# Blog

Be bold now: coronavirus, the Eurogroup and fiscal safety nets

This blog post sketches two scenarios: one in which countries provide a large fiscal safety net to companies and another in which they do not. Both lead to similar debt-to-GDP ratios in 2021, but the safety net leads to ...

17th March 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1193 views

# Blog, Interviews

A letter to Santa, the G7

This opinion piece was originally published in El País. Since the coronavirus outbreak became a pandemic, markets have plummeted. Global risk aversion has spiked, safe assets have becoming hugely expensive and the dollar...

17th March 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1047 views

# Publications

An effective economic response to the Coronavirus in Europe

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major shock to the global and European economy. Most European countries need to take bold quarantine and lock-down measures, as has been done in Italy, to prevent an explosion of the ep...

12th March 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1218 views

# podcast

Coronavirus: the economic prognosis

The coronavirus is going to hit the global economy hard, but how hard? What can policymakers plan for the months ahead? Nicholas Barrett asks Guntram Wolff and Maria Demertzis about economic symptoms and treatments. &nbs...

10th March 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1031 views

# podcast

Is the EU a superpower?

As China and the US battle for global supremacy, the EU seems to remain in the shadows. But what if the EU had been shaping the world economy all along without anybody noticing? Could its soft power be strong enough to s...

3rd March 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1126 views

# Blog

As the Coronavirus spreads, can the EU afford to close its borders?

In 2018, 320 million trips were made between EU countries and almost 2 million people crossed Schengen borders to go to work. Stopping them would cause serious economic disruption. The Coronavirus crisis has triggered in...

27th February 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1086 views

# podcast

Can the European Green Deal kill the single market?

The European Green Deal is one of the landmarks of Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission. But, without an ambitious investment behind it, what could be its potential implications for the EU? Could it go as far as to th...

27th February 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1152 views

# Interviews

Euronews interview on Artificial Intelligence

from Wednesday, 19 February...

27th February 2020 by Guntram Wolff 969 views

# 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 Guntram Wolff 1597 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 1450 views