M.A. Marla Schiefeling
Freie Universität Berlin
Promotionskolleg EQUALFIN
PhD Candidate
Doktorandin
Room 402
14195 Berlin
Education
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Since 02/2025 |
PhD Candidate, EQUALFIN |
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10/2021 – 07/2023
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Double Degree “Economic Policies in the Age of Globalisation”
Master degree in “International Economics“ at Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin Master degree in “Analyse et Politique Economiques” at Sorbonne Paris Nord Thesis : “Bilateral Swap Lines to the Periphery – Growth and Dependence in the Light of Balance-of-Payment Constraints and Financial Subordination” |
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10/2017 – 01/2021 |
Bachelors’ Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Maastricht Thesis: “Quantitative Easing and the Illusion of Prosperity – Buying Time for Democratic Capitalism”
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Work Experience
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Since 12/2024 |
Junior Economist at the ZOE Institute for future-fit Economies |
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07/2023 – 12/2024 |
Macroeconomic Policy Trainee and Research Assistant at the ZOE Institute for future-fit Economies |
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04/2023 – 07/2023 |
Student Assistant for the master level course “Economic Policy and the Role of the Trade Unions” at Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin |
Research Project:
In her research Marla focuses on international monetary asymmetries as drivers of macroeconomic dynamics. Key themes in her project include the global currency hierarchy, financial instability, balance of payments constraints, and the resulting core-periphery dynamics. By integrating these aspects of the global economy into different macroeconomic modelling approaches, such as balance-of-payment constrained growth models and (environmental) stock-flow-consistent models, she aims to improve the understanding of repercussions between the financial and real sphere of the economy. Special attention will be paid to the challenges posed by global decarbonization as one of the most pressing and uniquely international issues of the moment. To this ongoing debate her research aims to contribute through the evaluation of (unilateral) climate policies within the unequal world that they are embedded in, and to unravel possible spill-overs, non-linearities and paradoxes that arise from the interaction of interdependent world regions. Finally, these preceding steps are expected to enable a more nuanced analysis of the potential of international monetary cooperation in supporting a global green transition.
Schiefeling, M. (2020). Lakatos and the assumption of the neutrality of money in neoclassical economics. The Maastricht Journal of Liberal Arts, 12, 42-51.