David Howarth has been a Professor at the University of Luxembourg since 2012. He was previously a Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Edinburgh where he also ran a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Professor Howarth is (since 2015) one of three editors of the Routledge / UACES book series on Contemporary European Studies, one of the leading series focused on European Union affairs. Professor Howarth is a founding member of the University of Luxembourg's Robert Schuman Initiative, since 2016 a leading interdisciplinary centre for study of European Union affairs and recognized and funded twice by the EU Commission as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.

His research areas are:

• The political economy of European integration (and specifically Economic and Monetary Union and Banking Union)
• European Union / euro area economic governance
• The comparative political economy of financial (and notably banking) systems
• International, European Union and national financial (and notably banking) regulation
• The politics and political economy of international capital liberalisation

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Professor Howarth (BA, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon.)) grew up in Alberta, Canada. He studied political science at the University of Alberta, where he was a Peter Lougheed Scholar and won the Alexander MacGibbon Gold Medal for the best results in political science and the Faculty of Arts Honours Award for the second best results in his graduating year (out of several hundred graduates). He won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford (Balliol College), obtaining an MPhil. in Politics and a DPhil. (PhD) on French Monetary Policy and Monetary Integration in Europe, supervised by Professor Jack Hayward. Between his masters and doctoral studies, he worked as a legislative assistant in the Canadian federal parliament. Professor Howarth also studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris (Oxford-Paris Award Recipient) and completed the sixteen month international programme at the French Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Promotion Victor Schoechler, 1995-1996). While completing his DPhil. at Oxford, he worked as a researcher at Nuffield College for professors Hayward and Vincent Wright, on an ESRC project on political executives in Western Europe. He was a Lecturer at Aston University and the University of London (Queen Mary College) prior to moving to the University of Edinburgh in 2003 where he worked as a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy.

Professor Howarth was selected as a Jean Monnet Chair in 2008 and ran the University of Edinburgh's Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence from 2010. He was an elected member of the UACES Committee (UK ECSA) (2005-08) and the Co-Chair of the European Union Studies Association (US) Political Economy section (2005-09). In addition to his academic work, Professor Howarth wrote for the Economist Intelligence Unit on European and French economic topics for a decade (until 2013). He moved to the University of Luxembourg in September 2012.

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Professor Howarth has won a large range of awards and research grants, most notably a Jean Monnet Chair (2008 to 2012), Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Luxembourg (from 2010-13; 2015-2018; 2018-2022), several European Commission Life Long Learning, British Academy, Carnegie Trust and other research and conference grants. Most recently (2021) he has been awarded (with Professor Dermot Hodson at Birkbeck College, London) an ESRC-FNR INTER grant (€1.2 million). In 2019, he was awarded a Luxembourg National Research Council (FNR) CORE grant (€543,623) for a project on the Single Supervisory Mechanism; and (2017-2020) a University of Luxembourg Internal Research Grant (€185,000) for a project on European Banking Union. He has been a visiting scholar at CEVIPOF, Paris; New York University; and the University of Victoria. He remains an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

In 2015, he was part of a team of six University of Luxembourg academics — in Political Science, Law, History and Economics — to win a EU Commission Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence grant for the University of Luxembourg (€100,000). The award of this grant demonstrates the status of the University of Luxembourg as a leading centre for the interdisciplinary study of the European Union. In 2018, he coordinated the application for a second JMCE grant (€100,000), which was awarded for the 2018-2021 period.

Professor Howarth joined with colleagues in the University of Luxembourg Law School to apply successfully for an FNR (Luxembourg National Research Council) PRIDE Scheme Doctoral Training Unit focused on 'Enforcement in Multilevel Regulatory Systems' (REMS) (with funding from 2017-2021) and he has one PhD student funded under this scheme. Professor Howarth has supervised three PhD students funded through the FNR's AFR doctoral studies grant scheme.

Professor Howarth has won a number of prizes for his research output. Most recently, his paper (with Lucia Quaglia) 'The Policy Narratives of Capital Markets Union' was selected (from several hundred submissions) as one of ten best papers presented at the EUSA (European Union Studies Association of the United States) May 2017 Biennial Conference in Miami, Florida. This paper will be published in a special edition of the high-ranking Journal of European Public Policy in 2018.

