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Talks

Conference and workshop presentations

2026 | ‘Monetary Architecture. Interlocking Balance Sheet Analysis’, Workshop of “Currency Hierarchy”, Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 9 July 2026.

2026 | ‘The Political Economy of Financing Large-Scale Transformations. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Wars, Reconstruction, and the Green Transition’, research seminar, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 16 June 2026.

2026 | ‘Monetary Architecture. Interlocking Balance Sheet Analysis’, Workshop of “Currency Hierarchy”, Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 9 July 2026.

2026 | ‘The Political Economy of Financing Large-Scale Transformations. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Wars, Reconstruction, and the Green Transition’, research seminar, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 16 June 2026.

2026 | ‘The Monetary Architecture Framework as a Toolkit for Critical Finance Research’, Key Note, OBFA-TRANSFORM Workshop “Monetary Architecture. Mapping the Web of Interlocking Balance Sheets in Times
of Change”, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 12 June 2026.

2026 | ‘How to Finance a Transformation? State Finance Beyond the Core Budget’, Catalyse Europe retreat, Schloss Elmau, 11 June 2026. 

2026 | ‘Rethinking Monetary Sovereignty. The Global Credit Money System and the State’, Workshop “After Dollar Hegemony”, European University Institute, Florence, 27 May 2026.

2026 | ‘The Evolution of the Offshore Dollar System. Past, Present, and Four Possible Futures’, KriWi Ringvorlesung, Freie Universität Berlin, 5 May 2026.

2026 | ‘Après le Déluge. Managing Balance Sheet Contraction after the First World War’, Economic History Society, London School of Economics and Political Science, 11 April 2026.

2026 | ‘Après le Déluge. Managing Balance Sheet Contraction after the First World War’, Money View Symposium, 27 February 2026.

2026 | ‘The Transformation of South Africa’s Monetary Architecture, 1983-2024. A Report for the National Planning Commission’, Money View Symposium, 27 February 2026.

2025 | ‘Comments on “Reflexive Money. A New Paradigm for Debt and Democracy”’, Concluding Symposium of “RE:SOLVENCY. A Theory of Reflexive Debt”, Freie Universität Berlin, 17 November 2025.

2025 | ‘The Mefo Operation. A Macro-Financial Analysis of Camouflaged Sovereign Borrowing through Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies, 1933-1945’, Berliner Forschungskolloquium Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte,
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 12 November 2025.

2025 | ‘Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity’, EAEPE conference, Athens, 25 September 2025.

2025 | ‘Transformation of the Eurozone Architecture. On Crises and Institutional Change in the Offshore US-Dollar System’, EAEPE conference, Athens, 25 September 2025.

2025 | ‘A Feature, not a Bug. The US Dollar in the European Monetary Union’, Workshop “Central Banking Summer Forum”, Bank for International Settlements, Monetary and Economic Department, Virtual Research Seminar, 8 September 2025.

2025 | ‘The Mefo Operation. A Macro-Financial Analysis of Camouflaged Sovereign Borrowing through Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies, 1933-1945’, World Economic History Congress (WEHC), Lund, 29 July 2025.

2025 | ‘Transformation of the European Monetary Architecture in the Global Financial Crisis and the Eurocrisis’, Ringvorlesung “Finanzkrisen und Geldsysteme”, KriWis FU Berlin, double lecture, 2-3 July 2025.

2025 | ‘A Feature, not a Bug. The US Dollar in the European Monetary Union’, Workshop “Central Banking Summer Forum”, Hertie School of Governance, 4 July 2025.

2025 | ‘A Feature, not a Bug. The US Dollar in the European Monetary Union’, Workshop “Money and Payments. Evolution or Revolution?”, Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study, 26 May 2025.

2025 | ‘A Feature, not a Bug. The US Dollar in the European Monetary Union’, Conference “International Clearing, Cross-Border Payment Systems and International Monetary Reforms. Ideas, History, and Contemporary Issues”, Valence, 15 May 2025.

2025 | ‘Rethinking Currency Internationalisation. Offshore Money Creation and the EU’s Monetary Governance’, Workshop by Dezernat Zukunft, Berlin, 8 April 2025.

2025 | ‘Stranded Assets and War Finance. Lessons for Management Balance Sheet Contraction in Modern Monetary Architectures’, Spring Meeting, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 7 April 2025.

2025 | ‘Locked Into Complexity. Path Dependency and German Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies’, Spring Meeting, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 7 April 2025.

