SAFE Finance Blog

Jan Krahnen: Italy's thoughts on new bonds are a cause for concern for the euro area. However, in the end, the country would do itself harm

A pan-European pension product and new rules for investment funds, reforms in the Banking Union and guidelines on sustainable finance: a selection of regulatory developments from this month

Roland Broemel: the emergence of digital securities raises many technical, civil law and regulatory issues

Oliver Hinz criticizes the German Artificial Intelligence initiative: "Creating high expectations without fulfilling them, is certainly not a good plan"

In a new SAFE White Paper, Martin R. Götz, Tobias H. Tröger, and Mark Wahrenburg analyze the supervisory challenges ahead for banking regulation in Europe

Target debate: Jan Krahnen responds to Clemens Fuest and Hans-Werner Sinn: We should stop extrapolating solvable problems into inevitable disasters.

Target debate: Clemens Fuest and Hans-Werner Sinn respond to Jan Krahnen's criticism. A guest commentary

The target balances generate discussions in the public and among economists who come to very different results in their analyses. An overview of the most important arguments

Alexander Ludwig: The discussion about lower delayed retirement credits in the German public pension system misses the point. Instead, it would be more important to increase both, delayed retirement credits and early retirement penalties, and to link them to the longer life expectancy of the working population

Alexander Ludwig: Hubertus Heil's proposal for a tax-financed basic pension would solve some problems. Nevertheless, the concept would be expensive and could significantly increase disincentives to work

Alfons Weichenrieder: Technical studies attest only minor advantages in terms of carbon footprint to the use of electric cars compared to vehicles with conventional power engines. However, important economic conditions are overlooked

Matthias Goldmann: The European Court of Justice’s verdict on the bond purchases of the European Central Bank (ECB) shows the rationalizing effect of legal discourses