Bachelor's degree in Economics, University of St. Gallen, exchange visit to Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires
Master studies in Economics University of Zurich, exchange visit and Sciences Po Paris
Doctoral studies in political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the topic "What about the economy, stupid? Winning strategy, favorable breeding grounds and internal divisions: the German populist radical right AfD in its European context
Doctorate in political science (Dr. rer. pol.) in 2021
until June 2022 personal assistant to the director of the Institute of the German Economy
since 2022 Head of the Research Unit Democracy, Society, Market Economy of the Institute of German Economy
since 2024 Managing Director of IW Gellschaftsforschung gGmbH
Research interests: economic policy strategies of European right-wing populists; social inequality and social cohesion; economic preconditions of a resilient democracy; economic, political and social consequences of globalization
Diermeier, Matthias / Schüler, Ruth Maria, 2023, Reform der Rentenversicherung in Deutschland. Eine Empirie zu Reformaversionen, in: IW-Trends, 50. Jg., Nr. 4, S. 45-60 Zur Studie
Diermeier, Matthias / Engler, Jan Felix / Schäfer, Holger, 2023, Zu viel oder zu wenig Reform?. Die öffentliche Verhandlung des Bürgergeldes, in: IW-Trends, 50. Jg., Nr. 1, S. 101-124 Zur Studie
Schüler, Ruth Maria / Diermeier, Matthias, 2023, Aufstieg und Fall von Industriestädten dies- und jenseits des Atlantiks, IW-Kurzbericht, Nr. 16, Köln Zur Studie
Diermeier, Matthias / Niehues, Judith, 2021, Demokratische Resilienz in Deutschland?. Parlamentarische Verfahrensakzeptanz im Licht individueller Problemwahrnehmung, in: IW-Trends, 48. Jg., Nr. 3, S. 89-112 Zur Studie
Diermeier, Matthias / Hüther, Michael / Obst, Thomas, 2021, Wunsch und Wirklichkeit: Kaum Ausgabenspielräume in der neuen Legislaturperiode. Zwischen Schuldenbremse und Steuererhöhungen, IW-Report, Nr. 33, Köln / Berlin Zur Studie
Bardt, Hubertus / Diermeier, Matthias / Grömling, Michael / Hüther, Michael / Obst, Thomas, 2021, Lieferengpässe und Preisentwicklungen bei Rohstoffen und Vorleistungen. Corona Echo Effekte oder ‚here to stay’?, IW-Report, Nr. 27, Köln / Berlin Zur Studie
(in cooperation with Judith Niehues) Einschätzungen zur Arbeitslosigkeit – Unwissen befördert systemisches Misstrauen IW-Trends 2/2019
(in cooperation with Knut Bergmann, Judith Niehues) AfD-Ergebnis nicht allein durch abgehängte Regionen erklärbar IW-Kurzbericht 36/2018
(in cooperation with Michael Hüther, Markos Jung) It’s business models, stupid! IW-Kurzbericht 33/2018
(in cooperation with Markus Demary, Michael Hüther, Markos Jung, Jürgen Matthes) Schriftliche Stellungnahme zu einer öffentlichen Anhörung des Bundestagsausschuss für die Angelegenheiten der Europäischen Union IW-Report 20/2018
(in cooperation with Markos Jung, Pekka Sagner) Wirtschaftskrise bremst europäische Konvergenz IW-Kurzbericht 30/2018
(in cooperation with Henry Goecke, Judith Niehues, Tobias Thomas) Verzerrte Wahrnehmung: Wie Berichte über Ungleichheit verunsichern IW-Kurzbericht 63/2017
(in cooperation with Knut Bergmann, Judith Niehues) NRW-Wahl – Nur wenige AfD-Wähler arbeitslos IW-Kurzbericht 51/2017
(in cooperation with Knut Bergmann) Die AfD: Eine unterschätzte Partei – Soziale Erwünschtheit als Erklärung für fehlerhafte Prognosen IW-Report 7/2017
(in cooperation with Henry Goecke) Geldmenge und Inflation in Europa – Ist der Zusammenhang verloren? IW policy papers 17/2016
Brexit – Hohe Unsicherheit, panische Stimmung und zuversichtliche Märkte IW-Kurzbericht 64/2016
