Demand and Growth Regimes: Structural and International Dimensions
Date: 18-19 May 2026
Location: Berlin School of Economics and Law (Campus Schöneberg), Room A 2.04
Workshop organised by the Growth Regime Working Group (GRWG) of the Institute for International Political Economy (IPE) Berlin at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, in collaboration with Erasmus Mundus Master Economic Policies for the Global Bifurcation (EPOG-JM).
Contact: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Hein (eckhard.hein@hwr-berlin.de), Dr. Ümit Akcay (uemit.akcay@hwr-berlin.de), Juan Manuel Campana (juanmanuel.Campana@hwr-berlin.de), Philip Blees (philip.blees@hwr-berlin.de).
Description
This workshop aims to advance the debate on demand and growth regimes (DGRs) by bringing together junior and senior scholars from post-Keynesian economics, the regulation school, structuralist and dependency approaches, comparative political economy, and international political economy. While the literature on DGRs has significantly improved our understanding of demand formation and comparative growth dynamics, important questions remain regarding the relationship between DGRs, the structure of production and the international positioning of economies in real and financial terms.
The workshop therefore focuses on the political economy and international positioning of DGRs, including the links to structural change, industrial strategies, international complementarities, currency hierarchies and geoeconomic dynamics. We will discuss theoretical and empirical contributions ranging from large samples to comparative and single case studies of Global North and South countries addressing the following themes:
1. DGRs, the structure of production, and industrial policy;
2. The political economy of DGRs and their transformations;
3. International complementarities, and international positioning of DGRs.
Documentation
Session 1: The Growth Regime Approach Revisited: Conceptual Issues
Ümit Akcay and Eckhard Hein (HWR Berlin, IPE Berlin): Demand and Growth Regimes Revisited: Toward an Integrated Four-Level Research Programme
Engelbert Stockhammer (King's College London): House-price Led Growth: Reflections on Finance-led Growth
Session 2: Growth Regimes in the Peripheries
Ümit Akcay (HWR Berlin, IPE Berlin): External Anchors of Growth Models: International Hierarchy, Geoeconomic Change, and Policy Space in the Semi-Periphery
Michael Schedelik (Goethe University Frankfurt): The Politics of Growth Beyond the State: Rethinking State-Business Relations in Peripheral Economies
Paloma Villanueva (Complutense University of Madrid): The Evolution of Demand Regimes in Mediterranean Countries and the Role of the Multiplier Effect: Between Wage Devaluation and Financial Leverage
Session 3: Growth Regimes and Growth Drivers
Juan Manuel Campana and Eckhard Hein (HWR Berlin, IPE Berlin): Demand-led Growth Decomposition and Trade Structures: Towards a Spectrum of Export-led Models
Juan Manuel Campana and Eckhard Hein (HWR Berlin, IPE Berlin): Macroeconomic Policy Regimes and the Dynamics of Demand-led Growth Regimes in Advanced and Emerging Economies
Session 4: The Developmental State Revisited: A Latin American Way Out?
Petra Dünhaupt and Valeria Jimenez (HWR Berlin, IPE Berlin & Trinity College, IPE Berlin): Structural Policy Space and Global Value Chain Position – A Framework for Industrial Policy in the Critical-Minerals Boom
Lisa Paulitz and Ernesto Vargas Aguilar (HWR Berlin): Political Economy of Dependent Financialization and Policy Space in Uruguay and Argentina
Session 5: Demand and Growth Regimes: What About Supply?
Pauline Kohlhase (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies): Gendering Growth Models
Philip Blees and Eckhard Hein (HWR Berlin, IPE Berlin): Labour Market Institutions, Distribution Conflict and Productivity Growth