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monetary policy

# Blog, Interviews

Why Europe needs a change of mind-set to fend off the risks of recession

Versions of this opinion piece are appearing in Handelsblatt, Le Monde, El Pais, Kathimerini, Rzeczpospolita, Helsinki Sanomat, Caixin, Nikkei Veritas and others.   Recession! This is the new worry in Europe and the...
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2nd September 2019 by Guntram Wolff 6722 views Share:
# Blog

Eurozone QE and bank profitability: Why it is too early to taper

This opinion piece was published in El Economista, Finance, Hospodárské Noviny, and Tagesspiegel. The quantitative easing (QE) programs that started in the second quarter of 2015 remain controversial, especially in Germa...
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8th December 2016 by Guntram Wolff 2207 views Share:
# Blog

Draghi enteignet die Sparer nicht

This text was published in Manager Magazin. Debatte über die EZB ja – aber bitte sachlich  Die EZB reagiert mit ihrer Geldpolitik nur auf die schwache wirtschaftliche Lage. Sie ist nicht dafür zuständig, für hohe R...
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28th September 2016 by Guntram Wolff 3077 views Share:
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# Publications

What are the prerequisites for a euro-area fiscal capacity?

This paper is a background note for a presentation at the Informal ECOFIN meeting of EU finance ministers and central bank governors in Bratislava on September 9, 2016. policy contribution, summary sent to ministers, spe...
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12th September 2016 by Guntram Wolff 2523 views Share:
# Blog

Mere criticism of the ECB is no solution

This piece was first published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in a shortened version. It is also published in various national newspapers, including Le Monde.   The eurozone remains in a deep, largely...
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10th April 2016 by Guntram Wolff 2750 views Share:
# Blog

Central banks: from omnipotence to impotence?

Like the price of financial assets, the market assessment of the capacity of central banks to achieve their price stability objective fluctuates between omnipotence and impotence. We do not agree with this binary view of...
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2nd March 2016 by Guntram Wolff 3007 views Share:
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# Publications

Which fiscal union for the euro area?

The construction of the euro area left aside the question of a fiscal union, but the crisis re-opened the debate. Read the full paper here. The paper was first published for the Conseil d’analyse économique in Fren...
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18th February 2016 by Guntram Wolff 2910 views Share:
# Blog

Have central banks lost their ability to control inflation?

The potential effects of global integration on inflation dynamics, and whether this could affect the ability of central banks to fulfil their mandates. This post was first published on Bruegel.   After soaring in th...
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2nd December 2015 by Guntram Wolff 2740 views Share:
# Blog

The ECB and politics in an era of low interest rates

This op-ed was originally published in the Handelsblatt, Nikkei Veritas and Nikkei Asian Review and Linkiesta. The ECB is often criticised for its low interest rate policy – especially in Germany, where this is fel...
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26th November 2015 by Guntram Wolff 2282 views Share:
# Publications

Is globalisation reducing the ability of central banks to control inflation?

After soaring in the 1970s, inflation in Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development countries stabilised, coming down from 9 percent on average in the early 1980s to about 2 percent in the years before the cris...
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13th November 2015 by Guntram Wolff 2213 views Share:
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