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28 Sep 2018

National Champions are Hurting the Banking Union

Jan Pieter Krahnen: Financial institutions doing business in Europe would be better for the banking union and financial stability than nationally oriented banks

14 Sep 2018

Oops!... We Do It Again. Attack on the Banking Union in the German Constitutional Court

Tobias Tröger: Even ardent Europeans may learn a (limited) lesson as the court is willing to take a deeper look into the machine room of central banks' operations

11 Sep 2018

Macroeconomic Effects of the Wave of Immigration

Alexander Ludwig on the demonstrations in Chemnitz from an academic perspective

Andreas Hackethal
27 Aug 2018

Pension: More Insight Instead of Promises

Andreas Hackethal: Better than a pension guarantee would be to finally allow citizens more insights

24 Aug 2018

A Pension Guarantee Until 2040 Is at the Expense of the Younger Ones

Alexander Ludwig: Financing a pension guarantee only possible through higher taxes that would unfairly burden younger workers

23 Aug 2018

TARGET Balances Are no Risk Factor by Themselves

Jan Pieter Krahnen: Target imbalances should not be limited, but rather call for an institutional reform of the Eurozone

21 Jun 2018

Digital Tax: The Neglected Value of the Data

Bernd Skiera: Algorithms are of little value without data. Taking these more into account could make the taxation of digital companies fairer

13 Jun 2018

Discriminating Inflation

Alfons Weichenrieder and Eren Gürer: Price increases tend to burden low-income earners more

08 Jun 2018

Life Insurance: Rising Interest Rates can Lead to Challenges

Helmut Gründl: In the short term, a strong and rapid increase of interest rates can be problematic for insurance companies

21 Mar 2018

Governing Cryptocurrencies through Forward Guidance

Matthias Goldmann and Grygoriy Pustovit: Adopting a ‘sandbox approach’ for regulators could be a beginning

08 Mar 2018

Think Twice Before Regulating Bitcoins

Jan Pieter Krahnen: Regulation of cryptocurrencies may have unintended effects

19 Feb 2018

Pensions in the German Coalition Agreement

Alexander Ludwig: An expert commission makes sense – but why expert opinion only after 2025 and clientele policy before?

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