Two ERC Starting Grants for AISSR researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant to Dr Eelke Heemskerk for his project on corporate network governance and to Dr Daniel Mügge for his project on global politics of macroeconomic measurement.
Dr Eelke Heemskerk (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research) - Corporate Network Governance: Power, Ownership and Control in Contemporary Global Capitalism
The global business community is strongly intertwined. Companies share managers and are one another’s owners. Heemskerk will be the first to map this network for tens of millions of companies worldwide, and will investigate it as a complex system. Together with a team of political economists and computer scientists, he will model and empirically test the generating mechanisms behind this network, thereby throwing light on the way international elites have, and retain, economic power.
Dr Daniel Mügge (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research) - The Global Politics of Macroeconomic Measurement
Macroeconomic indicators play a chief role in economic governance and its political contestation. Measurements of growth, unemployment, inflation and public deficits tell us ‘how economies are doing’. In contrast to their air of objectivity, it is not at all obvious how these indicators should be defined and measured. Mugge explores the social, political and economic factors that determine the formulas which form the bedrock of macroeconomic indicators.
About the grant
A Starting Grant is a personal grant of 1.5 million euros which is meant to support talented researchers for a period of five years while they conduct research.