Research
Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant
The Political Economy of Knowledge-Based Growth (24-month project, awarded £287,299):
Project team. Principal Investigator: David Hope (KCL). Co-Investigators: Sebastian Diessner (Leiden), Niccolo Durazzi (Edinburgh) & Hanna Kleider (KCL)
Overview. The transition to the knowledge economy has seen high-skilled workers and ICT become increasingly central to firms’ production strategies in advanced democracies. It has also captured policymakers’ interest due to the promise of delivering both economic growth and “good jobs”. In this project, we seek to significantly develop the literature on the knowledge economy in three ways, by: (i) providing a new measurement of the knowledge economy that builds on a multi-dimensional theorisation of the knowledge economy; (ii) tracing the policy foundations of (different types of) knowledge economies; and (iii) unpacking the knowledge economy’s consequences for political and policy preferences.
More information. Short version of the research proposal.
Published papers
European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 78, with Julian Limberg (KCL) and Nina Weber (KCL)
The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich
Socio-Economic Review, 2022, 20(2), 539-559, with Julian Limberg (KCL)
The Knowledge Economy and Taxes on the Rich
Journal of European Public Policy, 2022, 29(5), 728-747, with Julian Limberg (KCL)
Skill-Biased Liberalization: Germany’s Transition to the Knowledge Economy
Politics & Society, 2022, 50(1), 117-155, with Sebastian Diessner (EUI) and Niccolo Durazzi (Edinburgh)
Household Education Gaps and Gender Role Attitudes
Political Science Research and Methods, 2022, 10(4), 823-830, with Marco Giani (KCL) and Øyvind Skorge (BUC)
World Politics, 2019, 71(2), 268-288, with Angelo Martelli (LSE)
Understanding the Determinants of Penal Policy: Crime, Culture, and Comparative Political Economy
Annual Review of Criminology, 2018, 1, 195-217, with Nicola Lacey (LSE) and David Soskice (LSE)
Estimating the Effect of the EMU on Current Account Balances: A Synthetic Control Approach
European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 44, 20-40
Growth Models, Varieties of Capitalism, and Macroeconomics
Politics & Society, 2016, 44(2), 209-226, with David Soskice (LSE)
The Eurozone and Political Economic Institutions
Annual Review of Political Science, 2016, 19, 163-185, with Torben Iversen (Harvard) and David Soskice (LSE)
Working papers
Technological Change, Task Complexity, and Preferences for Redistribution
with Julian Limberg (KCL) and Nina Weber (KCL)
ifo Working Paper Series 398, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
Under Review
What Drives Ideational Change in Tax Policy? A Quantitative Text Analysis of UK Parliamentary Debates from 1979-2019
with Julian Limberg (KCL)
Embedding Skill Bias: Technology, Institutions and the Skill Bias in Wages and Benefits
with Sebastian Diessner (EUI) and Niccolo Durazzi (Edinburgh)
European University Institute MWP Working Paper, 2020/07, with Sebastian Diessner (EUI) and Niccolo Durazzi (Edinburgh)
(Later version published in Politics & Society; see above)