“The zero interest policy pursued for years deprived the interest rate of its selection function, meaning that it could no longer be used to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable assets.”Read more
Ifo President Sinn Sceptical About Paris Climate Change Agreement
“Ultimately, this agreement, like its predecessor the Kyoto Agreement, will not prevent a further increase in the use of fossil fuels.”Read more
Ifo President Sinn Criticises Central Banks
“It is a scandal that money creation of 358 billion euros apparently took place and that ECB President Mario Draghi, by his own admission, was unaware of what these funds were going to be used for.”Read more
Review of Half a Century
Public University Lecture by Hans-Werner Sinn, Monday, 14 December 2015, 6.00 p.m., Great Hall of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich.Details
Ifo Economic Forecast
Press conference: Ifo Economic Forecast for 2016 in Berlin, 9 December, with Prof. Sinn and Prof. Wollmershäuser.Details
Hans-Werner Sinn Wins “Professor of the Year” Award
Kempen: “He is a free thinker with strong opinions and an independent voice of warning outside the political mainstream whose arguments spark and fuel debate.”
Ifo President Sinn Criticises Expansion of ECB’s Bond Buying Programme
“Doing even more is going too far, in view of the effects already visible to date. It confirms suspicions that the ECB is more concerned with bailing out ailing states and banks, rather than carrying out monetary policy.”Read more
“Can the Islamic State Unify Europe?”
If recent events have taught us anything, it is that the biggest threats to the EU stem not from inadequate fiscal risk-sharing, but from insufficient coordination on foreign-policy and security challenges.Read more
Süddeutsche Zeitung: The Economic Summit 2015 in Berlin
Hans-Werner Sinn in cross-examination: Greece, Germany and the Euro.Details
International Migration and Europe
Press Conference with Profs. Sinn, Felbermayr and Poutvaara on Migration.Read more
Ifo BrIEF 2015: Is Europe back on a Growth Track with its Energy Union and in Promoting Innovation?
Press Conference with Profs. Sinn and Falck on German Energy Reform and Innovations on 5 November in Brussels at 13:30.Details
Do not perpetuate the Dutch Disease in Europe: Lessons from German reunification for a European Fiscal Union
With a European transfer union on the cards, we can learn a lot from Germany’s reunification – a transfer union of sorts.Read more
“The Situation in Greece and the Future of Europe”
Special Munich Seminar, 28 October 2015, with Prof. Yanis Varoufakis, former Minister of Finance of Greece, Marc Beise, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Hans-Werner Sinn.Details
Euro Crisis: Topical Comments of Ifo President Hans-Werner Sinn
In Sinn’s Corner, the Ifo President’s articles and comments on current political topics are grouped together under various topics. Read more on the euro crisis.Read more
“The Limits of the German Promised Land”
In order to avert chaos, Germany has no choice but to impose restrictions on the influx of migrants.Read more