(in cooperation with Knut Bergmann, Judith Niehues) Parteipräferenz und Einkommen – Die AfD, eine Partei der Besserverdiener? IW-Kurzbericht 19/2016
(in cooperation with Vera Demary) Fusionen und Übernahmen in der deutschen Industrie – Auf dem Weg zur Industrie 4.0? IW-Trends 4/2015
(in cooperation with Forschungsgruppe Konjunktur) Moderate Schlagzahl im Fahrwasser der schwächeren Weltwirtschaft – IW-Konjunkturprognose Herbst 2015 IW-Trends 4/2015
(in cooperation with Forschungsgruppe Konjunktur) Neue Herausforderungen – Konjunkturelle Fragen im Herbst 2015 Fragen und Antworten, 2015
(in cooperation with Markus Demary, Heide Haas) Die Europäische Kapitalmarktunion – Zur Relevanz von Banken und Märkten IW policy papers 18/2015
Expertises
(in cooperation with Markus Demary, Vera Demary, Heide Haas, Tobias Hentze, Jochen Pimpertz, Klaus-Heiner Röhl) Building a Capital Markets Union – Comments on the Public consultation EU Commission Green Paper
External Publications
Bergmann, Knut / Diermeier, Matthias / Kinderman, Daniel / Schroeder, Wolfgang, 2024, Die deutsche Wirtschaft und die AfD. Erfahrungen, Befunde und erste Forschungsergebnisse, in: Wissenschafszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Hrsg.), Discussion Paper //2024-602, Berlin / Köln Zur Studie
Diermeier, Matthias / Niehues, Judith, 2023, Punching up or Punching down?. How Stereotyping the Rich and the Poor Impacts Redistributive Preferences in Germany, in: SOEP papers, No. 1182, 36 Seiten Zur Studie
Diermeier, Matthias, 2021, Tailoring the Truth. An experimental approach to parliamentarians’ toleration of misinformation and responsiveness in Germany, in: Regierungsforschung.de, Wissenschaftliches Online-Magazin der NRW School of Governance, Duisburg Zur Studie
Hüther, Michael / Diermeier, Matthias, 2022, Globalisation under pressure?. How current megatrends shape the patters of international trade, capital flows and technology diffusion, in: Ernest Gnan/Christoph Schneider/Claudia Stowasser (Hg.) Schwerpunkt Außenwirtschaft 2021/2022, Reglobalisation: Changing Patterns, S. 137-14 zum Beitrag
Diermeier, Matthias / Niehues, Judith, 2022, Towards a nuanced understanding of anti-immigration sentiment in the welfare state. a program specific analysis of welfare preferences, in: Rationality and Society, Seite 1-33 Zur Studie
(in cooperation with Michael Hüther) Globalisierung im Systemwettbewerb - Eruopäische Integration, transatlantische Werte, chinesischer Weg Europa: In Vielfalt geeint!, 30 Perspektiven zur Rettung Europas vor sich selbst, Gregor Kirchhof, Mario Keller, Reiner Schmidt (Hrsg.), in Kooperation mit der Münchner Europakonferenz, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, München, 2020, S. 299-318
(in cooperation with Michael Hüther) Ökonomische Ungleichheit als Demokratieproblem Die repräsentative Demokratie in Anfechtung und Bewährung, Volker Kronenberg und Jakob Horneber (Hrsg.), Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2019, S. 39-52
(in cooperation with Michael Hüther) Perception and Reality: Economic Inequality as a Driver of Populism?, in Analyse und Kritik: Journal for Philisophy and Social Theory, 2019, Vol 41. No. 2, pp. 337-357
(in cooperation with Andrew Bassilakis, Henry Goecke) Converging Media versus Diverging Politics - the Brexit Twitter on Debate CESifo Forum 19, Heft 4, 2018, S. 23–28
(in cooperation with Henry Goecke, Michael Hüther) Exhausted Globalisation – Between the Transatlantic Orientation and the Chinese Way Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastly upon Tyne, 2018
