Simon Schairer

My research areas include questions of monetary theory, the political economy of money, debt and the financial system, monetary policy, the shadow banking system and offshore finance as well as sustainable finance. My analytical framework is based on theories of post-Keynesian economics, critical macro-finance, neo-Marxist political economy and post-structuralism.

In my current work for the research project “SuFi: Climate change and global finance at the crossroads”, I am investigating the role of private financial actors in financing the sustainable transformation towards a climate-friendly economy (net-zero CO2 emissions).

10/2021 – 02/202
German Jordanian University (ERASMUS), Amman, Jordan, Social Work with Migration and Refugees Professional Diploma

10/2018 – 03/2022
University of Kassel, Germany, International Center for Decent Work and Development (ICDD), M.A. Global Political Economy and Development (GPA: 1.2) 

10/2014 – 03/2018
University of Erfurt, Germany, Faculty of State Sciences, B.A. International Relations (GPA: 1.3)

Cairo University, Exchange Student at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Oriental Studies Research Center

04/2023 – 08/2023
Co-teaching of the course “The Political Economy of Money and Finance” with Dr. Jan Fichtner, University Duisburg/Essen

04/2020 – 07/2020
04/2021 – 07/2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Dr. Karatepe at the ICDD, University of Kassel, Germany, in “International Economics”

10/2019 – 03/2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. Scherrer at the chair of Globalisation and Politics, Universität Kassel, Germany, in “Governance of the World Market”

08/2016 – 03/2018
Research and Teaching Assistant for Prof. Dr. Kessler at the chair of International Relations, University of Erfurt, Germany, content-related preparation and teaching of the tutorial “International Relations I” and “International Relations II”

Financial system, financial crises, sustainable finance, banking, financial market regulation, monetary policy, central banks, sovereign debt, monetary theory

International Centre for Sustainable and Just Transformation [tra:ce]at Witten/Herdecke University

ERASMUS+ scholarship recipient (GJU Amman, Jordan)

Wafedin scholarship recipient (Cairo University)

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