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Nick Kotucha

Nick has obtained his PhD from PAIS in 2023. He currently holds a fixed-term lectureship position at Goldsmiths, University of London, and will return to Warwick as an ESRC postdoctoral fellow in October 2024.

Research

My research focuses on the political economy of finance, and the role that social processes and ideas play in shaping the governance of the financial system. I am particularly interested in the ways in which central banking policy is shaped by wider economic, political, and social shifts beyond the realm of formal economics.

My PhD investigates the role of domestic institutional and structural factors in shaping macroprudential policies in Europe. Drawing on Germany and the UK as my main case studies, I am especially interested in what explains the differences that are emerging within this policy field. To this end, my research pays particular attention to how the agency of central bankers is embedded in wider institutional and structural contexts, and the extent to which other political actors are able to insert themselves into this highly technical realm.

Publications

'The national life of transnational models: Macroprudential policy and the politics of translation in Germany and the UK', Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), 2024 (forthcoming; accepted October 2024).

'The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK', Comparative European Politics, 2022. DOI :10.1057/s41295-022-00316-2 (Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41295-022-00316-2)