Alexander Reisenbichler
Biographic Data
| ID | 300065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Reisenbichler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Reisenbichler |
| SIGNATURE | REISENBICHLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8024-9521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Not so different after all? household attitudes toward financialisation in Germany and the United Kingdom
Cause for Celebration or Concern? Voter Reactions to Rising House Prices
Little is known about voters’ demands in response to rising house prices. We argue that voters’ house-price perceptions and housing policy preferences depend on countries’ differing economic institutions. In the UK’s liberal welfare and credit regimes, we expect voters to view house-price growth as a comparatively positive sign for the economy and show little demand for policies restraining prices. In Germany’s generous welfare and restrictive cr…
Housing and Party Politics in Germany and Its Länder
Amid a persistent affordability crisis, German political parties increasingly frame housing as the "new social question of our time." But to what extent do parties at the national and regional levels also agree on solutions, given Germany's stark regional housing differences and regionalized housing policymaking? Using a novel dataset on party positions toward housing, we analyzed 361 party manifestos from national and Länder elections between 20…
From Merkelmania to Malaise
The article places the current malaise afflicting the Federal Republic of Germany in a post-war historical context. It argues that the recent reversal in Chancellor Angela Merkel's academic and journalistic fortunes-from darling to devil within a few short years-reflects a broader schizophrenia in the intelligentsia's views on Germany's economy. Since the early 1950s, opinion has swung, almost violently, from fawning adoration to dark pessimism. …
Entrenchment or Retrenchment
Why do mortgage subsidies vary across countries? Until the 2000s, the U.S. and Germany provided large-scale subsidies for homeownership. Yet, their paths diverged when they faced deep economic crises at that time. While the U.S. doubled down on government support by quasi-nationalizing its mortgage market, Germany retrenched homeowner subsidies. This article argues that growth regimes shape coalitional logics that explain these contrasting outcom…
Riding the Tiger
This article examines the political and economic dynamics of welfare markets in the USA. These marketplaces differ from other public–private welfare arrangements in that the state crafts and sustains these markets with the aim of using competition to promote cost-effective welfare provision. However, welfare markets face fundamental tensions between competition and stability that we trace to the allocation of risk between the state and private pr…
Dissertation List
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The politics of quantitative easing and housing stimulus by the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, 2008‒2018
Central banks have been important yet underexplored actors in the fight against the Great Recession. In addition to ultra-low interest rates, they adopted large-scale bond-buying programmes known as quantitative easing (QE). Yet there is significant variation in QE programmes with important distributive consequences. Why has the Fed adopted multi-trillion-dollar bond-buying programmes in housing, while the ECB has not? This article argues that th…
The domestic sources and power dynamics of regulatory networks
Regulatory networks are key elements of the global economy, but little is known about their variation. Why do some states prefer the creation of state-centered networks, while others advocate technocratic networks? This article addresses this question by examining the creation of the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) in 1999. It advances an argument about how domestic regulatory structures and state power explain the variation in regulatory network…
From 'Sick Man' to 'Miracle
What explains Germany's exceptional labor market performance during the Great Recession of 2008-09? Contrary to accounts that emphasize employment protection legislation or government policy (i.e., short-time work), this article argues that actions by firms-embedded in ever-changing coordinative institutional structures-were crucial. Firms chose to keep rather than shed labor, a strategy induced by (i) a 'toolkit' of flexible labor market instrum…
The politics of quantitative easing and housing stimulus by the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, 2008‒2018
Central banks have been important yet underexplored actors in the fight against the Great Recession. In addition to ultra-low interest rates, they adopted large-scale bond-buying programmes known as quantitative easing (QE). Yet there is significant variation in QE programmes with important distributive consequences. Why has the Fed adopted multi-trillion-dollar bond-buying programmes in housing, while the ECB has not? This article argues that th…
From 'Sick Man' to 'Miracle
What explains Germany's exceptional labor market performance during the Great Recession of 2008-09? Contrary to accounts that emphasize employment protection legislation or government policy (i.e., short-time work), this article argues that actions by firms-embedded in ever-changing coordinative institutional structures-were crucial. Firms chose to keep rather than shed labor, a strategy induced by (i) a 'toolkit' of flexible labor market instrum…
Entrenchment or Retrenchment
Why do mortgage subsidies vary across countries? Until the 2000s, the U.S. and Germany provided large-scale subsidies for homeownership. Yet, their paths diverged when they faced deep economic crises at that time. While the U.S. doubled down on government support by quasi-nationalizing its mortgage market, Germany retrenched homeowner subsidies. This article argues that growth regimes shape coalitional logics that explain these contrasting outcom…
