Journal articles
Semieniuk, G., Weber, I. M., Weaver, I. S., Wasner, E., Braun, B., Holden, P. B., Salas, P., Mercure, J.-F., & Edwards, N. R. (2025). Best of times, worst of times: Record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality. Energy Research & Social Science, 127, 104221. [Link]
Braun, B., & Düsterhöft, M. (2025). Noisy politics, quiet technocrats: Strategic silence by central banks. Regulation & Governance, Advance Online Publication. [Link]
Weber, I. M., Wasner, E., Lang, M., Braun, B., & van ‘t Klooster, J. (2025). Implicit coordination in sellers’ inflation: How cost shocks facilitate price hikes. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 74, 690–712. [Link]
Gabor, D., & Braun, B. (2025). Green macrofinancial regimes. Review of International Political Economy, 32(3), 542–568. [Link]
Braun, B., Carlo, D. D., Diessner, S., & Düsterhöft, M. (2024). Structure, agency, and structural reform: The case of the European Central Bank. Perspectives on Politics, Advance Online Publication, 1–20. [Link]
Braun, B., & Christophers, B. (2024). Asset manager capitalism: An introduction to its political economy and economic geography. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 56(2), 546–557. [Link]
Ergen, T., Kohl, S., & Braun, B. (2023). Firm foundations: The statistical footprint of multinational corporations as a problem for political economy. Competition & Change, 27(1), 44–73. [Link]
Braun, B. (2022). Exit, control, and politics: Structural power and corporate governance under asset manager capitalism. Politics & Society, 50(4), 630–654. [Link]
Braun, B. (2022). Fueling financialization: The economic consequences of funded pensions. New Labor Forum, 31(1), 70–79. [Link]
Braun, B., Di Carlo, D., & Diessner, S. (2022). Planning laissez-faire: Supranational central banking and structural reforms. Zeitschrift Für Politikwissenschaft, 32(3), 707–716. [Link]
Braun, B., Krampf, A., & Murau, S. (2021). Financial globalization as positive integration: Monetary technocrats and the Eurodollar market in the 1970s. Review of International Political Economy, 28(4), 794–819. [Link]
Braun, B. (2020). Central banking and the infrastructural power of finance: The case of ECB support for repo and securitization markets. Socio-Economic Review, 18(2), 395–418. [Link]
Braun, B., & Deeg, R. (2020). Strong firms, weak banks: The financial consequences of Germany’s export-led growth model. German Politics, 29, 358–381. [Link]
Braun, B., Gabor, D., & Hübner, M. (2018). Governing through financial markets: Towards a critical political economy of Capital Markets Union. Competition & Change, 22(2), 101–116. [Link]
Braun, B., & Hübner, M. (2018). Fiscal fault, financial fix? Capital Markets Union and the quest for macroeconomic stabilization in the euro area. Competition & Change, 22(2), 117–138. [Link]
Braun, B., Schindler, S., & Wille, T. (2018). Rethinking agency in International Relations: Performativity, performances and actor-networks. Journal of International Relations and Development, 22(4), 787–807. [Link]
Braun, B. (2016). From performativity to political economy: Index investing, ETFs and asset manager capitalism. New Political Economy, 21(3), 257–273. [Link]
Braun, B. (2016). Speaking to the people? Money, trust, and central bank legitimacy in the age of quantitative easing. Review of International Political Economy, 23(6), 1064–1092. [Link]
Braun, B. (2015). Governing the future: The European Central Bank’s expectation management during the Great Moderation. Economy and Society, 44(3), 367–391. [Link]
Braun, B. (2015). Preparedness, crisis management and policy change: The euro area at the critical juncture of 2008-2013. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 17(3), 419–441. [Link]
Braun, B. (2014). Why models matter: The making and unmaking of governability in macroeconomic discourse. Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, 7, 48–79. [Link]
Edited volumes
Braun, B., & Koddenbrock, K. (Eds.). (2022). Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance. Routledge. [Link]
Book chapters
Braun, B. (2022). Zentralbanken, (De-) Kommodifizierung und (De-) Globalisierung. In S. Schirm, A. Busch, S. Lütz, S. Walter, & K. Zimmermann (Eds.), De-Globalisierung: Forschungsstand und Perspektiven (pp. 239–256). Nomos. [Link]
Braun, B., & Koddenbrock, K. (2022). The Three Phases of Financial Power: Leverage, Infrastructure, and Enforcement. In B. Braun & K. Koddenbrock, Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance. Routledge. [Link]
Braun, B. (2021). Asset manager capitalism as a corporate governance regime. In J. Hacker, A. Hertel-Fernandez, P. Pierson, & K. Thelen (Eds.), The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power (pp. 270–294). Cambridge University Press. [Link]
Braun, B. (2021). Central bank planning for public purpose. In D. Fassin & M. Fourcade (Eds.), Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus (pp. 105–121). HAU Books. [Link]
Braun, B., & Gabor, D. (2020). Central bank, shadow banking, and infrastructural power. In P. Mader, D. Mertens, & N. van der Zwan (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization (pp. 241–252). Routledge. [Link]
Braun, B. (2018). Central bank planning: Unconventional monetary policy and the price of bending the yield curve. In J. Beckert & R. Bronk (Eds.), Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy (pp. 194–216). Oxford University Press. [Link]
Policy reports
Braun, B. (2021). Central banking beyond inflation. Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende & Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. [Link]
Buller, A., & Braun, B. (2021). Under new management: Share ownership and the growth of UK asset manager capitalism. CommonWealth. [Link]
Braun, B., & Downey, L. (2020). Against Amnesia: Re-Imagining Central Banking. Council on Economic Policies. [Link]
Braun, B. (2017). Two sides of the same coin? Independence and accountability of the European Central Bank. Transparency International EU. [Link]