Die Corona-Krise hat gravierende wirtschaftliche Folgen: Wie schafft es der Sozialstaat, neue Ungleichheiten zu bekämpfen? Welche Gefahr droht durch die immensen Schulden? Bleibt die Eurozone stabil? Was wird aus dem Klimaschutz? Und wie nutzen wir die Chancen, die diese Krise auch eröffnet?...

In the first years of the eurozone debt crisis, European governments were busy struggling to achieve short-term financial stabilisation of banks and entire countries. Now, after the OMT programme and other stabilisation measures have calmed investors, attention has shifted to two issues:...

'Experience with European fiscal rules has shown that European rules cannot prevent member states from accumulating high debt levels if they want to. The fact that the ECB increasingly positions itself as a fiscal bailout mechanism implies that the risk of short-term fiscal crises due to a...

In February 2020, the European Commission announced that it would present a plan for reforming the economic governance of the Eurozone, including the rules for public debt. The project was postponed by the outbreak of the corona pandemic, but now the reform is to come. There is a widespread...

In der Debatte über die Zukunft der Eurozone wird auch das Konzept der Bankenunion diskutiert. Hans-Peter Burghof, Universität Hohenheim, sieht unter den gegenwärtigen Bedingungen die Gefahr einer europäischen Bankenunion, in der das Vermögen einiger Länder des Währungsraumes ohne...

We analyze the effectiveness of fiscal policy in general and automatic stabilizers in particular to stabilize output in Eurozone member states under the current institutional framework of fiscal governance. First, a descriptive analysis based on macro data is conducted for the period 2007-2014,...