Author: Peter Bofinger

Germany’s Seventh Year of Stagnation Exposes a Missing Strategy

Berlin’s new growth package and pension overhaul dodge the real problem: the collapse of corporate investment and innovation.

Spain’s heretical VAT cut tames inflation—a model for Europe as Trump’s tariffs and Middle East shocks bite.

Germany’s faith in free markets has left it squeezed between China and America — but a defence-spending loophole offers unexpected hope.

A prominent economist’s attack on an entire generation ignores economic facts and threatens social cohesion.

Christine Lagarde seeks a greater international role for the euro, but Europe’s economic realities present a complex challenge.

Germany scraps its debt brake, unleashing a 500-billion-euro investment plan that could transform infrastructure, defence, and economic growth.

Financial integration is not the problem, writes Peter Bofinger. It is the still national segmentation of government bonds.

Peter Bofinger explains what lies behind the conflict within Germany’s Ampelkoalition on economic policy.

Europe needs massive investment, Peter Bofinger writes. Yet the ECB’s restrictive monetary stance means it is set to fall this year.

The austerity package stemming from an adverse Constitutional Court ruling, Peter Bofinger writes, defies logic.

Germany is indeed ‘sick’, Peter Bofinger writes—but not for the reason most commentators think.

Asserting the need for further interest rate rises, Peter Bofinger writes, is not the same as evidencing them.

The bank was mismanaged but its collapse, Peter Bofinger writes, reveals a system of regulation with as many holes as a Swiss cheese.

A Schumpeterian perspective provides new insights for fiscal policy in Europe, Peter Bofinger writes.

Peter Bofinger argues that on the ‘digital euro’ the European Central Bank has dug itself into a hole it would do best to vacate.

Peter Bofinger questions last week’s award of a prestigious economics prize to an orthodox school which could not anticipate the 2008 crash.