MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025

Matthias Thiemann
 

Matthias Thiemann is Professor for European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris.

Matthias Thiemann is a sociologist with close affinities to political economy. He analyses the attempts of financial regulators in Europe and the US to control the risk taking behavior of agents in the financial industry, an attempt complicated by the fact that these agents gain from evading such control. He investigates post-crisis regulatory changes in the US asking why certain ideas that gained prominence post-crisis are translated into policy tools, while others are eschewed by policy makers. Methodologically, he draws on expert interviews and document analysis, but also citation network analysis and topic modeling.