2025 | ‘State Finance Beyond the Core Budget. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Germany’s Fiscal Ecosystem’, Regional Industrial Policy Workshop, Saarbrücken, 2 April 2025.

2025 | ‘Das Mefo-Verfahren. Eine makro-finanzielle Analyse der verdeckten öffentlichen Schuldenaufnahme durch bilanzexterne Fiskalagenturen’, Jahrestagung 2025 der Keynes-Gesellschaft, 10 March 2025.

2025 | ‘State Finance Beyond the Core Budget. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Germany’s Fiscal Ecosystem’, Money View Symposium, 15 February 2025.

2025 | ‘Monetäre Architektur und die grüne Transformation’, Ringvorlesung “Paradigmen und Kontroversen ökonomischer Theorien”, Freie Universität Berlin, 3 February 2025.

2025 | ‘Monetary Architecture and the OBFA-TRANSFORM Research Group’, YSI Workshop at John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, 11 January 2025.

2024 | ‘Großflächige Transformation gestalten?! Monetäre Architektur und die grüne Transformation’, Universität Münster, 29 October 2024.

2024 | ‘State Finance Beyond the Core Budget. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Germany’s Fiscal Ecosystem’, Critical Macro-Finance Workshop at HWR Berlin, 23 July 2024.

2024 | ‘Schrödinger’s Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agency. The Recovery and Resilience Facility in the Transforming European Monetary Architecture’, Annual conference of the Council of European Studies, Lyon, 5 July 2024. 

2024 | ‘Decoding Dollar Dominance. The Global Credit View on Money in International Political Economy’ (with Herman Mark Schwartz), Special Issue Workshop, Lillehammer, 11 May 2024.

2024 | ‘A Feature, not a Bug. The US-Dollar in the European Monetary Union’ (with Torsten Ehlers), Special Issue Workshop, Lillehammer, 10 May 2024.

2024 | ‘The Mefo Operation. A Macro-Financial Analysis of Hjalmar Schacht’s Shadow Money Scheme’ (with Armin Haas, Friederike Reimer, and Andrei Guter-Sandu), Workshop ‘Creative Accounting to Finance Transformation? Exploring the Mefo Scheme’, Berlin, 20 March 2024.

2024 | ‘Forging Monetary Unification through Novation. The TARGET System and the Politics of Central Banking in Europe’ (with Matteo Giordano), Money View Symposium, 2 February 2024.

2024 | ‘Staatsverschuldung und Transformation der monetären Architektur in Preußen und dem Deutschen Kaiserreich, 1740-1914’, Presentation to the financial administration of Hansestadt Hamburg, 23 January
2024.

2024 | ‘A feature, not a bug. The US Dollar in the European Monetary Union’ (with Torsten Ehlers), GCF Symposium: “The Political Economy of International Money”, Conference at Global Climate Forum, Berlin, 15 January 2024.

2023 | ‘The Monetary Architecture Framework. Methodology, Existing Case Studies, the OBFA-TRANSFORM project, and Application to South Africa’, Union Buildings, Pretoria, 3 December 2023.

2023 | ‘Re-assessing Fragmentation of the Euro Area Banking System. Offshore Channels for Cross-Border Banking Activities’ (with Iñaki Aldasoro and Torsten Ehlers), Workshop “Continuity and Transformation in
the (Shadow) Banking System since the Global Financial Crisis”, European University Institute, Florence, 27 October 2023.

2023 | ‘Die Geschichte von Sondervermögen’, Interdisziplinäres Seminar zur Zukunft der Schuldenbremse, Berlin, 13 October 2023.

2023 | ‘The Monetary Architecture Framework. Methodology, Existing Case Studies, the OBFA-TRANSFORM project, and Possible Applications to South Africa’, Stellenbosch University (online), 2 October 2023.

2023 | ‘Re-assessing Fragmentation of the Euro Area Banking System. Offshore Channels for Cross-Border Banking Activities’ (with Iñaki Aldasoro and Torsten Ehlers), Workshop “Offshore Finance in International Political Economy”, Freie Universität Berlin, 28 September 2023.

2023 | ‘Euro Internationalization and the Future of the “Offshore US-Dollar System”’ (with Jens van ‘t Klooster), Annual Conference of the Political Economy Section of the German Association for Political Science, Universität Witten/Herdecke, 21 September 2023.

