Short Profile:

Friederike is a doctoral researcher within the OBFA-Transform group, where her work explores the economics and political economy of energy transformations. Her research focuses on how past and present transformation processes shape macroeconomic volatility, and how states can design strategies to manage these dynamics. From 2023 to 2025, she was a research assistant with the OBFA-Transform team.

She holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Economic Policy from the Berlin School of Economics and Sorbonne Université in Paris, completed within the European Erasmus Mundus programme Economic Policies for the Global Transition (EPOG). Prior to this, she earned a B.Sc. in Economics and Management Science from the University of Leipzig.

Beyond academia, Friederike has been actively involved in initiatives to broaden the economics curriculum. She worked with the German Network for Pluralism in Economics and participated in student-led projects advocating for greater diversity of approaches and interdisciplinarity in economic education.

Selected Publications:

Reimer, Friederike, Andrei Guter-Sandu, Armin Haas, and Steffen Murau (2024) ‘Schrödinger’s Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agency. The Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Limits to Incremental Fiscal Integration in Europe’, OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 3-EN, September 2024, Berlin: Global Climate Forum.

Haas, Armin, Friederike Reimer, Andrei Guter-Sandu, and Steffen Murau (2024) ‘The Mefo Operation. A Macro-Financial Analysis of Camouflaged Sovereign Borrowing through Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies, 1933-1945’, OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 2-EN, August 2024, Berlin: Global Climate Forum