# Blog

Trägt Deutschland eine Mitschuld an Italiens Krise?

Dieser Text wurde zuerst von der Zeit veröffentlicht. “Italien hat mal wieder eine Krise – aber mit uns hat das Ganze nichts zu tun”: So lautet der fast einstimmige Tenor vieler Diskussionen zu den dramatisch...

5th June 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1611 views

# Blog

Germany’s Government Still Has an Allergy to Investing

The new coalition budget looks a lot like the old German coalition budget. My Bloomberg View column is here....

14th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1590 views

# Blog

Germany’s export-oriented economic model is caught in a US-Chinese squeeze

The new Merkel government has to reduce the dependencies on exports by stimulating domestic growth forces in Germany and Europe. At the same time, Berlin should push for a more ambitious national and European innovation ...

30th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1722 views

# podcast

What the German coalition agreement means for Europe

The final document on the German coalition agreement will have significant consequences for the European Union and the Eurozone. Bruegel director Guntram Wolff gives his assessment of the agreement’s key features i...

7th February 2018 by Guntram Wolff 5087 views

# Interviews

My Bloomberg interview on prospects of German coalition

19th January 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1969 views

Bruegel’s Wolff: German current account surplus is ‘highly unusual’ from CNBC.

# Interviews

Bruegel’s Wolff: German current account surplus is ‘highly unusual’

18th January 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1774 views

# Blog

A German crisis?

This opinion piece was published in Caixin and Caixin(English). Jamaica has failed: the negotiations to form a new government in Germany by the so-called “Jamaica” partners, named after the colours of the parties that a...

11th December 2017 by Guntram Wolff 1466 views

# Blog

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...

29th November 2017 by Guntram Wolff 3579 views

# Interviews

Interview in Il Sole24 on breakdown of Jamaica negotiation (in Italian)

My interview is here. “L’impasse nella formazione governativa in Germania potrebbe portare a una paralisi in campo europeo e a congelare (blow back) le riforme strutturali proposte dal presidente francese Emmanuel Macr...

22nd November 2017 by Guntram Wolff 1472 views

# Blog

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...

6th October 2017 by Guntram Wolff 3985 views