2023 | ‘Transformation of the Eurozone Architecture. On Crises and Institutional Change in the “Offshore US-Dollar System”’ (with Alexandru-Stefan Goghie, Matteo Giordano, and Ludwig Schulze), Annual Conference of the Political Economy Section of the German Association for Political Science, Universität Witten/Herdecke, 21 September 2023.

2023 | ‘Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition’ (with Armin Haas and Andrei Guter-Sandu), Annual Conference of the Political Economy Section of the German Association for Political Science, Universität Witten/Herdecke, 21 September 2023.

2023 | ‘Financing the Green Transition in the European Monetary Architecture’ (with Armin Haas and Andrei Guter-Sandu), 35th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), University of Leeds, 14 September 2023.

2023 | ‘Transformation of the Eurozone Architecture. On Crises and Institutional Change in the “Offshore US-Dollar System”’ (with Alexandru-Stefan Goghie, Matteo Giordano, and Ludwig Schulze), Workshop “Money in Open Economies”, Leeds Business School, 12 September 2023.

2023 | ‘International Monetary Hierarchy through Emergency US-Dollar Liquidity. A Key Currency Approach’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), 3rd European MMT Conference, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht (HWR) Berlin, 9 September 2023.

2023 | ‘The Monetary Architecture Framework. Methodology, Existing Case Studies, and a Possible Application to South Africa’, National Planning Commission (NPC) of South Africa (online), 27 July 2023.

2023 | ‘The Methodology of the OBFA-TRANSFORM Project. How to Connect Visuals of Interlocking Balance Sheets with Quantitative Data?’, Workshop “Building a Dataset for the OBFA-TRANSFORM project, Global Climate
Forum, Berlin, 20 July 2023.

2023 | ‘Financing the Green Transition in the European Monetary Architecture’ (with Armin Haas and Andrei Guter-Sandu), Workshop “Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies and the Role of the State in Financing the Green Transition”, Global Climate Forum, Berlin, 18 July 2023.

2023 | ‘Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition’ (with Armin Haas and Andrei Guter-Sandu), IPE Political Economy Forum, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht (HWR) Berlin, 13 July 2023.

2023 | ‘Encumbered Security. Conceptualizing Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area’ (with Alexandru-Stefan Goghie and Matteo Giordano), Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, 21 June 2023.

2023 | ‘Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition’ (with Armin Haas and Andrei Guter-Sandu), Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0 Conference, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg, 16 June 2023.

2023 | ‘Roundtable: On the Role of Banks, Monetary Policy, and Fiscal Policy in the Social Ecological Transformation’, Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0 Conference, THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg, 15 June 2023.

2023 | ‘Transformation of the Eurozone Architecture. On Crises and Institutional Change in the “Offshore US-Dollar System”’ (with Alexandru-Stefan Goghie, Matteo Giordano, and Ludwig Schulze), Symposium “Crises Capitalism. Shadow Banking, Central Banks, and New Configurations of State-Financial Market Entanglements”, Convention Center Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, 8 June 2023.

2023 | ‘Sovereign Debt Issuance and Transformation of the Monetary Architecture in Prussia and the German Empire, 1740–1914’, Dezernat Zukunft, 5 June 2023.

2023 | ‘Die Europäische Währungsarchitektur im “Offshore US-Dollar System”’, Monetärer Workshop, Schader-Stiftung Darmstadt, 13 May 2023.

2023 | ‘Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition’ (with Armin Haas and Andrei Guter-Sandu), IPE Research Seminar, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, 26 April 2023.

2023 | ‘Euro Internationalization and the Future of the Offshore US-Dollar System’ (with Jens van ‘t Klooster), Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, 18 March 2023.

2022 | ‘European Monetary Integration through Novation. The Political Economy of the TARGET System’ (with Matteo Giordano), 26th Conference of the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM), Berlin, 22 October 2022.

2022 | ‘After the Allocation. What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Sektionstagung Politische Ökonomie, 22-23 September 2022.

2022 | ‘European Monetary Integration through Novation. The Political Economy of the TARGET System’ (with Matteo Giordano), 34th Annual Conference of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Naples, 7-9 September 2022.

2022 | ‘After the Allocation. What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), European Consortium for Political Research, ECPR General Conference, University of Innsbruck, 22-26 August 2022.

2022 | ‘European Monetary Integration through Novation. The Political Economy of the TARGET System’ (with Matteo Giordano), ‘Central Banks and Its Discontents’ conference, Berlin, 11-13 July 2022.

