Leading German economists back Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann''s criticism regarding the European Central Bank moving closer to large-scale sovereign-bond…
At the Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Professor Volker Wieland comments on the monetary policy of the European Central Bank and the potential…
The problems in the Euro area are far from being solved. In an interview with the youth magazine "Schekker" Prof. Helmut Siekmann explains the challenges in the…
In an opinion piece in the German weekly "Die Zeit" four members of the Council of Economic Experts including Volker Wieland are presenting the key phrases of…
On November 12, the Council of Economic Experts including Volker Wieland presented its Annual Report, which is entitled "More confidence in market processes".
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On November 12, Volker Wieland and his colleagues from the Council of Economic Experts are presenting the Annual Economic Report to Chancellor Angela Merkel. The…
Recently, newspaper articles about the minutes of the European Central Bank before the Cyprus bailout have made clear again how controversial the short-term loans…
Shadow banking is defined as credit intermediation outside the conventional banking system. The global financial crisis revealed that shadow banking can put the…
On October 14, the OMT program is on the agenda of the European Court of Justice as the German Constitutional Court had referred the case onward in February.
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On October 14, the OMT program is on the agenda of the the European Court of Justice as the German Constitutional Court had referred the case onward in February.
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During a two-day conference of the IMFS, legal experts from Turkey and Germany discussed current aspects of financial stability in comparison between Germany and…
During a two-day conference of the IMFS, legal experts from Turkey and Germany discuss current aspects of financial stability in comparison between Germany and…
The German weekly "Wirtschaftswoche" takes a look at the "hot air about the deflationary spiral", citing from the IMFS Working Paper by Maik Wolters and Volker…
Since the release of the new version 2.0 in February, the Macroeconomic Model Data Base (MMB) has increased the number of registered users by 40 per cent.
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In an interview with the magazine "Wi" of the German-Polish Chamber of Industry and Commerce Volker Wieland talks about the new European banking supervision, the…
The "Frankfurter Neue Presse" gives an overview about professors from Goethe University who are sought-after as economic and political advisors in Germany and at…
Many people argue that the failure to regulate complex financial instruments, especially derivatives, contributed significantly to the global financial crisis of…
Prof. Michael Droege, specialist for constitutional law, explains in the magazine "Fachbuch Journal" why the commentary on the European monetary union, edited by…
Minimum wage, lowering the retirement age from 67 to 63, higher pensions for mothers - the grand coalition has come up with many expensive projects since the…
"Spiegel Online" cites a study of the website Immobilienscout24 according to which medium sized cities in Germany rather face a housing bubble than the bigger…
Before taking up its oversight task about the 128 biggest banks in the euro-area, the European Central Bank (ECB) is conducting an unprecented health check on the…
The banking union provides for new rules. The determining factors for all financial market participants are changing as macro-prudential policy and monetary policy…
"Dark Clouds Are Gathering Over the Housing Market", the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes on the first page of its business section. The paper refers to a…
At the beginning of June the European Central Bank announced a cut in interest rates and a package of new measures. In an interview with "Spiegel Online" Volker…
The new report gives an overview about the main fields of research, activities and staff of the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) between 2009…
After the meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank at the beginning of June, President Mario Draghi not only announced a cut in interest rates…
In his blog entry on "Markt-Ruf" by the Market Economy Foundation (Stiftung Marktwirtschaft) Prof. Volker Wieland describes the new measures the European Central…
On Monday, June 23, Prof. Vikrant Vig, new Chair of Financial Economics at the IMFS, gives a talk on "The Limits of Model-Based Regulation", investigating how…
The European Central Bank cut its key financing rate to 0.15% and also reduced the rate on its deposit facility to -0.10%, the first negative rate move by a major…
Before the next meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) at the beginning of June many ECB watchers expect a whole package of measures.
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The democratic constitutional state gives the central bank a carte blanche in the light of its own inability to deal with technocratic arbitrariness, professor…
In an interview with the German business paper "Handelsblatt" Volker Wieland, member of the German Council of Economic Experts, has warned about an active exchange…
What are the consequences of a cut in interest rates? How effectively can the economy be boosted applying certain measures? These questions can be answered more…
The second part of the conference focused on current challenges for the conduct of monetary policy in the euro area.
The presentation of John B. Taylor, Stanford…
The second part of the conference focused on current challenges for the conduct of monetary policy in the euro area.
The presentation of Lars E.O. Svensson of…
The second part of the conference focused on the challenges for the conduct of monetary policy in the euro area.
Lucrezia Reichlin's presentation on the "Monetary…
The first part of the conference "The ECB and Its Watchers" 2014 focused on the challenges on central bank communication.
The presentation of Charles Goodhart,…
On March, 12, 2014 the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) and the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) organize the conference "The ECB and Its…
In the series "Top Scientists" the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is presenting outstanding scientists. Their research might change our view of the world, the…
Is the "Outright Monetary Transactions" or OMT program contrary to European law? On February 7, 2014 Germany's Constitutional Court referred the case onward to the…
In an interview with “Euro am Sonntag” Volker Wieland talked about negative interest rates as in Denmark and the lessons for the European Central Bank.
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The German business paper is asking whether the European Central Bank takes part in the troika without a formal decision of the ECB council referring to a…
