Bob Hancké

Contact details: European Institute London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE Tel +44 207955-6409 Fax +44 207955-7546 r.hancke@lse.ac.uk for maps of London and the LSE, click here.

Short biography My detailed CV Link to Experts entry on LSE homepage	I am a Reader in European Political Economy in the European Institute of the LSE, where I teach: EU443 European Models of Capitalism (with Richard Bronk -EU443 syllabus); EU444/EU446 Institutions and Politics of EMU (with Kevin Featherstone and Waltraud Schelkle -EU444/EU446 syllabus). EU553 Ph.D Workshop in Political Economy (with Walttraud Schelkle and Vassilis Monastiriotis --EU553 syllabus) EU554 Research Design and Methods (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) (with Damian Chalmers -EU554 syllabus); I studied sociology (Licentiaat --roughly equivalent to MA or M.Sc.) at the Free University Brussels, and political science (Ph.D.) at MIT. From 1994 to 2000, I worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. In Berlin, I was involved, with many others, in the project that resulted in Varieties of Capitalism, edited by Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (Oxford University Press 2001). I have been a co-director of EPIC, the European Political-Economy Infrastructure Consortium, a three-year advanced training program for doctoral researchers in Political Economy funded by the European Commission. A final report is in preparation and will be posted on the EPIC website as soon as it is available. In 2002, I published Large Firms and Institutional Change- Industrial Renewal and Economic Restructuring in France (Oxford University Press 2002). My research has appeared in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, European Political Economy Review (see below), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (pdf here), Industry and Innovation (pdf here), Politics and Society, Organization Studies, European Journal of Industrial Relations (pdf here), British Journal of Industrial Relations, Small Business Economics (pdf here), Travail et Emploi, and New Technology, Work and Employment. I also contributed to several edited volumes.
Current Research	Fiscal policy and wage co-ordination in the European single currency area. Institutions, economic growth and employment in EMU: Institutional prerequisites for co-ordinated wage and fiscal policy. This project, which was financed by the Hans-Böckler Foundation (the research foundation of the German trade unions), is jointly carried out with David Soskice of Duke University and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. The aim of the project is to try and understand how the institutions of macro-economic policy-making --in particular of fiscal and wage policies-- have changed under EMU, and how they (can) contribute to low-inflation economic growth. Our final report, which you can download, is entitled Wage-setting, fiscal policy and political exchange in EMU. A German version of the report, which will be published by the Hans-Boeckler- Foundation, can be downloaded here. Meanwhile, parts of this report have found their way into publications: a chapter in Philippe Pochet (ed.), Wage Policy in the Eurozone (Brussels: PIE-Peter Lang) 2002, pp. 131-148, based on the chapters on wage-setting in the report can be downloaded here; the version of the chapter on fiscal policy in the interim report (meanwhile revised) became the basis for an article I wrote for the new European Political Economy Review EPER. David Soskice and I also reformulated some of our ideas on wage-setting and inflation targets for an article in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (Vol. 19- 1, pp. 149-160). With Martin Rhodes from the EUI in Florence I wrote a paper on Social pacts, incomes policies and EMU, which is published in Work and Occupations (Vol. 32:2, May 2005, pp. 196-238); uncorrected proofs of this article can be downloaded here. I recently wrote a short article for Die Mitbestimmung, the journal of the Hans-Boeckler-Foundation, trying to dispel some myths on the state of the German economy, which can be downloaded (in English) here. At the moment, I am working on a paper with Andrea Herrmann of the EUI on the impact of EMU on competitive positioning of companies in the different models of European capitalism (for the Beyond Varieties of Capitalism project --see below), and on a book based on this research, with the tentative title From Social Pacts to Political Exchange. Rethinking the Political Economy of EMU. I hope to be able to post a first draft of the manuscript --or at least of some of the draft chapters-- on this website over the next few months.   State and Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe. Since September 2004, I have started work on another project with my colleague Abby Innes on 'State and Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe' (aka STACEE), which is part of the NEWGOV project run by the EUI in Florence. Working papers and research notes are made available via the NewGov website.    Institutions and economy in contemporary capitalism In the margins of these empirical projects, I have started to think through more systematically the implications of my research for wider debates on institutions in political-economic analysis. Unedited proofs of a recent paper on that, which I co-authored with Michel Goyer of Warwick University, and appeared in Changing Capitalisms: Internationalisation, Institutional Change and Systems of Economic Organization, edited by Richard Whitley, Glenn Morgan and Eli Moen, Oxford University Press (2005): 53-77, can be found here. I also wrote a review article for European Political Science on institutional change, which can be downloaded here. I am also finishing an edited volume, tentatively entitled Beyond Varieties of Capitalism. Conflict, complementarities and institutional change in European capitalism, with Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher (and published by Oxford University Press in 2006). Table of contents and introductory chapter will be posted here when they become available.

last updated: 21 October 2005