Guntram Wolff

Guntram Wolff is the Director of Bruegel since June 2013. His research is focused on the European economy and governance, fiscal and monetary policy, and global finance. He regularly testifies to the European Finance Ministers’ ECOFIN meeting, the European Parliament, the German Parliament (Bundestag) and the French Parliament (Assemblée Nationale) and was a member of the French prime minister’s Conseil d’Analyse Economique from 2012-16.

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• Bruegel s guntram wolff priorities for merkel s new mandate
• Bruegel s gregory claeys and guntram wolff on the threat of low inflation in the eurozone
• Publications
• References

He is also a member of the Solvay Brussels School’s international advisory board of the Brussels Free University. He joined Bruegel from the European Commission, where he worked on the macroeconomics of the euro area and the reform of euro area governance. Prior to joining the Commission, he was coordinating the research team on fiscal policy at Deutsche Bundesbank. He also worked as an adviser to the International Monetary Fund.

He holds a PhD from the University of Bonn, studied economics in Bonn, Toulouse, Pittsburgh and Passau and previously taught economics at the University of Pittsburgh and at Université libre de Bruxelles. He has published numerous papers in leading academic journals. Guntram is fluent in German, English, French and has good notions of Bulgarian and Spanish. His columns and policy work are published and cited in leading international media such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Caixin, Nikkei, El Pais, La Stampa, FAZ, Handelsblatt, Les Echos, BBC, ZDF, and others.

Publications

His publications are available on www.guntramwolff.net. Recent Bruegel publications can be found here: http://bruegel.org/author/guntram-b-wolff/

Selected academic journal publications include

Identifying discretionary fiscal policy reactions with real time data, with Ulf von Kalckreuth, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 2011,.

Heterogeneity in money holdings across euro area countries: the role of housing, with Ralph Setzer and Paul van den Noord, European Journal of Political Economy, older version: European Economy - Economic Paper 407, Deutsche Bundesbank DP 4/2010. see also: VoxEu.org, May 15. 2010 and European Economy Research Letter

The macroeconomic effects of exogenous fiscal policy shocks in Germany: a disaggregated SVAR analysis with Kirsten H. Heppke-Falk and Jörn Tenhofen, Journal of Economics and Statistics – Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 230 (3), 2010. older version Bundesbank DP 41-2006

The German sub-national government bond market: structure, determinants of yield spreads and Berlin’s foregone bail-out with Alexander Schulz, Journal of Economics and Statistics – Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 229(1), 61-83, 2009. An initial version of the article appeared as Bundesbank DP 6-2008, see also Bundesbank monthly bulletin article of June 2008.

Fiscal institutions, fiscal policy and sovereign risk premia in EMU with Mark Hallerberg, Public Choice, 136(3-4), 379-396, 2008. (Springer online ) working paper: Bundesbank DP 35-2006.

The effectiveness of subsidies revisited: accounting for wage and employment effects in business R&D with Volker Reinthaler, Research Policy, 37, 1403–1412, 2008.

Moral hazard and bail-out in fiscal federations: Evidence for the German Länder with Kirsten Heppke-Falk, Kyklos – International Review for Social Sciences, 61(3), 425-46, 2008

Fool the markets? Creative accounting, fiscal transparency and sovereign risk premia with Kerstin Bernoth, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 55(4), 465-87, 2008

What do deficits tell us about debt? Empirical evidence on creative accounting with fiscal rules in the EU with Jürgen von Hagen, Journal of Banking and Finance, volume 30 (12), 3259-3279, 2006.

A Compromise Estimate of German Net National Product 1851-1913 and its Implications for Growth and Business Cycles with Carsten Burhop, Journal of Economic History, volume 65 (3), p. 613-657, 2005.