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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 22d

Me when my paper's policy implications still haven't been implemented one year into into the peer review process.

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Csaba G. Tóth @tothgcsaba.bsky.social · 24d

Over the last two decades, Romania, Czechia and Slovakia cut their life expectancy gap with the EU27. But Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria remain stuck — showing little convergence.
#demography #lifespan #Poland #Hungary #Romania

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 31

Please read my papers as well 😀
David Karas, Andrea Elteto, Gergo Medve-Balint, Magdolna Sass, Dora Győrffy are also excellent sources on political economy of Orban.

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 31

Except that he neglects the political economic underpinnings of the Orban regim that makes it a lot stronger and harder to change.

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · Aug 28

CBI is legitimised by 2 arguments. Progressives should defend 1 and keep fighting against 2.
1. Classic separations of powers. The king should not held the purse directly
2. The inflation nutter credibility argument (k&p77,b&g82,rogoff85) whereby the cb plays a discipline role against labor demands

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · Aug 27

A lot of us have been struggling to reconcile our criticisms of Fed independence with the fact that defense of the Fed is, at this moment, critical to the defense of liberal government. Tooze’s latest grasps this nettle more firmly than anything else I’ve seen. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here is the URL: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary - Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska, M. Kerem Coban, 2025

This paper studies the evolution of the domestic banking sector in Hungary and Turkey where Viktor Orban and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have intervened to politically...

journals.sagepub.com

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 22

Our latest paper on how far authoritarian leaders can go to instrumentalize the local banks for political survival.

It should be of interest to US colleagues and anyone interested in US politics.

Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here is the URL: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary - Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska, M. Kerem Coban, 2025

This paper studies the evolution of the domestic banking sector in Hungary and Turkey where Viktor Orban and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have intervened to politically...

journals.sagepub.com

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 12

Interested in how authoritarian leaders use banks within their inherited neoliberal polity on the global semi-periphery?

To get clues what might Trump be tempted to do with the FED and the banks?

check out our latest article on Hungary and Turkey.

M. Kerem Coban @mkeremcoban.bsky.social · Aug 6

♨️Hot off the press

The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online

Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇

doi.org/10.1177/1024...

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · Aug 12

the FT read Miran (Trump's appointee to the FED) so i didn't have to, and i read the FT so you don't have to. Miran's proposals for FED "independence" substantively:

www.ft.com/content/cc45...
free link with registration.

excerpt from a Financial Times article showing that Trump FED appointee Stephen Miran wants to decrease the independence of the US central bank

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 12

thanks!

we just published a paper on Turkey and Hungary and banking. So if you need clues how far authoritarian leaders may go to instrumentalize central banks and banks for political purposes, please have a look here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary - Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska, M. Kerem Coban, 2025

This paper studies the evolution of the domestic banking sector in Hungary and Turkey where Viktor Orban and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have intervened to politically...

journals.sagepub.com

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 12

Interested in how authoritarian leaders use banks within their inherited neoliberal polity on the global semi-periphery?

To get clues what might Trump be tempted to do with the FED and the banks?

check out our latest article on Hungary and Turkey.

M. Kerem Coban @mkeremcoban.bsky.social · Aug 6

♨️Hot off the press

The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online

Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇

doi.org/10.1177/1024...

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M. Kerem Coban @mkeremcoban.bsky.social · Aug 6

♨️Hot off the press

The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online

Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇

doi.org/10.1177/1024...

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 7

I have a new paper out. Maybe you are intetested. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 7

thank you so much!

Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thank you, I check these out for sure.

Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 7

No, more like an example for an empirical work defined by a Marxisit theoretical point of view

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 7

so historical materialist, I guess

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 7

I would like to include a new, recently published book from this tradition into my PhD IPE intro course for next academic year. Which new book would you recommend? thanks!

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · Aug 5

Free books!

For reasons too complicated to explain I now have multiple copies of all of the books 👇… if you’re fairly local (ie. in the UK) and would like any/all of them please let me know…

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thank you!

Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 1

I would also certainly add its potential for surveillance...

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Aug 1

I wonder a lot about stable coins and digital euros. Are they both a form of payment system such as Visa and Master Cards? If yes, to what extent they effect monetary policy or financial stability? I really do not understand.

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Jul 29

Also, the Baltics have been experimenting with Fintech promotion as a kind of industrial policy in the last few years. Doing what @drscottjames.bsky.social has just observed in the UK and EU, altering the post-GFC epistem of regulation See this paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech

A regulatory sandbox is an emerging tool for addressing the challenges posed by the FinTech industry, but countries have embraced it to varying degrees. There is a need to systematically examine the ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ylönen, Matti, Ringa Raudla, and Milan Babic. "From Tax Havens to Cryptocurrencies: Secrecy-Seeking Capital in the Global Economy." Review of International Political Economy 31, no. 2 (2024): 563–588. Published online July 14, 2023. doi.org/10.1080/0969...

This is a very good paper.

doi.org

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · Jul 29

Totally! I find myself on the side of the central bankers on this issue, a very strange feeling....

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