Topics 2015
Do Not Perpetuate the Dutch Disease in Europe: Lessons from German Reunification for a European Fiscal Union, November 9th, 2015
Why “Grexit” Could Be Good for Greece, July 9th, 2015
Carte Blanche for ECB Gives Cause for Concern, June 19th, 2015
Varoufakis’s Great Game, June 9th, 2015
Why the ECB QE May not Mean a Safe Retirement, June 3rd, 2015
Stop the Splinter Unions, June 1st, 2015
Europe’s Easy-Money Endgame, March 31st, 2015
Why the Taxpayer is on the Hook, March 18th, 2015
Europe’s Shadow Budget, February 20th, 2015
The Case for Capital Controls, February 19th, 2015
Topics 2014
Europe’s Brush with Debt, October 29th, 2014
German Gerontocracy, June 10th, 2014
Thomas Piketty’s World Formula, May 14th, 2014
Quantitative Easing, May 12th, 2014
Europe’s Next Moral Hazard, May 6th, 2014
Why We Should Give Putin a Chance, May 2nd, 2014
Putin and Flickering Power, March 17th, 2014
Outright Monetary Infractions, February 11th, 2014
World Champion Capital Exporter, March 12th, 2014
A Rescuing Europe from the Ground Up, January 21st, 2014
Topics 2013
Two Perspectives on the Euro Crisis, October 17th, 2013
A Question of Money, October16th, 2013
Germany’s Case Against the ECB, July 5th, 2013
Should Germany Exit the Euro?, May 14th, 2013
The Case for Car Tolls, May 8th, 2013
New Migration, May 3rd, 2013
The Collateral Damage of Europe's Rescue, March 5th, 2013
The eurozone’s banking union is deeply flawed, February 15th, 2013
Cameron and the question of Europe, February 5th, 2013
A Second Chance for European Reform, January 16th, 2013
Topics 2012
Guarantees for Europe's Ailing Banks, December 3rd, 2012
The Logic of the Target Trap, November 30th, 2012
Alliance of the Unequal, October 10th, 2012
An Open Currency Union, July 18th, 2012
The European Banking Union?, July 3rd 2012
Athens Today: Weimar Revisited, July 2nd 2012
A Crisis in Full Flight, May 18th, 2012
A Euro Sabbatical, March 16th, 2012
Fed versus ECB: How Target debts can be repaid, March 14th, 2012
Requiem for Germany’s feed-in tariffs, February 28th, 2012
Topics 2011
Buying Out the Store with the Printing Press, November 10th, 2011
The Threat to Use the Printing Press, October 31st, 2011
The Way Out of the Crisis, September 23rd, 2011
The Trouble with Eurobonds, September 22nd, 2011
The European Balance of Payments Crisis, July 29th, 2011
Greek Tragedy, July 27th, 2011
The ECB Must Change its Policy, July 8th, 2011
The Migration Storm, June 7th, 2011
Deep Chasms, March 29th, 2011
Why the Rescue Fund is Large Enough, February 16th, 2011
Topics 2010
Has Germany Profited from the Euro?, November 4th, 2010
Currency War – the Guilt is not China’s Alone, November 2nd, 2010
Stricter and fairer, October 21st, 2010
Tolls Instead of Traffic Jams, August 30th, 2010
What Euro Crisis, July 6th, 2010
Reallocation of Savings in Europe, June 22nd, 2010
Cracks in the Business Model, June 9th, 2010
How to Save the Euro, April 29th, 2010
A new Glass-Steagall Act?, February 9th, 2010
Insecure Securities: The Collapse of the US Securitization Market, January 19th, 2010
Topics 2009
Panta Rhei, November 20th, 2009
Good and Bad Speculations, August 25th, 2009
The Triad of Theory, Econometrics and Knowledge of Institutions, July 6th, 2009
Germany’s Wrong Business Model, July 1st, 2009
The Green Paradox, June 29th, 2009
Bad Banks and Bad Ideas, June 10th, 2009
Stuffing the Goose Strategy, April 1st, 2009
Forget Inflation, March 10th, 2009
Hands off!, March 5th, 2009
Scrappage Scheme in the German Economic Stimulus Package, March 3rd, 2009
Topics 2008
What Can be Learned from the Banking Crisis, October 4th, 2008
Plugging the Leaks: What Caused the Banking Crisis, October 28th, 2008
Nuclear Power: Wrong-Way Driver Germany, July 22nd, 2008
Barbarians or Geniuses at the Gate?, July 15th, 2008
Market Order under Attack: Seizure of Power by Münchhausen, July 1st, 2008
Poverty Creation from Unrealistic Needs Adjustments, June 9th, 2008
Lemon Banking, May 19th, 2008
The German State Banks: Creative Destruction , May 8th, 2008
The Party is Over, March 18th, 2008
Cuius regio eius religio, February 12th, 2008
Topics 2007
Christmas Fear: Angela and Minimum Wages, November 26th, 2007
How the Upswing Came About – Six Hypotheses , November 15th, 2007
Should We Run Our Cars on Food?, October 16th, 2007