(in cooperation with Henry Goecke, Michael Hüther) Die erschöpfte Globalisierung – Zwischen transatlantischer Orientierung und chinesischem Weg Springer Nature, Wiesbaden, 2018
(in cooperation with Michael Hüther, Markos Jung, Andrew Bassilakis) If Nothing is Achieved – Who Pays for the Brexit? ZBW, Intereconomics, Vol. 53, No. 5, 2018, pp. 274–280
(in cooperation with Knut Bergmann, Judith Niehues) Ein komplexes Gebilde. Eine sozio-ökonomische Analyse des Ergebnisses der AfD bei der Bundestagswahl 2017 ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 49. Jg, Heft 2, 2018, S. 243–264
(in cooperation with Henry Goecke, Judith Niehues, Tobias Thomas) Impact of Inequality-Related Media Coverage on the Concerns of German Citizens Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Discussion Paper, No. 258, pp. 2–35
(in cooperation with Markus Demary) A European "Bad Bank": A Crisis Management Tool, but not a Substitute for Structural Reforms FAES Papers, No. 204, Madrid, 2017
(in cooperation with Henry Goecke) Productivity, Technology Diffusion and Digitization CESifo Forum , Vol. 18, Heft 1, 2017, 26–32
(in cooperation with Knut Bergmann, Judith Niehues) Allzeit fern des Durchschnitts: Politische Ansichten der AfD-Anhänger Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 30. Jg., Heft 2, 2017, Seite 12–25
(in cooperation with Knut Bergmann, Judith Niehues) Die AfD: Eine Partei der sich ausgeliefert fühlenden Durchschnitts-verdiener? ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 48. Jg, Heft 1, 2017, S. 57–75
(in cooperation with Berthold Busch, Henry Goecke, Michael Hüther) Brexit und die Zukunft Europas – eine spieltheoretische Einordnung Wirtschaftsdienst, 96. Jg., Heft 12, S. 883–890
(in cooperation with Henry Goecke, Michael Hüther) Ökonomische Perspektiven der digitalen Transformation – Zwischen Produktivitätsrätsel und Wachstumshoffnung Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences, i. E.
(in cooperation with Michael Hüther) Mit dem großen Hebel für mehr Investitionen: ökonomische Bewertung des Juncker Plans Wirtschaftsdienst, 95. Jg., Heft 5, 2015, S. 334–341
(in cooperation with Torsten Schmidt) Oil Price Implications on Land Use Change Agricultural Economics Review (forthcoming), 2014
(in cooperation with Martin Eiglsperger) Treatment of Seasonal Items Related Structural Breaks in the HICP presented at the conferences: Messung der Preise in Trier 2012 and at the Ottawa-Group Meeting in Kopenhagen 2013
(in cooperation with Yngve Abrahamsen) The Construction Market in Switzerland Country Report, All Country Reports of 72st Euroconstruct Conference, Paris, 2011
Results from a Survey of Business and Employers' Associations
External Publication 26. February 2024
How German Business deals with the populist radical right party Alternative for Germany (AfD): Results from a Survey of Business and Employers' Associations
Knut Bergmann / Matthias Diermeier / Daniel Kinderman / Wolfgang Schroeder
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has established itself in Germany as a liberal-right-wing populist party in terms of its economic policy programme.
Knut Bergmann / Matthias Diermeier / Daniel Kinderman / Wolfgang Schroeder IW
Changing Germany's Statutory Pension Insurance: An Empirical Study of Popular Aversion to Reforms
Matthias Diermeier / Ruth Maria Schüler
The demographic transition is putting the German statutory pension insurance system under enormous pressure to reform. Despite widespread concern, no reform of the adjustment mechanisms incorporated into the pension system meets with the approval of a majority of the population.
