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# Publications

One market, two monies: the European Union and the United Kingdom

The issue Access to the single market is one of the core benefits of the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union. A vote to leave the EU would trigger difficult negotiations on continued access to that market. ...

28th January 2016 by Guntram Wolff 3107 views

# Blog

Getting eurozone deposit insurance right promises benefits

This opinion piece was originally published in in The Banker, Caixin, Caixin in Chinese, Die Zeit, Finance, El Economista, and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. The German version is available on this blog. The European Co...

7th January 2016 by Guntram Wolff 2434 views

# Blog

Europäische Einlagensicherung: Deutschland würde profitieren

Wer ernsthaft die Bankenunion will, kommt um die EU-weite Sicherung der Sparguthaben nicht herum. Es braucht Obergrenzen, wie viele Staatsanleihen Banken halten sollen. This article was originally published in Die Zeit, ...

25th November 2015 by Guntram Wolff 2730 views

# Blog

What options for European deposit insurance?

The aim of this blog post is to clarify different options of how to organize European deposit insurance without yet settling on the best option. We aim to explain and to highlight what different options can and cannot ac...

9th October 2015 by Guntram Wolff 3575 views

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# Publications

The Vulnerability of Europe’s Small and Medium-Sized Banks

We study the vulnerability of 130 banks directly supervised by the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism. Illustrative stress tests using banks’ balance sheet data reveal that significant stress prevails i...

16th July 2015 by Guntram Wolff 3025 views

# Blog

Euro area governance: an assessment of the “five presidents” report

the positive and missing or negative elements: European Commission President Juncker has published the long-awaited report prepared in collaboration with the presidents of the European Council, the Eurogroup, the Europea...

25th June 2015 by Guntram Wolff 2611 views

# Blog

The Greek banking system: a tragedy in the making?

As the ECB has decided to discontinue allowing Greek government bonds to be used as collateral in normal ECB refinancing operations, attention is fully back on the Greek banking system.[ref]The European Central Bank’s Go...

6th February 2015 by Guntram Wolff 3003 views

# Blog

European banking union and financial integration

At a famous summit in June 2012, the European leaders announced that they intend to “break the vicious circle” between banks and sovereigns. This decision started a new step in European integration. Arguably, the creatio...

19th December 2014 by Guntram Wolff 2517 views

# Interviews

Eurozone banks’ distress

Guntram B. Wolff gave a Seminar at wiiw on ‘Eurozone banks’ distress: lessons from the United States and Japan’. After the seminar he gave wiiw scientific director Michael Landesmann and interview....

28th October 2014 by Guntram Wolff 8133 views

# Publications

Ein direktes Rekapitalisierungsinstrument für Banken ist sinnvoll

This is my testimony for the Bundestag’s budget committee of October 2014. It is available here (pdf).....

6th October 2014 by Guntram Wolff 2053 views