Professor Howarth has won a number of competitions for journal special editions including the Journal of European Public Policy, the Review of International Political Economy and the British Journal of Political and International Relations. Most recently, he and his PhD student, Mechthild Roos, won the competition for the 2017 special edition of the Journal of Contemporary European Research, the UACES on-line journal: 'Pushing the Boundaries:  Supranational Institutional Activism in the European Union'.

Professor Howarth has organised ten conferences and workshops (supported by funding awards from various bodies) since 2012 including, most recently: 'The Politics and Political Economy of Finance:  Ten Years on from the International Financial Crisis', ECPR Joint Session, Nicosia, April 2018; 'Reforming Banking Union', University of Luxembourg, June 2017; 'The Political Economy of Banking Union', University of Luxembourg, September 2016; and 'Pushing the Boundaries:  Supranational Institutional Activism in the European Union', Robert Schuman Centre, University of Luxembourg, May 2016.

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Professor Howarth convenes or co-convenes five Masters courses:

• International Political Economy (first year, semester 1)
• Political Economy of European Integration (first year, semester 2)
• The European Union and Finance (second year, semester 3)
• The Political System of the European Union (first year, semester 1)
• Britain and the European Union (first year, semester 2)

Professor Howarth convenes or co-convenes two Doctoral School courses:

• Research Colloquia in Political Science
• Topics in Public Policy

Professor Howarth is currently supervising four doctoral students working on the following topics:

• Ordoliberalism in Economic and Monetary Union;
• The operation of the Single Supervisory Mechanism and supervisory convergence;
• The construction of the European Stability Mechanism;
• Central banks and 'green' monetary policy

Professor Howarth is also a doctoral committee (CET) member for an additional five doctoral students.

Professor Howarth has supervised twelve PhD students to completion including seven at the University of Luxembourg. All of his PhD students have won thesis prizes and / or additional research grants. Six former PhD students are currently working in academia — three with permanent full-time contracts — one works for the European Central Bank, one works for the Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau, one works for the Better Finance think-tank in Brussels, and one works in local government.

He welcomes doctoral student applications in his research areas (listed on his homepage), or on closely related topics.

Last updated on: 03 fév 2023

David Howarth has authored or co-authored four books, a text book and over a hundred journal articles and book chapters on European political economy and other topics. He has co-edited six books and guest edited or co-edited fourteen journal special editions. He has published in several high ranking International Relations, Political Science, Public Administration and Economics journals including World Politics, Governance, Common Market Law Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, Socio-Economic Review, Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy and Public Administration.

Professor Howarth's books include the following:

• Bank Politics: Structural Reform in Comparative Perspective (with Scott James), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Regional Development Banks in the World Economy (editor with Judith Clifton and Daniel Fuentes), Oxford: OUP, 2021.
• Economic and Monetary Union at Twenty: A Stocktaking of a Tumultuous Second Decade (editor with Amy Verdun), London: Routledge, 2021.
• The Difficult Construction of European Banking Union (editor with Joachim Schild), London: Routledge, 2020.
• The Politics of Supranational Banking Supervision in Europe (editor with Huw Macartney), London:  Routledge, 2018.
• The Political Economy of European Banking Union (with Lucia Quaglia), Oxford:  OUP, 2016.
• Market Based Banking and International Financial Crisis (editor with Iain Hardie), Oxford:  OUP, 2013.
• The Political Economy of Europe’s Incomplete Single Market (editor with Tal Sadeh), London: Routledge, 2011.
• The ECB:  the New European Leviathan (with Peter Loedel), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003 and 2005, revised second edition.
• Contemporary France (with Georgios Varouxakis), New York: Oxford University Press / London: Edward Arnold, 2003.
• The French Road to European Monetary Union, Basingstoke:  Palgrave, 2001.

As of January 2023, Professor Howarth has 3791 citations on Google Scholar, an h-index of 34 and an i-index of 65. Professor Howarth has published 30 articles in top 10% peer reviewed journals (as ranked on Thomson ISI Web of Science and / or Scopus in Political Science or Public Policy), including 20 articles since 2012.

