# podcast

How to reform and fortify the global financial system

In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’ Guntram Wolff is joined by Bruegel’s mercator senior fellow Jean Pisani-Ferry, and by Tharman Shanmugaratnam, chair of the G20 Eminent Persons Group. A report from the E...

23rd October 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1726 views

# Blog

Brazil can learn from Spain: don’t delay adjustment

This post first appeared in the FT’s beyond brics blog. Brazil’s economy and politics have long been playing with fire. Now the rest of the world risks getting burnt by waiting for the crisis to be addressed domest...

10th May 2016 by Guntram Wolff 2223 views

# Blog

Griechenland: Die Lehren für Europa

This piece was first published on Die Zeit on August 4 2015. It was also published on Linkiesta, and several other newspapers. The English version is published on Bruegel. Die schlimmste Hängepartie ist vorläufig ...

10th August 2015 by Guntram Wolff 2148 views

# Blog

Olivier Blanchard fails to recognise two major IMF mistakes in Greece

– the IMF needs to draw the right conclusions This blog draws two lessons from the failed Greek programme. Olivier Blanchard is right that the fiscal adjustment of the last 5 years was unavoidable. An earlie...

14th July 2015 by Guntram Wolff 3034 views

# Interviews

«Alexis Tsipras doit être conscient de ce qu’il peut ou non demander»

3rd February 2015 by Guntram Wolff 16072 views

# Blog

Greece and the euro area need a deal within days, not months

International press informs us that the Greek government believes it has weeks or perhaps months to negotiate a new deal with its creditors. The basic idea of the new Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is that Greec...

2nd February 2015 by Guntram Wolff 2527 views

# Blog

Europe’s fiscal wormhole

The International Monetary Fund now estimates a 30% risk of deflation in the eurozone, and growth figures within the monetary union continue to disappoint. But policymakers seem trapped in a cat’s cradle of economic, pol...

24th October 2014 by Guntram Wolff 2552 views

# Interviews

IMF, World Bank meetings come during Europe’s economic slowdown

CCTV America business correspondent Owen Fairclough is following the IMF and World Bank meetings from the European side. He interviewed Bruegel Think Tank Director Guntram Wolff for insight on the meetings....

6th October 2014 by Guntram Wolff 1996 views

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# Publications

The long haul: managing exit from financial assistance

Countries can make a clean exit from financial assistance, or enter a new programme or a precautionary programme, depending on the sustainability of their public debt and their vulnerability to shocks. Ireland mad...

20th February 2014 by Guntram Wolff 2329 views

# Interviews

An evaluation of the Troika’s programmes in the euro area

On Friday April 19th 2013, Bruegel fellows Jean Pisani-Ferry, André Sapir and Guntram Wolff presented a study evaluating the Troika’s recent programmes in the euro area. The presentation took place at the Peterson ...

22nd April 2013 by Guntram Wolff 2516 views