Working papers

Papers posted on this site are in progress, under submission, or in press and forthcoming elsewhere. Working Papers are offered on this site by the author, also in the interest of receiving feedback. Working Papers are not refereed, but the Steering Group of the Centre evaluates which papers will be published. Papers in this series may be in various stages of completion, but they may nonetheless be cited freely. You can find a suggested citation in each paper. If you are interested in publishing something in this series, please contact any member of the Steering Group: Hanna Kuusela, Heikki Patomäki or Matti Ylönen.

Elmer, K. (2025). Imagining Monetary Futures: China’s Post-Crisis Reform Proposals and the Limits of the Supranational Currency Debate. Helsinki Center for Global Political Economy Working Paper, 08/2025.

Patomäki, H. (2025). On the Feasibility of the International Clearing Union: Three Scenarios and the Results of a Delphi Study. Helsinki Center for Global Political Economy Working Paper, 07/2025.

Kotilainen, K. (2022). Towards an International Clearing Union (at Last)? Normative Underpinnings and Elements of Institutional Design. Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy Working Paper, 6/2022.

Ryner, M. (2021). Passive Revolution/Silent Revolution: Europe’s Recovery Plan, the Green Deal, and the German Question. Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy Working Paper, 05/2021.

Patomäki, H. (2021). Beyond the Current EU Conception: Alternative Approaches to Structural Reform. Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy Working Paper, 04/2021. 

Ryner, M. (2021). Is European Monetary Integration Structurally Neoliberal? The Case of the 1977-78 Locomotive Conflict. Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy Working Paper, 03/2021.

Wahlsten, J. (2020). To Assemble Society Anew? The Political Economy of Contemporary Initiatives of Socio-Ecological Transformation. Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy Working Paper, 02/2020.

Kotilainen, K. and Patomäki, H. (2020). Towards a Helsinki Approach to Global Political Economy: Integrating Pluralist Economic Theorisation and Critical IPE. Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy Working Paper, 01/2020.