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Talks

Conference and workshop presentations

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), Finance and Society, 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, 1st Workshop of the 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 Europäischen Währungsunion. Eine Phänomenologie der Kausalzuschreibungen im deutschen Diskurs über die Eurokrise der Jahre 2010 und 2011’, Nachwuchstagung Internationale Politische Ökonomie, Heidelberg, 22 March 2013.

Conference and workshop organization

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