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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 16h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 21d

this is fascinating!

Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️

It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...

It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Short 🧵 ...

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️

It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...

It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Short 🧵 ...

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 28d

A highly recommended read, and folllow. Congrats, @maxwillems.bsky.social!

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks, Dan

Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks, Philipp :)

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks, Mark!
(&: not as much as one might think, in this case)

Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks, Ben!

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

Indebted to many colleagues for great help - special thanks to issue/lead editor @danmertens.bsky.social and to @benbraun.bsky.social for early advice [5/5]

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

I attribute this to the ongoing coalition building of the Commission and key energy incumbents, whose evolving preferences and resources reflect a rapidly changing and increasingly geopoliticized energy policy environment.

More here 👇 - happy about any feedback! [4/5]

From states to markets and back? The European Union’s decades-long struggle over renewable energy derisking

Since the 1990s, policymakers have been grappling with the challenge of financing the transition to renewable energy, which requires much higher upfront capital investments than fossil fuel-based e...

doi.org

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

Then asks why the European regime shifted - first (post-GFC) from a robust (though politically contested) technology-development to a market-based approach, and later (since ~2017) partly reverted to a hybrid model [3/5]

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

The article introduces a simple typology of RE derisking instruments, drawing on @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social and others, to make sense of policy support of renewable energy investments in Europe [2/5]

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d

Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️

It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...

It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Short 🧵 ...

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 29d

Indebted to many colleagues for great help - special thanks to issue/lead editor @danmertens.bsky.social and to @benbraun.bsky.social for early advice [5/5]

Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 29d

I attribute this to the ongoing coalition-building of the Commission and key energy incumbents, whose evolving preferences and resources reflect a rapidly changing and increasingly geopoliticized energy policy environment.

More here 👇 - happy about any feedback! [4/5]

From states to markets and back? The European Union’s decades-long struggle over renewable energy derisking

Since the 1990s, policymakers have been grappling with the challenge of financing the transition to renewable energy, which requires much higher upfront capital investments than fossil fuel-based e...

doi.org

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 29d

Then asks why the European regime shifted - first (post-GFC) from a robust (though politically contested) technology-development to a market-based approach, and later (since ~2017) partly reverted to a hybrid model [3/5]

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 29d

The article introduces a simple typology of RE derisking instruments, drawing on @danielagabor.bsky.social/@benbraun.bsky.social and others, to make sense of policy support of renewable energy investments in Europe [2/5]

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · Sep 1

Since the start of von der Leyen's second mandate, EU sustainable finance norms face intense dismantling pressures. My new @JEPP article shows this started years ago when the fossil fuel industry “woke up” to the EU Taxonomy. 🧵 #EUTaxonomy #SustainableFinance👇 1/10

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Riccardo Baioni @riccardobaioni.bsky.social · Jul 28

Happy to share a new open-access article from the SuFi project at Witten/Herdecke University, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @simonschairer.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good

The Capital Markets Union (CMU) project aims to create more integrated capital markets in Europe. However, the project faces resistance, and despite ongoing efforts EU capital markets remain fragme...

www.tandfonline.com

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · May 30

We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand

Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · Apr 24

Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier

This article brings together Growth Model Theory and climate change under the assumption that economic growth will remain a policy priority during the green transition. The relevant research questi...

www.tandfonline.com

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · Mar 20

The fiscal breakthrough in Germany is setting a clear direction: Military deficit spending has priority above everything else, the only budget with no limit. The defence spending goal dwarfs the deficit spending available for climate.

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Mar 22

“No one should simply blame the current regime. They announced their intentions. Rather, it’s the rapid capitulation that we have to confront.”

-Jodi Dean

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · Mar 22

In the words of Jodi dean

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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · Mar 21

Unfortunately cancelled due to (very) bad weather/potential flooding! 😬

Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · Mar 20

Looking forward to presenting some of my dissertation research at ICEI’s Comparative Political Economy seminar tomorrow. Swing by!

Luis Cardenas del Rey @lcdr.bsky.social · Mar 14

En la próxima sesión del Foro EPC en el ICEI-UCM. Presentará
@maxwillems.bsky.social, PhD researcher en
@mpifg.bsky.social, su trabajo "Decarbonising Growth: The Comparative Political Economy of Renewable Energy Transitions in Europe”:

⏰ 21/03/2025 16:00
📌 ICEI: acortar.link/3HF8auEl

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