Helena Gräf
Helena Gräf is a research associate and PhD candidate at HWR Berlin in cooperation with the University of Erfurt on the topic of "Green Industrial Policy in the EU: The State-Driven Transformation of the Battery Value Chain". She was previously a pre-doctoral student at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Studies.
Helena Gräf was working in the research projects `Global Value Chains in Germany, India and Brazil after COVID 19 - Beginning of a New Type of Globalization?´ (PI: Prof. Dr. Christina Teipen, HWR Berlin) and `Clash or Convergence of Capitalisms: Property Conflicts over Chinese Direct Investments in Germany and the EU´ (PI: PD Dr. Stefan Schmalz, Universities of Erfurt and Collaborative Research Center TRR 294 `Structural Change of Property´).
Helena Gräf studied B.A. International Business Management and M.A. Political Economy of European Integration at the HWR Berlin and spent two semesters abroad at the Universidad de Montevideo in Uruguay.
Research focus
- International and Comparative Political Economy
- Sustainability in Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks
- Green Industrial Policy
- European Economic Governance
- Social-Ecological Transformation
Media Coverage
Sindreu, J. (2024): Germany Passed its First Chinese Test—This One Is Trickier. Wall Street Journal, 10 April 2024.
Publications
Gräf, H., & Teipen, C. (2023). Die Covid-19-Pandemie in der deutschen Automobil- und IT-Dienstleistungsindustrie: Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitsbeziehungen und die Restrukturierung der Wertschöpfungskette. AIS-Studien, 16(2), 43-57. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.91252
Topuria, S. & Gräf, H. (2023). German Industrial Policy and the Twin Transition: Pre- and post-Covid Trajectories in the Automotive and IT Services Sectors, Working Paper, No 213/2023.
Gräf, H., & Schmalz, S. (2023). Avoiding the China shock: How Chinese state-backed internationalization drives changes in European economic governance. Competition & Change (im Druck). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294231207990.
Gräf, Helena & Topuria, Salome (2023): The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Industrial Policy in Germany and the European Union. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (im Druck). Doi: doi.org/10.4337/ejeep.2023.0112.
Herr, H., Teipen, C., & Gräf H. (2023) Corona und das globale Machtgefälle in Lieferketten am Beispiel der Automobilindustrie. In: Haipeter, T., Helfen, M., Kirsch, A. und Rosenbohm, S. (Hg.) Soziale Standards in globalen Lieferketten: Internationale Richtlinien, unternehmerische Verantwortung und die Stimme der Beschäftigten, Bielefeld: transcript, 115-133.
Schmalz, S., Gräf, H., Köncke, P. & Schneidemesser, L. (2022) Umkämpfte Globalisierung: Amerikanische und europäische Reaktionen auf Chinas Aufstieg im Hochtechnologiebereich. Berliner Journal für Soziologie 32, 427–454. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11609-022-00481-x.
Gräf, H. & Raj-Reichert, G. (2020) Bessere Arbeitsbedingungen weltweit. Das neue Berliner Vergaberecht stärkt soziale Verantwortung für Lieferketten, WZB-Mitteilungen 168, 95-97.