H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

STASIS · Transformations of STate cApitalism in a poSt coronavIruS world

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-01-17 → 2024-01-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 191 852 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Държавният капитализъм и начините, по които правителствата използват държавни компании и инвестиционни фондове за постигане на политически цели, са в центъра на анализа. Това помага за разбирането на икономическите стратегии и ограниченията върху търговията в света след пандемията.

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Резултати накратко

Transformations of STate cApitalism in a poSt coronavIruS world

The state is back, and it means business. The project STASIS investigated the geography, economics, and politics of the adaptive strategies that state actors have adapted in a post-COVID-19 world. STASIS focused in particular on the reconfiguration of what academics, policymakers, and business commentators increasingly refer to as state capitalism, that is, the increasing reliance of governments on state enterprises, state-owned banks, state-sponsored investment funds, and other forms of state-controlled corporate entities, in order to achieve political and economic goals. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have vastly expanded their control over assets and markets. Concurrently, governments have experimented with increasingly assertive modalities of statism, from techno-industrial policies and spatial development strategies to economic nationalism and trade and investment restrictions. The prevalence of these state capitalist vehicles and instruments across political and geographical contexts and their policy relevance have been increasingly acknowledged over the past fifteen years. The project has focused in particular on (1) the transnational expansion of state-controlled corporate entities; (2) the multiplication of foreign investment screening mechanisms; (3) the proliferation of green industrial strategies. The project has conducted a study of the geographical political economic determinants of these modalities of state intervention and policymaking in light of the turbulent economic, geopolitical, and environmental transformations currently happening in the world. This research can inform citizens and the wider public, particularly concerning efforts to design a concerted, effective, equitable, and legitimate policy response to the “polycrisis”.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

States are currently designing new strategies and modalities of intervention in order to adapt to the lasting impacts that the covid-19 Great Lockdown will have on industrial structures, financial systems, global and regional value chains, the nature of business competition, and the world of work. While the forms of reassertion of state authority are likely to be extremely diverse, STASIS focuses in particular on the repositioning of European states with respect to investment from state enterprises, state-owned banks, and state-sponsored investment funds, or what commentators increasingly refer to as ‘state capitalist’ investment. There are concerns that firms impacted by covid-19 may be targeted by 'predatory' state-sponsored investors from beyond Europe, as the crisis is being seized as a strategic opportunity to acquire underpriced assets. STASIS offers an original study of how European states are seeking to regulate state capitalist investment from abroad, in light of the tension between attracting foreign capital and retaining control of critical firms and assets, and as parts of broader attempts to construct new regimes of competition, profitability and growth. It proposes to advance scholarly understandings of the political economy of these investments and regulations, by scrutinising the actors, processes, and multiple forms of contestation they involve within and across economic sectors and European states. It uses mixed methods involving 60 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, a close reading of policy documents and public reports, and economic analysis, in order to explore empirically-grounded case studies (a comparison of the regulations implemented by Germany and France, and a comparison of 2 economic sectors: Health & Biotech; Artificial Intelligence & Robotics). The study, grounded in geographical political economy, brings together recent literature on state capitalism, economic geographies of crisis transition, and labour mobilisations.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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UPPSALA UNIVERSITET · UppsalaКоординаторШвеция