Armin Haas is since August 2023 part of the Emmy-Noether research group OBFA-TRANSFORM.

In the membership network of GCF he leads the Integrated Risk Governance research line.

His main research foci concern the economic, ecological, and social sustainability of the financial system, and innovative contributions to the management and governance of systemic risks. In particular, his research focuses on innovative approaches for the management of large-scale complex uncertainties.

Armin Haas holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. From 2000-2012, he worked as a senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and headed the research group Bayesian Risk Management. Haas was with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) from 2013-2023, and was a member of the Systemic Risk research group.

Armin Haas is the co-founder of MCII, the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, and acted as its treasurer for 18 years. Armin is a co-founder of TheCompensators*. Together with colleagues from PIK and IIASA, he conceived the SuperSmart Grid.

Selected Publications

Guter-Sandu, Andrei, Armin Haas, and Steffen Murau (2024) ‘Green Macro-Financial Governance in the European Monetary Architecture. Assessing the Capacity to Finance the Net-Zero Transition’, Competition and Change, online first, doi: 10.1177/10245294241275103.

Murau, Steffen, Armin Haas, and Andrei Guter-Sandu (2024) ‘Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 56 (2), pp. 382-401, doi: 10.1177/0308518X231197296.

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.

Laudage, Gregor, Armin Haas, Andrei Guter-Sandu, and Steffen Murau (2024) ‘State Finance Beyond the Core Budget. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Germany’s Fiscal Ecosystem‘, OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 1-EN, July 2024, Berlin: Global Climate Forum.