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# Blog

The European Commission should drop its ill-designed idea of a finance minister

This opinion piece was published on Politico, La Republicca, Die Zeit, Kathimerini, and others. As always, the respective titles in the newspapers were NOT drafted by me. European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker...
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4th December 2017 by Guntram Wolff 7172 views Share:
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German wages, the Phillips curve and migration in the euro area

This post studies why wages in Germany have not borne strong increases despite a relatively strong labour market. I list four reasons why announcing the death of the Phillips curve – the negative relationship between une...
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29th November 2017 by Guntram Wolff 3611 views Share:
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What has driven the votes for Germany’s right-wing Alternative für Deutschland?

The AfD vote in East Germany was consistently stronger than in the West, even after controlling for income, age, education, religion and the overall rural nature of the new Bundesländer. This was first published on Brueg...
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6th October 2017 by Guntram Wolff 4019 views Share:
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A Jamaican Germany could be good for Europe

A shortened version of this opinion piece has been published by the Financial Times. Germany has voted – and the result has been a shock to Germans and to Europe. The AfD – an extremely right wing, and in part neo-nazi, ...
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29th September 2017 by Guntram Wolff 2212 views Share:
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How has banking union changed mergers and acquistions?

This piece was published by Bruegel. The aim of the banking union was to break the toxic link between banks and states. One way of achieving this is by increasing cross border banking through mergers and acquisitions. Th...
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13th September 2017 by Guntram Wolff 2127 views Share:
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It is official – Brexit is boring

My latest piece in the Guardian. It is official: Brexit is boring – at least on the continent. As the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, delivered his “state of the union” address on Wednesday, setting t...
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13th September 2017 by Guntram Wolff 2153 views Share:
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Europe must seize this moment of opportunity

This opinion piece was published on Spiegel Online, Le Monde, El Economista and Bruegel. After years of despondency, there is new and positive momentum in Europe. With the French electing Emmanuel Macron and a broad reco...
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14th August 2017 by Guntram Wolff 2060 views Share:
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G20 climate commitments need to be turned into action

Members can still cooperate on sustainable energy technologies despite US bowing out. China’s approach to the “One-Belt-One-Road” investments is a crucial climate policy focus. This opinion post was als...
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1st August 2017 by Guntram Wolff 3180 views Share:
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Eurozone or EU budget? Confronting a complex political question

This week’s European Commission reflection paper is the latest document to ponder a distinction between EU and euro-area budgets. But do we need to split the two, and what would each budget be used for? In this post, I p...
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29th June 2017 by Guntram Wolff 3249 views Share:
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Auf die Frauen kommt es an

My op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Published in English here in various other newspapers.   Die G20 hat kürzlich ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf Afrika gerichtet. Die Finanzminister der G20 Länder haben eine „Compact with Afr...
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4th June 2017 by Guntram Wolff 29206 views Share:
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