Too Much or Too Little Reform?: Public Discussion of the Revised Unemployment Benefit
Matthias Diermeier/ Jan Felix Engler / Holger Schäfer
Under its new name, Citizens' Benefit (Bürgergeld), Germany’s reformed unemployment benefit was supposed to put basic benefits for job-seekers on a new footing and fulfil the political promise to "overcome" its controversial predecessor known, after its original sponsor’s final proposal, as ‘Hartz IV’.
Matthias Diermeier/ Jan Felix Engler / Holger Schäfer IW
How Stereotyping the Rich and the Poor Impacts Redistributive Preferences in Germany
External Publication 20. March 2023
Punching up or Punching down?: How Stereotyping the Rich and the Poor Impacts Redistributive Preferences in Germany
Matthias Diermeier / Madeleine F. Fischer / Judith Niehues in SOEP papers
Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner.
Matthias Diermeier / Madeleine F. Fischer / Judith Niehues in SOEP papers IW
The Rise and Fall of Industrial Cities on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Ruth Maria Schüler / Matthias Diermeier
Buffalo (New York) and Dortmund (North Rhine Westphalia) as well as Akron (Ohio) and Chemnitz (Saxony) are twin cities that share the history of deindustrialization. At the same time, they experienced rapid population growth and a globalization shock in the middle and end (East Germany) of the twentieth century. The structural change in the Rust Belt was accompanied by economic upheavals, which is still reflected in today’s reluctance for electoral participation. In this respect, social security and regional policy have had a stabilizing effect in Germany.
evidence on parliamentarians’ responsiveness and misinformation toleration from a field experiment
External Publication 5. January 2023
Tailoring the Truth: evidence on parliamentarians’ responsiveness and misinformation toleration from a field experiment
Matthias Diermeier at European Political Science Review
The rise of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) is largely seen to have been triggered by a dealignment between voters and political elites and to have triggered an increasing supply of misinformation.
Matthias Diermeier at European Political Science Review IW
How current megatrends shape the patters of international trade, capital flows and technology diffusion
External Publication 4. July 2022
Globalisation under pressure?: How current megatrends shape the patters of international trade, capital flows and technology diffusion
Michael Hüther / Matthias Diermeier in Ernest Gnan / Christoph Schneider / Claudia Stowasser (Hg.) Schwerpunkt Außenwirtschaft 2021/2022
Deglobalisation, digitalisation, decarbonisation, and demographic change have already left their mark on the global economy. In the future the multiple transformations that the international patterns of specialisation undergo are likely to accelerate as the four megatrends mature and unfold their true disruptive potential.
Michael Hüther / Matthias Diermeier in Ernest Gnan / Christoph Schneider / Claudia Stowasser (Hg.) Schwerpunkt Außenwirtschaft 2021/2022 IW
Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues in LSE-Blog Contribution 17. June 2022
The difficulties of universal redistribution in times of welfare chauvinism
Previous studies have found substantial support across Europe for the creation of a universal basic income system. Yet as Matthias Diermeier and Judith Niehues explain, there is also widespread support for restricting the access of immigrants to state benefits. Drawing on new research, they assess how these two perspectives shape wider attitudes toward welfare.
Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues in LSE-Blog IW
a program specific analysis of welfare preferences
External Publication 17. June 2022
Towards a nuanced understanding of anti-immigration sentiment in the welfare state: a program specific analysis of welfare preferences
Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues in Rationality and Society
The literature on immigration and the welfare state describes a trade-off between immigration and welfare support. We argue for a more nuanced view of welfare chauvinism that accounts for different motivational channels, specific welfare programs and particular population subgroups.
Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues in Rationality and Society IW
Workshop of the MPIfG and the German Economic Institute: Local Matters: Regional Inequalities in Public Investments
The neglect of public investments in Germany and elsewhere has not only led to a deterioration of countries’ public capital stocks. In fact, what appears as an aggregate decline actually entails growing divergences between regions that can invest in their infrastructures and those that fall behind.
Matthias Diermeier IW
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