GCF Working Papers
January 31, 2025
OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 4: Rethinking Currency Internationalisation. Rethinking Currency Internationalisation. Offshore Money Creation and the EU’s Monetary Governance
Jens van't Klooster and Steffen Murau
September 11, 2024
OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 3: Schrödinger’s Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agency. The Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Limits to Incremental Fiscal Integration in Europe
Friederike Reimer, Andrei Guter-Sandu, Armin Haas and Steffen Murau
August 18, 2024
OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 2: The Mefo Operation. A Macro-Financial Analysis of Camouflaged Sovereign Borrowing through Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies, 1933-1945
Armin Haas, Friederike Reimer, Andrei Guter-Sandu and Steffen Murau
August 12, 2024
OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 1: State Finance Beyond the Core Budget. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Germany’s Fiscal Ecosystem
Gregor Laudage, Armin Haas, Andrei Guter-Sandu and Steffen Murau
February 2, 2023
New GCF study on climate change impacts on Pari island (Indonesia)
(German version below) In a new study, scientists from the GCF examine the current and future effects of anthropogenic global warming on the Indonesian island of Pari. The focus is on sea level rise as this is responsible for much of the climate change impacts on low-lying coral reef islands as Pari. In particular, the […]
August 31, 2022
New working paper: Klaus Hasselmann and Economics
Klaus Hasselmann and Economics Klaus Hasselmann has earned the 2021 Nobel prize in physics for his breakthroughs in analysing the climate system as a complex physical system. Since decades, as a leading climate scientist he is aware of the need for creative cooperation between climate scientists and researchers from other fields, especially economics. To facilitate […]
April 15, 2021
New GCF Working Paper (02/21): The Decision Theatre Triangle for societal challenges
The Decision Theatre Triangle for societal challenges To support discussions about the challenge of a sustainable mobility transition between researchers and stakeholders, such as practice experts, decision makers, and citizens, we have developed and tested an agent-based model and a mobile Decision Theatre set-up. Due to the combination of three elements: a) mathematical modelling and […]
February 4, 2021
New working paper: The European Green Deal, More than climate neutrality
The European Green Deal – More than climate neutrality The European Green Deal aims at climate neutrality of Europe by 2050, implying a significant acceleration of emission reductions. To gain the necessary support, at the same time it needs to reduce regional and social inequalities in Europe. We propose objectives in terms of jobs, growth, […]
March 11, 2020
New GCF Working Paper (01/20): ABOUT THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL
Acess the full Working Paper on the European Green Deal here With the personnel change at the top of both the European Commission and the European Central Bank, a Green Deal for Europe has been put on the agenda. To be politically feasible and socially acceptable, the European Green Deal needs to reduce not only […]
February 18, 2019
Updated Version of GCF Working Paper “Framing 1.5°C” on SSRN
[by S. Wolf, C. Jaeger, J. Mielke, F. Schuetze, R. Rosen] || An updated version of GCF Working Paper 2 / 2017 “Framing 1.5°C – Turning an investment challenge into a green growth opportunity” that reflects the current IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C is now published on SSRN under: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3324509