All Stories

  1. The green banking gap: How bankability, business models, and regulations challenge banks’ decarbonisation

    Article • Competition & Change, March 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  2. Global finance

    Article • January 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  3. Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn

    Article • Politička misao, October 2025, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  4. Channels of influence in sustainable finance: A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition

    Article • Finance and Society, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  5. Global Finance: changing practices, actors, and geographies

    Article • September 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  6. ESG: ‘sustainable’ investing and the risk of infrastructural lock-in

    Article • April 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  7. Mind the ESG capital allocation gap: The role of index providers, standard‐setting, and “green” indices for the creation of sustainability impact

    Article • Regulation & Governance, June 2023, Wiley

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  8. Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?

    Article • Competition & Change, November 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  9. Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?

    Article • July 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  10. The new gatekeepers of financial claims: States, passive markets, and the growing power of index providers

    Article • June 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  11. The New Permanent Universal Owners: Index funds, patient capital, and the distinction between feeble and forceful stewardship

    Article • Economy and Society, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  12. The new permanent universal owners: Index funds, patient capital, and the distinction between feeble and forceful stewardship

    Article • September 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  13. Steering capital: the growing private authority of index providers in the age of passive asset management

    Article • Review of International Political Economy, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  14. Steering capital: the growing private authority of index providers in the age of passive asset management

    Article • November 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  15. The Rise of Institutional Investors

    Article • July 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  16. Publisher Correction: Tax havens and global environmental degradation

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  17. Tax havens and global environmental degradation

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  18. The New Permanent Universal Owners: Index Funds, (Im)patient Capital, and the Claim of Long-termism

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  19. States versus Corporations: Rethinking the Power of Business in International Politics

    Article • The International Spectator, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  20. Uncovering Offshore Financial Centers: Conduits and Sinks in the Global Corporate Ownership Network

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  21. Hidden power of the Big Three? Passive index funds, re-concentration of corporate ownership, and new financial risk

    Article • Business and Politics, April 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  22. The anatomy of the Cayman Islands offshore financial center: Anglo-America, Japan, and the role of hedge funds

    Article • Review of International Political Economy, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  23. Mobilization of collateral in Germany as a reflection of monetary policy and financial market developments

    Article • The Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures, September 2016, Incisive Media

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  24. Perpetual decline or persistent dominance? Uncovering Anglo-America’s true structural power in global finance

    Article • Review of International Studies, June 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  25. Rhenish capitalism meets activist hedge funds: Blockholders and the impact of impatient capital

    Article • Competition & Change, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  26. The Offshore-Intensity Ratio: Identifying the Strongest Magnets for Foreign Capital

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  27. Privateers of the Caribbean: The Hedge Funds–US–UK–Offshore Nexus

    Article • Competition & Change, February 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  28. Offshore Financial Centres

    Article • Political Insight, November 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  29. Finanzialisierung und der Offshore-Hedge-Fonds-Nexus.

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan Fichtner

  30. Hedge funds: agents of change for financialization

    Article • Critical Perspectives on International Business, October 2013, Emerald

    Dr Jan Fichtner