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Wolfgang Wiegard

Since 1990 he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance. In 2003 he was appointed a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Since March 2001 he is a member – from April 2002 to February 2005 chairman – of the Council of Economic Experts to assess the overall economic development.

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Europe must take control of banking stress tests

Peter Bofinger, Christian de Boissieu, Daniel Cohen, Wolfgang Franz, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Christoph Schmidt, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Wolfgang Wiegard warn against a false sense of security, which European governments seem to be lulled into, and propose common tests to evaluate the true state of Europe’s banking system based on common macro scenarios, common valuation […]

By: Peter Bofinger, Christian de Boissieu, Wolfgang Franz, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Christoph Schmidt and Wolfgang Wiegard Topic: Banking and capital markets Date: May 30, 2009