Some of Professor Howarth's recent journal articles (since 2004) include the following (see the publications link on my home page to access the pdf files of the author's pre-print version these articles):

Published:

• 'Torn between two lovers: German Policy on Economic and Monetary Union, the New Hanseatic League and Franco-German Bilateralism', with Joachim Schild, German Politics, 2021, Early View (December).
• 'Failing forward in Economic and Monetary Union: explaining weak Eurozone financial support mechanisms', with Lucia Quaglia, Journal of European Public Policy, 2021, 28 (10), 1555-1572.
• 'Stillborn Banking Union: Explaining Ineffective European Union Bank Resolution Rules', with Ioannis Asimakopoulos, Journal of Common Market Studies, 2021, Early View.
• 'The European Central Bank and the German Constitutional Court: Police Patrols and Fire Alarms', with Clément Fontan, Politics and Governance, 9 (2), Open Access.
• 'Nein to "Transfer Union": the German brake on the construction of a European Union fiscal capacity', with Joachim Schild, Journal of European Integration, 43 (2), 207-224.
• 'One money, two markets? EMU at twenty and European financial integration', with Lucia Quaglia, Journal of European Integration, 2020, 42 (3), 433-448.
• 'Economic and Monetary Union at twenty: a stocktaking of a tumultuous decade', with Amy Verdun, Journal of European Integration, 2020, 42 (3), 287-293.
• 'Bank power and public policy since the financial crisis', with Huw Macartney and Scott James, Business and Politics, 2020, 22 (1), 1-24.
• ‘The Politics of Bank Structural Reform: Business power and agenda setting in the United Kingdom, France and German’, with Scott James, Business and Politics, 2020, 22 (1), 25-51.
• ‘The European Investment Bank as Policy Entrepreneur and the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships’, New Political Economy, with Moritz Liebe, 2020, 25 (2), 195-212.
• ‘The Democratic Legitimacy of European Central Bank Crisis Policies’, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, with Anna-Lena Högenauer, 2019, 26 (1), 81-93.
• ‘The Tricky Accountability of the European Stability Mechanism’, Journal of Common Market Studies, with Aneta Spendzharova, 2019, 57 (4), 894-911.
• ‘Parliamentary Scrutiny of National Central Banks’, Public Administration, with Anna-Lena Högenauer, 2019, 97 (3), 576-589.
• 'The Policy Narratives of Capital Markets Union', with Lucia Quaglia, in Journal of European Public Policy, Special Edition, Best Papers presented at the EUSA 2017 Biennial Conference, 2018, 25 (7), 990-1009.
• ‘Brexit and the Battle for Financial Services’, Journal of European Public Policy, with Lucia Quaglia, 2018, 25 (8), 1118-1136.

• 'The difficult construction of a European Deposit Guarantee Scheme:  a step too far in Banking Union', with Lucia Quaglia, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2018, 21 (3), 190-209.

    •   'Enforcing the European Semester', with James Savage, Journal of European Public Policy, 2018, 25 (2), 193-211.

    •    'Brexit and the Single European Financial Market', with Lucia Quaglia, Journal of Common Market Studies, 2017, 55 (s1), 149-164.

    •    ‘Pushing the Boundaries:  New Research on the Activism of Supranational Institutions’, with Mechthild Roos, Journal of Contemporary European Research, 20127, 13 (2), 1007 - 1024.