2022 | ‘After the Allocation. What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), ‘Central Banks and Its Discontents’ conference, Berlin, 11-13 July 2022.

2022 | ‘After the Allocation. What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), Drei-Länder-Tagung Internationale Politische Ökonomie, Technische Universität München, TUM Akademiezentrum, Raitenhaslach, 20 June 2022.

2022 | ‘A Macro-Financial Model of the Eurozone Architecture Embedded in the global Offshore US-Dollar System’, Drei-Länder-Tagung Internationale Politische Ökonomie, Technische Universität München, TUM Akademiezentrum, Raitenhaslach, 20 June 2022.

2022 | ‘European Monetary Integration through Novation. The Political Economy of the TARGET System’ (with
Matteo Giordano), Research Colloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, 7 June 2022.

2022 | ‘European Monetary Integration through Novation. The Political Economy of the TARGET System’ (with
Matteo Giordano) Workshop ‘Beyond “Normal” Central Banking’, Ghent University, 25-26 May 2022.

2022 | ‘Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition’ (with Andrei Guter-Sandu and Armin Haas), Annual
Meeting of the International Studies Association, Nashville, 29 March 2022.

2022 | ‘After the Allocation. What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias
Pforr), Money View Symposium #2, 13 February 2022.

2022 | ‘After the Allocation.What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias
Pforr), Research seminar, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University.

2021 | ‘Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition’ (with Andrei Guter-Sandu and Armin Haas), Research
seminar, Department of International Politics, City, University of London, 13 December 2021.

2021 | ‘After the Allocation. What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?’, Research seminar, Global
Development Policy Center, Boston University, 30 November 2021.

2021 | ‘Covid-19 and Emerging Market Debt. What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?’ (with Fabian
Pape and Tobias Pforr), Warwick Critical Finance Manuscript Development Workshop 3.0, 23-24 September 2021.

2021 | ‘Covid-19 and Emerging Market Debt. What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?’ (with Fabian
Pape and Tobias Pforr), 13th Annual Critical Finance Studies Conference, 6-8 September 2021.

2021 | ‘Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition’ (with Andrei Guter-Sandu and Armin Haas), 33rd Annual
Conference of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), 2-4 September 2021.

2021 | ‘The Hierarchy of the Offshore US-Dollar System. On Swap Lines, the FIMA Repo Facility and Special
Drawing Rights’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Mini-Conference “The Political Economy of Financial Subordination”, 5 July 2021.

2021 | ‘The Eurozone’s Evolving Fiscal Ecosystem after COVID-19. Mitigating Fiscal Discipline by
Governing through Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies’ (with Andrei Guter-Sandu), Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Mini-Conference “Fiscal Relations in a Post-Covid World”, 2 July 2021.

2021 | ‘The Offshore US-Dollar System and Extraterritorial US Jurisdiction. Two Sides of the Same Coin?’ (with
Sascha Lohmann), Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Online Expert Exchange, 31 May 2021.

2021 | ‘Monetary Power in the Offshore US-Dollar System. The Creation of International Hierarchy through
Mechanisms of Emergency USD Provision’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, 6 April 2021.

2021 | ‘The Hierarchy of the Offshore US-Dollar System. On Swap Lines, the FIMA Repo Facility and Special
Drawing Rights’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), Warwick Critical Finance Workshop, 18 February 2021.

2021 | ‘A Macro-Financial Model of the Eurozone Architecture Embedded in the global Offshore US-Dollar
System’, Annual Conference of the European Banking Institute (EBI) Young Researchers Group, 12 February 2021.

2021 | ‘The Hierarchy of the Offshore US-Dollar System. On Swap Lines, the FIMA Repo Facility and Special
Drawing Rights’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), Money View Online Workshop, Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), Institute for New Economic Thinking, 5-7 February 2021.

2020 | ‘The Transformation of Eurozone Fiscal Governance. Mitigating Fiscal Discipline through a
Proliferation of Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies’ (with Andrei Guter-Sandu), Research seminar, Department of International Politics, City, University of London, 28 October 2020.

2020 | ‘The Transformation of Eurozone Fiscal Governance. Mitigating Fiscal Discipline through a Proliferation of Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies’ (with Andrei Guter-Sandu), EuroMemo conference, 23 September 2020.

2020 | ‘The Hierarchy of the Offshore US-Dollar System. An Analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Swap Lines,
Foreign Repo Facilities and IMF Special Drawing Rights’ (with Fabian Pape and Tobias Pforr), 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), 3 September 2020.

