The European Commission is planning to restructure the current European Stability Mechanism (ESM) into a European Monetary Fund (EMF). These plans have triggered a debate within Germany’s “Grand Coalition” over…
In Janet Yellen’s last meeting as chairwoman, the US Federal Reserve decided to leave the federal funds rate unchanged. After a rate hike in December 2017, the Federal Open Market Committee has decided to keep…
As part of the Leibniz Economic Summit in Berlin, the president of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Professor Achim Wambach, engaged in a discussion on “Digitalisation and the Labour Market”…
In the Catalan regional elections, pro-independence parties were once again able to secure a majority in the Catalan parliament. Professor Friedrich Heinemann, head of the Research Department “Corporate…