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Start of new Emmy Noether Research Group at Global Climate Forum and Freie Universität Berlin

2 Apr 2023 | This month marks the launch of the OBFA-TRANSFORM project, a new six-year research group hosted at Global Climate Forum and Freie Universität Berlin.

The research group will investigate how it is possible for states in modern monetary architectures, which are largely privatized and globalized, to finance politically desired large-scale transformations such as wars, reconstruction, or the Green Transition to net-zero carbon emissions. The group is financed by an Emmy Noether grant of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft obtained by Steffen Murau who will be the principal investigator. See project website…

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Interview series with Dezernat Zukunft

6 Jun 2020 | Berlin-based think tank Dezernat Zukunft interviews Steffen Murau on the privatized Offshore US-Dollar System and the prospects of a further Euro internationalization. In Part 1 of the interview series, Steffen Murau […]

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Online Discussion with Robert McCauley on the Special Drawing Rights System and Its Ability to Ease Financial Strains in the Global South

13 Feb 2022 | At the second Money View Symposium, Steffen Murau gives a preview on a new INET Working Paper that analyzes the IMF’s SDR system as a web of interlocking balance sheets and […]

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New publication on shadow money theory

28 May 2020 | The Private Debt Project, a Philadelphia-based online journal, has published a piece that analyses and systematizes different current shadow money theories. In their co-authored piece, Steffen Murau and Tobias Pforr argue […]

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