Le Monde; with Eric Monnet)
  • ‘Pecuniary salvation’ (2023 Phenomenal World; with Will Bateman)
  • ‘Tiered reserve requirements can reduce bank lending while protecting sustainable projects’ (2023 OMFIF)
  • ‘How to rethink monetary sovereignty in an era of financial globalization’ (2022 GDP Blog with Steffen Murau)
  • ‘Bestrijd inflatie via prijsplafond en winstmeevallerbelasting’ (2022 ESB)
  • ‘The ECB’s interest-rate balancing act’ (2022 Project Syndicate)
  • ‘De machtigste man van België vindt het klimaat niet zo belangrijk’ (2022 Apache)
  • ‘Inflation: raising rates is not the answer’ (2022 Social Europe; with Hielke Van Doorslaer)
  • ‘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 VerfBlogSocial 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

  • ‘Why the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community’ (2023 Brookings Hutchins Center with Monica DiLeo and Glenn Rudebusch) Paper
  • ‘The CO2 content of the TLTRO III scheme and its greening’ (2023 De Nederlandsche Bank/Grantham Institute; with Chiara Colesanti Senni and Maria Sole Pagliari) Paper
  • ‘New strategy, new accountability: The European Central Bank and the European Parliament after the strategy review’ (2023 European Banking Institute; with Seraina Grünewald) Paper
  • ‘Responsibility for Emissions: the Case of the Swiss National Bank’s Foreign Exchange Reserves and the Norwegian Oil Fund’ (2021 Banque de France; with Alain Naef) Paper
  • ‘The ECB, the courts, and the issue of democratic legitimacy after Weiss’ (2020 European Banking Institute; with Nik de Boer) Paper
  • ‘Financial policy within planetary boundaries’
  • ‘The politics of the NGFS’
  • ‘Hans Jonas, Greek tragedy and the Anthropocene’ (with Ben Folit-Weinberg)
  • ‘The Blindspots of Basel III’
  • ‘Financial inclusion and distributive justice’