2020 | ‘A Macro-Financial Model of the Eurozone Architecture Embedded in the global Offshore US-Dollar
System’, Workshop ‘Crisis Capitalism. Shadow banking, central banks, and new configurations of state-financial market entanglements’, 16 July 2020. 

2020 | ‘Towards a Macro-Financial Model of the Eurozone Architecture’, workshop ‘Critical Macro-Finance and the European Monetary Union’, Boston University, 18 March 2020.

2019 | ‘Private Debt as Shadow Money? Conceptual Criteria, Empirical Evaluation and Implications for Financial
Stability’ (with Tobias Pforr), Intersections of Finance and Society conference, London, 12-13 December 2019.

2019 | ‘Towards a Macro-Financial Model of the Eurozone Architecture’, 31st Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Warsaw, 14 September 2019.

2019 | ‘Towards a Macro-Financial Model of the Eurozone Architecture’, Critical Macro-Finance Workshop, London, 10 September 2019.

2019 | ‘Understanding Money as Infrastructure. A Holistic Approach to Thinking about the Three Prices of Money
and their Consequences’ (with Tobias Pforr), Critical Macro-Finance Workshop, London, 9 September 2019.

2019 | ‘States, Markets – and Technocrats. Towards a Theory of Financial Globalization’ (with Benjamin Braun
and Arie Krampf), Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Toronto, 28 March 2019.

2019 | ‘Private Credit Money Accommodation. Rethinking Monetary Sovereignty’ (with Jens van ‘t Klooster),
Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Toronto, 27 March 2019.

2019 | ‘The Future of Offshore Dollar Creation. Four Scenarios for the International Monetary System by 2040’,
European University Institute, Florence, 7 March 2019.

2019 | ‘The Future of Offshore Dollar Creation. Four Scenarios for the International Monetary System by 2040’
(with Armin Haas and Joe Rini), 15. Jahrestagung der Keynes-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 19 February 2019.

2019 | ‘The Offshore US Dollar System—and the Role the BRICS Play in it’, University of Erfurt, 24 January
2019.

2018 | ‘Quantitative Easing, Central Bank Independence and the Seeming Fundamental Difference Between
Monetary and Fiscal Policy’ (with Tobias Pforr), Futures of Finance and Society conference, University of Edinburgh, 6 December 2018.

2018 | ‘Quantitative Easing, Central Bank Independence and the Illusory Fundamental Difference between
Fiscal and Monetary Policy’ (with Tobias Pforr), Political Economy of Finance conference, University of Oxford, 12-13 October 2018.

2018 | ‘Quantitative Easing, Central Bank Independence and the Illusory Fundamental Difference between
Fiscal and Monetary Policy’ (with Tobias Pforr), 30th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Nice, 6-8 September 2018.

2018 | ‘Offshore Dollar Creation in the post-2008 International Monetary System: Eurodollars, Shadow
Money and Central Bank Swap Lines’, Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP) Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge (MA), 3 June 2018.

2018 | ‘Offshore Dollar Creation in the post-2008 International Monetary System’, Financialisation and
the Future of Money, Politics of Money Network, University of Sussex, Brighton, 18 May 2018.

2018 | ‘Shadow Money in the post-2008 International Monetary System: Central Bank Swaps, Eurodollars and
Foreign Exchange Swaps’, Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco (California), 7 April 2018.

2017 | ‘The present and possible futures of the International Monetary System: Offshore dollar creation via C6 swap lines, eurodollars and shadow money’, University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol, 6 November 2017.

2017 | ‘A Credit Money Perspective on the post-2008 International Monetary System’, Intersections of
Finance and Society conference, City, University of London, 2 November 2017.

2017 | ‘The post-2008 International Monetary System. Offshore Dollar Creation via C6 Swaps Lines,
Eurodollars and Foreign Exchange Swaps’, 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Budapest, 19 October 2017.

2017 | ‘The post-2008 International Monetary System. Offshore Dollar Creation via C6 Swaps Lines,
Eurodollars and Foreign Exchange Swaps’ (with Armin Haas and Joe Rini), International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE), Berlin, 13 September 2017.

2017 | ‘Offshore Dollar Creation in the post-2008 International Monetary System: C6 Swap Lines, Eurodollars and Foreign Exchange Swaps’, Workshop ‘The International Monetary System in Financial Times’, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), 23 June 2017.

