# Blog

Recent euro-area house price increases are dissimilar to earlier housing booms

Current housing markets relative to those pre-crisis seem to be far less driven by mortgage credit, and the size of the construction sector has not increased. This is possibly good news for financial stability because an...

19th February 2020 by Zsolt Darvas, Marta Domínguez-Jímenez, Guntram Wolff 76 views

# Blog, Interviews

Europe may be the world’s AI referee, but referees don’t win

The EU needs to invest in homegrown technology. This opinion piece was originally published in Politico. The European Commission’s Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager has been tasked with developing a European st...

19th February 2020 by Guntram Wolff 71 views

# podcast

The EU’s plan to catch up on artificial intelligence

While the US and China have been setting the pace when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, the European Union seems to be lagging behind. What are the Commission’s plans to finally catch up? Will AI increase the g...

16th February 2020 by Guntram Wolff 61 views

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# Publications

From climate change to cyber-attacks: incipient financial-stability risks for the euro area

The European Central Bank’s November 2019 Financial Stability Review highlighted the risks to growth in an environment of global uncertainty. On the whole, the ECB report is comprehensive and covers the main risks to eur...

7th February 2020 by ZSOLT DARVAS, MARTA DOMÍNGUEZ-JIMÉNEZ AND GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 87 views

# podcast

The science of Brexit

Michael Leigh, Maria Demertzis and I discuss the future of EU-UK relations. Our special focus on future collaboration in research and development exemplifies how tricky it will be to reach an agreement....

30th January 2020 by Guntram Wolff 116 views

# Blog, Interviews

Europe’s banking union must be cyberproofed

This opinion piece was published in Politico Nikkei Veritas, Corriere della Sera and Kathimerini. When European leaders, back in 2012, embarked on an ambitious plan to create a truly pan-continental financial system, the...

30th January 2020 by Guntram Wolff 546 views

# podcast

AI in Europe: a conversation with Google’s CEO

This week, I talked to Google and Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. We focused on AI, why and how it should be regulated and on whether we should worry about big companies like google. And many other things: listen in...

23rd January 2020 by Guntram Wolff 212 views

# Interviews

Looking ahead at 2020 on BBC

with Ragu Rajan and Meredith Crowley: Our interview for BBC World’s “In the Balance” is here. Meanwhile an extensive interview for key Korean newspaper Chosun here...

27th December 2019 by Guntram Wolff 213 views

# podcast

Interviewing Magrethe Vestager on how competition policy helps “small” people, AI and the role of data and how industrial policy should evolve

Will AI exacerbate the gap between big companies and small ones? Do ordinary Europeans gain anything from having European tech giants? This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff went to the Berlaymont to interview Mar...

19th December 2019 by Guntram Wolff 226 views

# podcast

Appellate body politics

This week, the WTO’s Appellate Body, the dispute settlement body, became inoperational: it no longer has the necessary number of judges to render verdicts. What does this mean for international trade and multilater...

12th December 2019 by Guntram Wolff 303 views