    •    ‘France and European Macroeconomic Policy Coordination:  from the Treaty of Rome to the Sovereign Debt Crisis’, with Joachim Schild, Modern and Contemporary France, 2017, 25 (2), 2017, 171-190.
    •    ‘Inflation Aversion in Europe: Exploding the Myth of a North-South divide’, with Charlotte Rommerskirchen, Socio-Economic Review, 15 (2), 2017, pp. 385-404.
    •    ‘The Comparative Political Economy of Basel III’, with Lucia Quaglia, Policy and Society, 35, 2016, pp. 205–214.
    •    'The Political Economy of European Capital Markets Union', with Lucia Quaglia and Moritz Liebe, Journal of Common Market Studies, 54 (s1), 2016, pp. 185-203.
    •      'Internationalized Banking, alternative banks and the Single Supervisory Mechanism', with Lucia Quaglia, West European Politics, 39 (3), 2016, pp. 438-461.
    •    ‘The ebb and flow of transatlantic regulatory cooperation in banking', with Lucia Quaglia, Journal of Banking Regulation, 17 (1), 2016, pp. 21-33.
    •    'Supranational Banking Supervision in Europe: The Construction of a Credible Watchdog', with Jakub Gren and Lucia Quaglia, in Journal of Common Market Studies, 53 (s1), 2015, pp. 181-199.
    •    'The political economy of euro area's sovereign debt crisis', with Lucia Quaglia, Review of International Political Economy, 22 (3), 2105, pp. 457-484.
    •    ‘The Steep Road to European Banking Union: Constructing the Single Resolution Mechanism’, with Lucia Quaglia, Journal of Common Market Studies, 52 (s1), 2014, pp. 125-140.
    •    ‘Banks and the False Dichotomy in the Comparative Political Economy of Finance’, with Iain Hardie, Sylvia Maxfield and Amy Verdun, World Politics, 65 (4), October 2013, pp. 691–728. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0043887113000221.
    •    ‘Banking Union as Holy Grail:  Rebuilding the Single Market in Financial Services, Stabilizing Europe’s Banks and “Completing” Economic and Monetary Union’, with Lucia Quaglia, Journal of Common Market Studies, 51 (s1), pp. 103-123.
    •    ‘A panacea for all times: the Politics of the German Stability Culture’, with C. Rommerskirchen, West European Politics, 36 (4), 2013, pp. 750-770.
    •    ‘Banking on Stability: the European Union’s New Capital Requirement Directive’, with Lucia Quaglia, Journal of European Integration, 35 (3), 2013, pp. 333–346.
    •    ‘The Legacy of State-led Finance in France and the Rise of Gallic Market-Based Banking’, Governance, 26 (3), July 2013, pp. 369–395.
    •    ‘The Ongoing Struggle to “Protect” Europe from its Money Men’, with James Buckley and Lucia Quaglia, Journal of Common Market Studies, 50 (s1), 2012, pp. 99-115.
    •    ‘In the Vanguard of Globalisation: the OECD and Capital Liberalisation’, with Tal Sadeh, Review of International Political Economy, 18 (5), December 2011, pp. 622-645.
    •    'Regulating the so-called "Vultures of Capitalism', with James Buckley, Journal of Common Market Studies, 49 (s1), 2011, pp. 123-143.
    •    ‘Gesture Politics?: explaining financial regulatory reform in the European Union’, with J. Buckley, Journal of Common Market Studies, 48 (s1), 2010, pp. 119-141.
    •    ‘The ever incomplete single market: differentiation and the evolving frontier of integration’, with Tal Sadeh, Journal of European Public Policy, 17 (7), October 2010, pp. 922-935.
    •    ‘Die Krise but not La Crise? The financial crisis and the transformation of German and French banking systems’, with Iain Hardie, Journal of Common Market Studies, 47 (5), November 2009, pp. 1015-1036.
    •    ‘Greening the Internal Market in a Difficult Economic Climate’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 47 (s1), 2009, pp. 133-150.
    •    ‘Economic Interests and the European Union: A Catalyst for European Integration or a Hindrance?’, with Tal Sadeh, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10 (1), February 2008, pp. 1-14.
    •    ‘The Commission Defends the European Consumer’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 46 (s1), 2008, pp 91-107.
    •    ‘Running an enlarged euro-zone – reforming the European Central Bank:  Efficiency, legitimacy and national economic interest’, Review of International Political Economy, 14 (5), December 2007, pp. 820-41.
    •    ‘Making and Breaking the Rules:  French Policy on EU Economic Governance’, Journal of European Public Policy, 14 (7), October 2007, pp. 1061 - 1078.
    •    ‘The Domestic Politics of Britain and the Euro’, Journal of European Integration, 29 (1), March 2007. pp. 47-68,
    •    ‘The European Central Bank and the Stability Pact: Policeman and Judge?’, with Peter Loedel, Journal of European Public Policy, Spring, 11 (5), 2004, pp. 832-853.

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