On June 29, 2016, Prof. Dr. Peter M. Huber, Federal Constitutional Court, will give a lecture on the financial crisis in the jurisdiction of the…
Prof. Volker Wieland has illustrated the consequences of the elimination of the 500-euro banknote for holding currency. Due to the smaller…
In an opinion piece in the weekly newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", Volker Wieland and his colleagues from the Kronberger Kreis explain why…
In view of the interest rates banks have to pay the European Central Bank (ECB) for their deposits, Commerzbank is considering storing excess deposits…
In view of the low-interest environment and the penalty interest for banks parking liquidity at the ECB more and more municipalities are confronted…
Due to the financial crisis, many new regulations for the capital market have been proposed. However, European and national capital market laws are…
In some European countries like Sweden cash-free payment is gaining more and more ground. In an interview with "VdK-Zeitung" Helmut Siekmann explains…
For John B. Taylor of Stanford University and Volker Wieland, research on the real equilibrium interest rate is not yet useful for monetary policy…
According to Volker Wieland, the monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) is not appropriate for Germany. Neither does he consider it…
The political and economic crisis in Greece, the debate on how to safeguard the future of the eurozone, and the massive quantitative easing by the…