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Belgium
2023

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Overview

Guntram B. Wolff is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research spans several areas within economics, econometrics, and finance, with a portfolio of 32 publications in these domains. The scientist's work includes significant contributions to subfields such as economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, modeling and simulation, general energy, and global and planetary change.

Their research topics commonly focus on climate change policy and economics, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, global energy security and policy, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and market dynamics and volatility.

Guntram B. Wolff has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Simone Tagliapietra
  • Miquel Oliu-Barton
  • Grégory Claeys
  • Georg Zachmann
  • Arnaud Fontanet

Their frequent publication venues reflect interdisciplinary engagement, with multiple papers in:

  • Intereconomics
  • Nature
  • Energy Policy
  • Research Square
  • Global Policy

Among their recent papers are:

  • The effect of COVID certificates on vaccine uptake, health outcomes, and the economy (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Form a climate club: United States, European Union and China (2021, Nature)
  • Elimination versus mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of effective vaccines (2021, The Lancet Global Health)
  • The Global Quest for Green Growth: An Economic Policy Perspective (2022, Sustainability)
  • Conditions are ideal for a new climate club (2021, Energy Policy)

Guntram B. Wolff has also contributed to academic books, including a publication by Cambridge University Press titled The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation (2024).

Best Publications

  • What do deficits tell us about debt? Empirical evidence on creative accounting with fiscal rules in the EU

    Jürgen von Hagen;Guntram B. Wolff

  • Banking and Sovereign Risk in the Euro Area

    Stefan Gerlach;Stefan Gerlach;Alexander Schulz;Guntram B. Wolff;Guntram B. Wolff

  • Capital Markets Union and the Fintech Opportunity

    Maria Demertzis;Silvia Merler;Guntram B Wolff

  • The macroeconomic effects of exogenous fiscal policy shocks in Germany: a disaggregated SVAR analysis

    Jörn Tenhofen;Guntram B. Wolff;Kirsten H. Heppke-Falk

  • EU-IMF assistance to euro area countries- an early assessment

    Jean Pisani-Ferry;Andre Sapir;Guntram Wolff

  • Fiscal institutions, fiscal policy and sovereign risk premia in EMU

    Mark Hallerberg;Mark Hallerberg;Guntram B. Wolff

  • Fool the markets? Creative accounting, fiscal transparency and sovereign risk premia

    Kerstin Bernoth;Guntram B. Wolff

  • Capital Markets Union: a Vision for the Long Term

    Nicolas Véron;Guntram B. Wolff

  • The effect of COVID certificates on vaccine uptake, health outcomes, and the economy

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  • The effectiveness of subsidies revisited: Accounting for wage and employment effects in business R&D

    Guntram B. Wolff;Volker Reinthaler

  • Rules and risk in the Euro area

    Anna Iara;Guntram B. Wolff

  • A budget for Europe's monetary union

    Guntram B. Wolff

  • Should non-euro area countries join the single supervisory mechanism?

    Zsolt Darvas;Guntram B. Wolff

  • The macroeconomic effects of exogenous fiscal policy shocks in Germany: a disaggregated SVAR analysis

    Guntram B. Wolff;Jörn Tenhofen;Kirsten H. Heppke-Falk

  • A Compromise Estimate of German Net National Product, 1851-1913, and its Implications for Growth and Business Cycles

    Carsten Burhop;Guntram B. Wolff

  • Options for a Euro-area fiscal capacity

    Jean Pisani-Ferry;Erkki Vihriälä;Guntram B. Wolff

  • The fiscal implications of a banking union

    Jean Pisani-Ferry;Guntram Wolff

  • Euro-area governance- what to reform and how to do it

    André Sapir;Guntram B. Wolff

  • Moral Hazard and Bail‐Out in Fiscal Federations: Evidence for the German Länder

    Kirsten H. Heppke-Falk;Guntram B. Wolff

  • What Kind of Fiscal Union

    André Sapir;Benedicta Marzinotto;Guntram Wolff

  • What Do Deficits Tell Us About Debts? Empirical Evidence on Creative Accounting with Fiscal Rules in the EU

    Jürgen von Hagen;Jürgen von Hagen;Guntram B. Wolff;Guntram B. Wolff

  • An anatomy of inclusive growth in Europe. Bruegel Blueprint Series 26, October 2016

    Zsolt Darvas;Guntram B. Wolff

  • EU-IMF assistance to euro area countries: an early assessment. Bruegel Blueprint No. 19, 16 May 2013

    Jean Pisani-Ferry;Guntram B. Wolff;André Sapir

  • Benefits and drawbacks of European Unemployment Insurance

    Grégory Claeys;Zsolt Darvas;Guntram Wolff

  • Foreign direct investment in the enlarged EU: do taxes matter and to what extent?

    Guntram B. Wolff

  • What kind of European Banking Union? Bruegel Policy Contribution 2012/12, June 25, 2012

    Jean Pisani-Ferry;André Sapir;Nicolas Véron;Guntram B. Wolff

  • Form a climate club: United States, European Union and China.

    Simone Tagliapietra;Guntram B. Wolff

  • Europe after Brexit: a proposal for a new Continental Partnership

    Jean Pisani-Ferry;Norbert Röttgen;André Sapir;Paul Tucker

  • Which Fiscal Union for the Euro Area

    Agnès Bénassy-Quéré;Xavier Ragot;Guntram B. Wolff

  • An evaluation of IMF surveillance of the euro area. Bruegel Blueprint 14, 31st October 2011

    Jean Pisani-Ferry;André Sapir;Guntram B. Wolff

  • Euro-area governance: what to reform and how to do it. Bruegel Policy Brief 2015/01 February 2015

    Guntram B. Wolff;André Sapir

Frequent Co-Authors

André Sapir
André Sapir Université Libre de Bruxelles
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Mark Hallerberg
Mark Hallerberg Hertie School
Clemens Fuest
Clemens Fuest Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Lionel Fontagné
Lionel Fontagné Banque de France
Juergen von Hagen
Juergen von Hagen University of Bonn
Armin von Bogdandy
Armin von Bogdandy Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Pierre Mohnen
Pierre Mohnen Maastricht University
Marcel Fratzscher
Marcel Fratzscher German Institute for Economic Research

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