Michele CHANG

Courses offered:

• Compulsory course first semester: Political Economy of European Integration: Single Currency, Single Market (20h)
• Compulsory course second semester: Political Economy of European Integration: Trade (10h)
• Optional course second semester: Financing the EU's geopolitical ambitions and economic transformations: EU fiscal, financial and monetary policies  (30h) (with Gabriel GLÖCKLER)

Previous professional affiliations: Boston University; Centre for European Policy Studies; Cornell University; Colgate University

Education: Ph.D. University of California San Diego; B.A. Smith College

Other professional activities:Trans European Policy Studies Association; European Union Studies Association; Scientific Committee of the Brexit Research and Policy Institute, Dublin City University; Advisory Panel of Positive Money Europe; Academic Advisory Board, European Student Think Tank

Research interests : Economic and Monetary Union, euro area, euro area economic governance, European Central Bank, fiscal policy coordination, Banking Union, financial crises

• Chang, M. (2025). "Global euro, global Europe: Why Europe needs a safe asset." European Council Experts’ Debrief(Issue XV): 13-14. https://tepsa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/EUCO-Debrief-II-2025-1.pdf
• Chang, M. (2025). "The Letta and Draghi Reports: Economic Efficiency Versus Political Exigency." JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70013
• Chang, M., et al. (2025). "From Menace to Mundane: Moral Hazard and the Politics of the European Central Bank's Government Bond Purchases." JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 63(1): 267-283. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcms.13614
• Chang, M. (2024). "Show me the money: financing Europe’s strategic, green and digital ambitions through Capital Markets Union." EUCO Debrief: The Future of EU Financing May 2024. https://tepsa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EUCO-Debrief-May-2024-1.pdf
• Chang, M. (2024). "A road map or a road not taken? The Draghi report on EU competitiveness." College of Europe News Article. https://www.coleurope.eu/newsarticles/road-map-or-road-not-taken-draghi-report-eu-competitiveness
• Chang, M. and R. U. Diez (2024). Still the Dealmaker? The Council Presidency in EMU. EU Council Presidencies in Times of Crisis. R. Coman and V. Sierens. London, Palgrave: 233-263.
• Chang, Michele. 2023. "Government Bond-Buying by the European Central Bank: Leadership Versus Accountability." In The Cambridge Handbook of European Monetary, Economic and Financial Integration, edited by Dariusz Adamski, Fabian Amtenbrink and Jakob De Haan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Chang, Michele. 2023. "Reindustrialising Europe: synergies of the Single Market."  Elcano Royal Institute ARI 66/2023 (17 July).
• Chang, Michele. 2023. "Legtimizing central bank independence under the post-Maastricht framework." In The Political Economy of Europe’s Future and Identity: Integration in crisis mode, edited by Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres, 210-218. Florence and Lisbon: European University Institute and UCP Press.
• Chang, Michele, Gabriel Glöckler , and Laura Pierret. 2023. "Fighting Fires from Crisis to Crisis: The Evolution of Central Banking in Europe." In The EU Political System after the 2019 European Elections, edited by Olivier Costa and Steven Van Hecke. London: Palgrave.
• Chang, Michele. 2023. "Chapter 11: Economic Governance." In Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction, edited by Erik Jones and Masha Hedberg. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Chang, Michele. 2022. "The Art of Compromise: Belgium as the Bridge between Germany and France."  German Politics 31 (2):218-239. doi: 10.1080/09644008.2021.2002847.
• Chang, Michele. 2021. "Euro Area fiscal policies and capacity in post-pandemic times."  Paper prepared for the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs PE 689.445 -July 2021. doi: doi:10.2861/063465 | QA-03-21-227-EN-N.