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IMFS professors evaluate government bond purchases in the new PEPP program (FAZ)

The European Central Bank (ECB) plans to buy more than a third of government bonds of a euro area country within its new program launched in the…

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Volker Wieland: "A sovereign debt crisis on top would be disastrous" (Börse.ARD.de)

According to Prof. Volker Wieland, the best approach in the corona crisis is to make use of the existing institutions. In an interview with…

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Volker Wieland warns against premature stimulus program due to coronavirus (Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung", T-online-News)

According to Prof. Volker Wieland, at the moment there is no need to agree on a stimulus package in order to mitigate the economic effects due to the…

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"The ECB and Its Watchers" conference re-scheduled to May 19

Due to the spread of the coronavirus, the ECB has also restricted travel until April 20, 2020 and postponed conferences. Therefore, we have decided to…

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Volker Wieland speaks out against softening the debt brake (FAZ, Handelsblatt)

In a statement for the budget committee of the German Bundestag, Prof. Volker Wieland has taken a stand against softening or eliminating the so-called…

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ECB integrates the "The ECB and Its Watchers" conference into listening events regarding strategic review

The European Central Bank (ECB) will integrate the IMFS conference "The ECB and Its Watchers" into the series of listening events where the central…

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EBI Global Annual Conference on Banking Regulation is focused on Transparency and Sustainable Finance

On February 20 and 21, the IMFS jointly organizes the EBI Global Annual Conference on Banking Regulation together with the European Banking Institute…

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Volker Wieland questions the monetary policy stance of the ECB (Handelsblatt)

According to Prof. Volker Wieland, the European Central Bank (ECB) should start raising interest rates as soon as possible but only proceed in small…

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Volker Wieland is worried about upheavals in the car sector due to coronavirus (Tagesspiegel, Reuters)

According to Prof. Volker Wieland, the crisis in China caused by the coronavirus is going to be a stress test for the German car sector, which is very…

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Volker Wieland recommends ECB to be more transparent (Reuters, Sparkassenzeitung)

According to Prof. Volker Wieland, the European Central Bank (ECB) should publish the voting results of the Governing Council's monetary policy…

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