Stand firm, Herr Mehdorn! – The German Railway Strike, August 8th, 2007
The same old mistake: How to Tame the Competitors, July 11th, 2007
The Green Paradox, July 9th, 2007
France’s Path Not Taken, June 27th, 2007
The Thirty Billion Euro Deal: Seignorage of ECB, May 22nd, 2007
Cars Buy Cars, March 21st, 2007
Will Eastern EU Expansion Create Jobs in Germany?, March 20th, 2007
Topics 2006
Scandinavia’s Accounting Trick, November 10th, 2006
Shrinking Champion, November 8th, 2006
Increased Prices for Spoiled Meat?, September 28th, 2006
Germany: World Champion in Tourism, August 1st, 2006
Germany: A Land of Immigration?, July 31st, 2006
A Suit from a Cabinetmaker?, June 6th, 2006
Subject versus Object, April 10th, 2006
PISA and the German Three-class Society, March 14th, 2006
The Next Welfare State, March 2nd, 2006
Six Principles of the Combi-Wage, January 17th, 2006
Topics 2005
Reward Childrearing in the Pension System!, December 7th, 2005
The Envy Tax, November 8th, 2005
Investment is the Core Issue, September 15th, 2005
The Five Shocks: Why Germany is Lagging Behind, August 4th, 2005
Some Facts on VAT, July 21st, 2005
Pathological Export Boom and Bazaar Effect, May 4th, 2005
Why Minimum Wages Hurt Germany, April 14th, 2005
The Arguments of the Reform Opponents, March 4th, 2005
Will the Sinners Punish Themselves?, February 28th, 2005
How to Combat German Unemployment, February 11th, 2005
Topics 2004
Seven Truths Regarding Immigration, November 29th, 2004
Why Extending Working Hours Will Create More Jobs, November 18th, 2004
Hartz V, November 8th, 2004
The Export Puzzle, November 2nd, 2004
Seven Truths About Civil Servants, October 11th, 2004
Equivalent Standards of Living and Factor Price Equalization, September 14th, 2004
Germany, the Welfare Magnet, July 20th, 2004
Directive on Free Movement: Free Ticket to the Welfare State, May 27th, 2004
In the Debt Trap, May 21st, 2004
Low Wages, Wage Subsidies and Investive Wages, March 4th, 2004
Topics 2003
Bazaar Economy, January 8th, 2004
The German Disease and the Agenda 2010, October 24th, 2003
Hands off the Mileage Allowance!, October 2nd, 2003
Working Longer, July 25th, 2003
Borrowing or Taxes?, June 19th, 2003
New Inflation Targets for the ECB, May 21st, 2003
Putting a Stop to Autobahn Communism, March 18th, 2003
Twenty Mezzogiornos, February 13th, 2003
Pensions and Children, January 15th, 2003
Another Unification and More Illusions, January 8th, 2003
Topics 2002
More Big Government – The Ten Point Programme of the New Ruling Coalition, October 18th, 2002
Getting Down to Work after the Election, October 8th, 2002
Financing the Flood Damage, August 28th, 2002
The Heart of Hartz, August 19th, 2002
E.ON, Ruhrgas and Consumer Protection, July 17th, 2002
Why the Euro is Strong Again, July 5th, 2002
Too much of a Good Thing, August 5th, 2002
Is the Euro a Price Booster?, July 11th, 2002
Germany´s Anaemic Growth, May 17th, 2002
The True Significance of the Euro, April 30th, 2002
Topics 2001
Save our Coal!, November 23rd, 2001
Chancellor Schröder´s Steady Hand Must Act Now, November 8th, 2001
Whither Systems Competition?, October 3rd, 2001
Economies, Businesses and Economists, September 26th, 2001
The Japanese Disease, June 13th, 2001
In Defence of the Free Movement of Labour, May 2nd, 2001
Back to Nature, April 27th, 2001
The Socialisation of Human Capital, April 5th, 2001
Thank you, England!, March 15th, 2001
Social Welfare Reform, January 18th, 2001
Topics 2000
Chaos in Nice, December 20th, 2000
Double Majority, December 5th, 2000
Why has the euro fallen?, November 27th, 2000
Blind in One Eye?, November 7th, 2000
A step in the right direction, October 18th, 2000
20% is the Limit, September 26th, 2000
The Battle with OPEC, September 20th, 2000
Greencard, Goethe und Gates, July 4th, 2000
Transfer Economy, June 30th, 2000
The Dilemma of Globalisation, March 6th, 2000
Topics 1999
Currency Boards for the New EU Member States, December 23rd, 1999
EU Enlargement: the Migration Problem, December 23rd, 1999
Transrapid, December 1st, 1999
Opt-out Clauses, November 22nd, 1999
A New Welfare Concept, November 15th, 1999
Tax Reform, November 9th, 1999
Funded Pensions, November 3rd, 1999
Ten Years of Eastern German Recovery, October 26th, 1999
Bans on Advertising, October 26th, 1999
State Pension at 60, October 26th, 1999