2016 | ‘European Monetary Integration and the Public-Private Money Divide. Can Post-Crisis Reforms Harmonize Private Money Creation in the Eurozone?’, 3rd European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Tübingen, 6-8 April 2016.

2016 | ‘The Politics of Public vs. Private Credit Money. Accommodating Shadow Money in the 2008 Financial
Crisis’, Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta (Georgia), 17 March 2016.

2015 | ‘Private Credit Money Accommodation and the 2007-9 Financial Crisis’, Workshop ‘Public and/or Private
Money’, University of Cambridge, 7 December 2015.

2015 | ‘Private Credit Money Accommodation in the 2007-9 Financial Crisis. A Study of Money Market Fund
shares, Repurchase Agreements and Asset-backed Commercial Papers’, 27th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Genoa, 19 September 2015.

2014 | ‘IMF Reform Negotiations in the G20. Comparing Actorness and Power in the Foreign Financial
Policies of the EU, the US and ASEAN’ (with Kilian Spandler), EU in International Affairs IV Conference, Brussels, 23 May 2014.

2013 | ‘Deutschland und die Krise der Europäische Währungsunion. Eine Phänomenologie der Kasualzuschreibungen im deutschen Diskurs über die Eurokrises der Jahre 2010 und 2011’, Nachwuchstagung Internationale Politische Ökonomie, Heidelberg, 22 March 2013.

Conference and workshop organization

2026 | ‘Monetary Architecture. Mapping the Web of Interlocking Balance Sheets in Times of Change’, OBFA-TRANSFORM Workshop at John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin,
12-13 June 2026.

2025 | ‘The Political Economy of the Eurozone Crisis. Fifteen Years after the First Greek Bailout’, Special session at the Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Athens, 24-26 September 2025.

2025 | ‘Spring Meeting’, Global Climate Forum and Hertie School of Governance, 7 April 2025.

2025 | ‘Money as If Finance Mattered’, Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin, Organized with Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), 9-11 January 2025.

2024 | ‘Critical Macro-Finance in Europe and Beyond’, Workshop at Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht (HWR), Berlin, 23 July 2024.

2024 | ‘2024. The State of Financial Capitalism’, Public roundtable at Global Climate Forum, Berlin, 16 January 2024.

2024 | ‘GCF & YSI Graduate Colloquium: The Political Economy of International Money’, Workshop at Global Climate Forum, Berlin, 16  January 2024.

2024 | ‘GCF Symposium: The Political Economy of International Money’, Conference at Global Climate Forum, Berlin, 15-16 January 2024.

2023 | ‘The Global US Dollar System and the Role of the Fed’, special session at the 35th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) in Leeds, 13-15 September 2023.

2023 | ‘Building a Dataset for the OBFA-TRANSFORM project’, Workshop at Global Climate Forum, Berlin, 20 July 2023.

2023 | ‘Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies and the Role of the State in Financing the Green Transition’, Workshop at Global Climate Forum, Berlin, 18-19 July 2023.

2021 | ‘Balance Sheet Methodology and Financial Globalization’, workshop at Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, Boston (MA), 21 October 2021.

2021 | ‘Climate change and the post-COVID recovery: What role for central banks and financial regulators?’, panel series organized at the annual conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), 2-4 September 2021.

2021 | ‘The Political Economy of the Global Offshore US-Dollar System’, panel organized at the Annual Conference of the International Studies Association (online), 6 April 2021.

2020 | ‘Critical macro-finance and international financial hierarchies in the Basel III world’, special session at the annual conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), 2-4 September 2020.

2020 | ‘Withered Westphalia. The Political Economy of the Global Offshore US-Dollar System’, panel organized at the Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, April 2020 (cancelled).

2020 | ‘Critical Macro-Finance and the European Monetary Union’, workshop at Global Development Policy Center and Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University, Boston (MA), 18 March 2020.

2018 | ‘Challenges and Experiments in Monetary Sovereignty’, conference organized at Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School, Cambridge (MA), 2-3 June 2018.

2017 | ‘The International Monetary System in Financial Times’, workshop organized at Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), 23 June 2017.

2016 | ‘Die Idee eines Weltparlaments. Demokratisierung globaler Politik oder Verstetigung hegemonialer Ordnung?’, conference organized by IFAIR e.V. in collaboration with Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin and Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Berlin, 1 October 2016.

2015 | ‘Public and/or private money?’, PhD workshop organized in collaboration with Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), 7 December 2015.