The domestic sources and power dynamics of regulatory networks
Regulatory networks are key elements of the global economy, but little is known about their variation. Why do some states prefer the creation of state-centered networks, while others advocate technocratic networks? This article addresses this question by examining the creation of the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) in 1999. It advances an argument about how domestic regulatory structures and state power explain the variation in regulatory network…
Cause for Celebration or Concern? Voter Reactions to Rising House Prices
Little is known about voters’ demands in response to rising house prices. We argue that voters’ house-price perceptions and housing policy preferences depend on countries’ differing economic institutions. In the UK’s liberal welfare and credit regimes, we expect voters to view house-price growth as a comparatively positive sign for the economy and show little demand for policies restraining prices. In Germany’s generous welfare and restrictive cr…
Riding the Tiger
This article examines the political and economic dynamics of welfare markets in the USA. These marketplaces differ from other public–private welfare arrangements in that the state crafts and sustains these markets with the aim of using competition to promote cost-effective welfare provision. However, welfare markets face fundamental tensions between competition and stability that we trace to the allocation of risk between the state and private pr…
From 'Sick Man' to 'Miracle
What explains Germany's exceptional labor market performance during the Great Recession of 2008-09? Contrary to accounts that emphasize employment protection legislation or government policy (i.e., short-time work), this article argues that actions by firms-embedded in ever-changing coordinative institutional structures-were crucial. Firms chose to keep rather than shed labor, a strategy induced by (i) a 'toolkit' of flexible labor market instrum…
The domestic sources and power dynamics of regulatory networks
Regulatory networks are key elements of the global economy, but little is known about their variation. Why do some states prefer the creation of state-centered networks, while others advocate technocratic networks? This article addresses this question by examining the creation of the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) in 1999. It advances an argument about how domestic regulatory structures and state power explain the variation in regulatory network…
Dissertation List
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The politics of quantitative easing and housing stimulus by the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, 2008‒2018
Central banks have been important yet underexplored actors in the fight against the Great Recession. In addition to ultra-low interest rates, they adopted large-scale bond-buying programmes known as quantitative easing (QE). Yet there is significant variation in QE programmes with important distributive consequences. Why has the Fed adopted multi-trillion-dollar bond-buying programmes in housing, while the ECB has not? This article argues that th…
Riding the Tiger
This article examines the political and economic dynamics of welfare markets in the USA. These marketplaces differ from other public–private welfare arrangements in that the state crafts and sustains these markets with the aim of using competition to promote cost-effective welfare provision. However, welfare markets face fundamental tensions between competition and stability that we trace to the allocation of risk between the state and private pr…
Entrenchment or Retrenchment
Why do mortgage subsidies vary across countries? Until the 2000s, the U.S. and Germany provided large-scale subsidies for homeownership. Yet, their paths diverged when they faced deep economic crises at that time. While the U.S. doubled down on government support by quasi-nationalizing its mortgage market, Germany retrenched homeowner subsidies. This article argues that growth regimes shape coalitional logics that explain these contrasting outcom…
Not so different after all? household attitudes toward financialisation in Germany and the United Kingdom
Cause for Celebration or Concern? Voter Reactions to Rising House Prices
Little is known about voters’ demands in response to rising house prices. We argue that voters’ house-price perceptions and housing policy preferences depend on countries’ differing economic institutions. In the UK’s liberal welfare and credit regimes, we expect voters to view house-price growth as a comparatively positive sign for the economy and show little demand for policies restraining prices. In Germany’s generous welfare and restrictive cr…
Housing and Party Politics in Germany and Its Länder
Amid a persistent affordability crisis, German political parties increasingly frame housing as the "new social question of our time." But to what extent do parties at the national and regional levels also agree on solutions, given Germany's stark regional housing differences and regionalized housing policymaking? Using a novel dataset on party positions toward housing, we analyzed 361 party manifestos from national and Länder elections between 20…
From Merkelmania to Malaise
The article places the current malaise afflicting the Federal Republic of Germany in a post-war historical context. It argues that the recent reversal in Chancellor Angela Merkel's academic and journalistic fortunes-from darling to devil within a few short years-reflects a broader schizophrenia in the intelligentsia's views on Germany's economy. Since the early 1950s, opinion has swung, almost violently, from fawning adoration to dark pessimism. …
Economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)