Warum nahmen die Unternehmensübernahmen chinesischer Investoren in Deutschland und der EU ab 2011 zu und stiegen zwischen 2015 und 2017 besonders stark an? Diese Studie beantwortete diese Frage, indem sie empirisch die folgenden drei Themen untersuchte: die chinesischen Investoren, die zwischen 2011 und 2019 deutsche Unternehmen übernommen haben, die Entwicklung des chinesischen Finanzsektors zwischen 2009 und 2017 und die M&A-freundliche regulatorische Umgebung während der Amtszeit des 18. Zentralkomitees der ...

The aim of my research is to explore the political economy of ordoliberalism in its historical trajectory. Beginning from the years of its inception during the interwar period, the dissertation focuses on the specific conditions and political economy of the Weimar Republic as the framework within which the ordoliberal framework was developed. Moving on to the postwar period, the dissertation examines the attempts of operationalization of the ordoliberal framework within the context of West Germany and the social ...

The PhD thesis "The Passive Revolution of Good Living: Class Struggle and Productive Transformation Policy in Ecuador (2007-2017)" suggests an interpretation of Ecuador's so-called ‘Citizens’ Revolution’ – CR – as the political project of a 'cadre fraction’: a ‘state class fraction’ whose legitimacy and political power is grounded in specialized knowledge and planning capabilities. Breaking the “catastrophic equilibrium” in which the anti-neoliberal forces and the dominant classes ended up at the beginning of the ...