ifo institute

Economia

MUNICH – The euro crisis has passed through six phases so far. It is worth recalling them, because they show how policymakers stumbled along, trying to put out

Economia

MUNICH – The European Union has earned its place as an instrument for peace in Europe. Free trade has brought prosperity to its peoples, and the freedom to

Economia

MUNICH – The wrangling about raising the US government’s borrowing limit – now thankfully over, at least for a few months – underscores the hazards posed by

Economia

MUNICH – Germany’s Constitutional Court is preparing what might become the most important decision in its history. Last September, the court allowed the German

Economia

MUNICH – Last summer, the financier George Soros urged Germany to agree to the establishment of the , calling on the country to Now that Germany should exit

Notizie

Hans-Werner Sinn, president of the Ifo Institute, can the German economy continue to decouple from the crisis afflicting southern European countries, as shown

Economia

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to end it. Policymakers

Economia

MUNICH – The European Central Bank has managed to calm the markets with its promise of unlimited purchases of eurozone government bonds, because it effectively

Economia

MUNICH – Europe and the world are eagerly awaiting the decision of Germany’s Constitutional Court on September 12 regarding the European Stability Mechanism

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Increasingly, heads of state and government, finance ministers and central bank governors, EU and euro zone institutions, lean over the deathbed of the euro,

Economia

MUNICH – In blatant violation of the Maastricht Treaty, the European Commission has come forward with one bailout plan after another for Europe’s distressed

Economia

MUNICH – For a while, it looked as if the European Central Bank’s Ђ1 trillion credit program to pump liquidity into Europe’s banking system had calmed global

Economia

MUNICH – Under substantial external pressure, the eurozone’s crisis-hit countries are, at long last, bringing themselves to make painful cuts in their

Economia

MUNICH – By 2010, Europe was to be the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based society in the world. This was the official proclamation in 2000 of the

Economia

MUNICH – The world’s worst post-war financial crisis is over. It arrived suddenly in 2008, and, after roughly 18 months, vanished almost as quickly as it had