Mischa Stratenwerth Awarded Doctorate

Mischa Stratenwerth successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the beginning of June. In “Interest Groups and Macroeconomic Policy in the Export-led German Growth Model: Business Associations, Trade Unions, and the Reproduction of the Undervaluation Regime,” Stratenwerth examines how national economic growth models are shaped by macroeconomic policies, institutions, and ideas, and what political and social support is needed to maintain them. Reconstructing the positions of the most important German interest groups from various sectors of the economy on Germany’s export-led growth strategy, he analyzes the relevant political debates on the topic. The focus in his dissertation is on whether there have been significant sector-based or class-based differences in support for export-led growth and why it is not questioned more by sectoral actors who clearly do not benefit from it. Mischa Stratenwerth was a doctoral researcher at the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) from 2018 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the MPIfG’s Political Economy Research Area.