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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?
15 Feb 2018

The Importance and Potentials of Micro Data Analysis

Loriana Pelizzon explains why data transparency is crucial for financial stability in the EU

Private Finance
12 Feb 2018

Touted Stocks - Who Can Think of It?

SAFE Program Director Andreas Hackethal about surprising research results on pump-and-dump maneuvers
07 Feb 2018

Is the Three-Pillar System still Consistent with Europe’s Banking Structure?

Reinhard H. Schmidt explains why the German model should not be called into question
08 Jan 2018

"MiFID II will Change the European Financial Markets Fundamentally"

Peter Gomber about the reorganization of the market structure and more transparency
05 Jan 2018

A Holistic Approach to ECB Monetary Policy and Prudential Supervision

Matthias Goldmann: Current legal framework of EMU does not require separation of monetary policy and financial supervision
29 Dec 2017

The Regulatory Dilemma of MiFID II

Interview with Günter Franke: New rules impair service to retail investors

08 Dec 2017

Expectations on Others

Alfons Weichenrieder: “Black list” of tax havens could become a boomerang for EU
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