The unemployment rate is sinking, prices are rising: The time is ripe for the first hike in interest rates after nine years. Janet Yellen, Chair of…
This Wednesday and Thursday the members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) get together discussing a rise in interest rate. Fed Chair Janet…
In an opinion piece in the magazine "Positionen" of the association of the German insurers GDV, Prof. Volker Wieland explains how the eurozone has to…
Recognizing its contribution as driving force for the political debate in Germany, the Small and Medium-Sized Business Association of the CDU and CSU…
This blog post focuses on the new edition of "Wirtschaftsdienst -Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik", which is dedicated to the discussion of the…
In the new ranking of Germany's top economists of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" Volker Wieland is on position 25.
After the meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi has left the door to further Quantitative Easing open.…
Even six years after the end of the recession in the United States the Federal Reserve has not yet started the process of normalization. In his new…
Since the Greek debt crisis has sparked a debate about the meaning of European unity, Deutsche Welle TV explores how the eurozone could look like in…
According to "Handelsblatt" the central banks in Spain and Ireland have rated banks' collaterals wrongly. Professor Helmut Siekmann is critical of…
