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In view of the current refugee surge to Europe IMFS researcher Robert Beyer has analyzed during a research stay at the International Monetary Fund…

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The economic situation in Germany is good, Volker Wieland said in an interview with "Deutschlandfunk". However, reforms like the introduction of the…

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According to Helmut Siekmann it may be judged differently whether restrictions on cash payments are legally permissible. In any case, such measures do…

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According to Volker Wieland, the new Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive, known as BRRD rules, allow a scope of discretion that is too broad.…

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Applying simple policy rules to the interest rate decisions of the ECB since 2013, Tilman Bletzinger and Volker Wieland find out that these rules call…

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Following the principle that liability and control must go hand in hand, Volker Wieland and his co-authors Lars Feld, Christoph Schmidt and Isabel…

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The Federal Constitutional Court should take the opportunity to send a clear signal to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The ECJ has kept the…

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The Federal Constitutional Court is taking up the oral hearing regarding the controversial OMT program of the European Central Bank (ECB). Volker…

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In the discussion regarding cash payments, the complete elimination of cash without any alternative would hardly be compatible with German Basic Law,…

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In the debate about restricting cash payments in Germany, for Volker Wieland there are no arguments in favor of doing this. Cash is a very useful tool…

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