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Martin Höpner

Martin Höpner

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Political Science

D-Index
29
Citations
5283
World Ranking
1249
National Ranking
66

Overview

Martin Höpner is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and specializes primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work intersects several subfields, notably Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics, Law, Finance, and Public Administration.

The research topics that dominate their academic contributions include European Union Policy and Governance, Law and Political Science, European and International Law Studies, Social Policy and Reform Studies, European Socioeconomic and Political Studies, German Economic Analysis & Policies, and Judicial and Constitutional Studies.

Höpner has been actively publishing in prominent venues, with a notable number of publications appearing in Transfer European Review of Labour and Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Europarecht, and the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies.

Their recent published papers demonstrate a focus on legal and economic aspects of European integration and governance as well as labor market policies. These include:

  • Can We Make the European Fundamental Freedoms Less Constraining? A Literature Review (2020) published in Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies
  • Ist der Unionsgesetzgeber an die Grundfreiheiten gebunden? (2022) published in Europarecht
  • Why does Germany abstain from statutory bargaining extensions? Explaining the exceptional German erosion of collective wage bargaining (2022) published in Economic and Industrial Democracy
  • Growth Coalitions Within a Corporatist Setting: How Manufacturing Interests Dominated the German Response to the Energy Crisis (2024) published in Politics & Society
  • Shielding competitiveness: Germany's wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective (2024) published in Transfer European Review of Labour and Research

Throughout their academic career, Höpner has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Susanne K. Schmidt, Donato Di Carlo, Daniel Seikel, Anke Hassel, and Christine Haas. These collaborations have contributed to a sustained engagement with topics at the intersection of political economy, labor relations, and European governance.

Best Publications

  • Wer beherrscht die Unternehmen? Shareholder Value, Managerherrschaft und Mitbestimmung in Deutschland

    Martin Höpner

  • What Connects Industrial Relations and Corporate Governance? Explaining Institutional Complementarity

    Martin Höpner

  • The Politics of the German Company Network

    Martin Höpner;Lothar Krempel

  • Corporate Governance in Transition: Ten Empirical Findings on Shareholder Value and Industrial Relations in Germany

    Martin Höpner

  • The Political Paradox of Finance Capitalism: Interests, Preferences, and Center-Left Party Politics in Corporate Governance Reform

    John W. Cioffi;John W. Cioffi;Martin Höpner

  • Two Dimensions of the Internationalization of Firms

    Anke Hassel;Martin Höpner;Antje Kurdelbusch;Britta Rehder

  • Embeddedness and Regional Integration: Waiting for Polanyi in a Hayekian Setting

    Martin Höpner;Armin Schäfer

  • A New Phase of European Integration: Organized Capitalisms in Post-Ricardian Europe

    Martin Höpner;Armin Schäfer

  • An Emerging Market for Corporate Control? The Mannesmann Takeover and German Corporate Governance

    Martin Höpner;Gregory Jackson

  • Corporate Governance and Employees in Germany: Changing Linkages, Complementarities, and Tensions

    Gregory Jackson;Martin Hopner;Antje Kurdelbusch

  • An emerging market for corporate control? The Mannesmann takeover and German corporate governance

    Martin Höpner;Gregory Jackson

  • European Integration and the Clash of Capitalisms: Political Cleavages over Takeover Liberalization

    Helen Callaghan;Martin Höpner

  • Integration among unequals: How the heterogeneity of European varieties of capitalism shapes the social and democratic potential of the EU

    Martin Höpner;Armin Schäfer

  • Unternehmensmitbestimmung unter Beschuss: die Mitbestimmungsdebatte im Licht der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung

    Martin Höpner

  • Coordination and organization: the two dimensions of nonliberal capitalism

    Martin Höpner

  • The Diversity of Wage Regimes: Why the Eurozone Is Too Heterogeneous for the Euro

    Martin Höpner;Mark Lutter

  • Revisiting the Mannesmann Takeover: How Markets for Corporate Control Emerge

    Martin Höpner;Gregory Jackson

  • Corporate Governance and Employees in Germany: Changing Linkages, Complementarities, and Tensions

    Gregory Jackson;Martin Höpner;Antje Kurdelbusch

  • Liberalisierungspolitik: Eine Bestandsaufnahme des Rückbaus wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Interventionen in entwickelten Industrieländern

    Martin Höpner;Alexander Petring;Daniel Seikel;Benjamin Werner

  • Corporate Governance Reform and the German Party Paradox

    Martin Höpner

  • Polanyi in Brussels? Embeddedness and the Three Dimensions of European Economic Integration

    Martin Höpner;Armin Schäfer

  • Can We Make the European Fundamental Freedoms Less Constraining? A Literature Review

    Martin Höpner;Susanne K. Schmidt

  • Corporate Governance in Deutschland

    Jürgen Beyer;Martin Höpner

  • Better Than the Euro? The European Monetary System (1979–1998)

    Martin Höpner;Alexander Spielau

  • Neither Existing nor Emerging: Euro Stabilization by Means of European Wage Coordination

    Martin Höpner;Martin Seeliger

  • Corporate Governance and the Disintegration of Organised Capitalism in the 1990s

    Jürgen Beyer;Martin Höpner

  • [Rezension:] Einsparender Staat: Castles, Francis G. (Hrsg.): The Disappearing State? Retrenchment Realities in an Age of Globalisation (Cheltenham [u.a.]: Elgar, 2007)

    Martin Höpner

  • A New Phase of European Integration: Organized Capitalisms in Post-Ricardian Europe

    Martin Höpner;Armin Schäfer

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Streeck
Wolfgang Streeck Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Fritz W. Scharpf
Fritz W. Scharpf Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Stephan Leibfried
Stephan Leibfried University of Bremen
Susanne K. Schmidt
Susanne K. Schmidt University of Bremen

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