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...As the biggest shareholder in the ECB, the Bundesbank has an important influence on policy, though Nagel’s predecessor, Jens Weidmann, was often isolated in his resistance to more dovish monetary policy....
...Jens Weidmann declined to comment....
...Nagel, 55, who spent most of his career at the Bundesbank before joining the BIS as deputy head of the banking unit last year, has emerged as the preferred candidate to succeed Jens Weidmann, who announced...
...However, the idea of expanding asset purchases is likely to meet opposition from more conservative members of the ECB’s governing council, including Germany’s Jens Weidmann and Klaas Knot of the Netherlands...
...The Bundesbank has bought €1tn of mostly German government debt since 2015 as part of the European Central Bank’s bond-buying programmes, which Nagel’s predecessor Jens Weidmann repeatedly voted against....
...Jens Weidmann, who this week announced his departure from the presidency of the Bundesbank after a decade-long term, played his role as the most prominent dissenting voice on the European Central Bank’s...
...Germany’s new coalition government has picked Joachim Nagel, a top executive at the Bank for International Settlements, as successor to Jens Weidmann at the helm of the country’s central bank....
...This puts the ECB in the near-impossible situation of deciding when a country’s bond yields are justified or not, according to Germany’s former central bank chief Jens Weidmann....
...Jens Weidmann has decided to step down after a decade as head of Germany’s central bank, only weeks after the country’s general election and shortly before a crucial decision on the future of eurozone monetary...
...The choice of who will succeed Jens Weidmann as head of Germany’s central bank will send an important early signal about the balance of power between the three parties negotiating to form a new coalition...
...Christian Odendahl (“A new German economic era dawns as the Bundesbank changes guard”, Opinion, FT Weekend, October 23) asserts that the departure of Jens Weidmann from the helm of the Bundesbank “marks...
...Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann plans to leave his post after more than a decade leading Germany’s central bank, citing “personal reasons”....
...Jens Weidmann, the outgoing president of the Bundesbank and a member of the ECB governing council, told a banking conference in Frankfurt on Friday: “Given the considerable uncertainty about the inflation...
...Jens Weidmann, head of Germany’s Bundesbank, has been a lonely voice among Europe’s central bankers for a decade....
...Speaking at a ceremony to mark Nagel’s replacement of Jens Weidmann at the helm of Germany’s central bank, he said: “I currently see a greater risk that the inflation rate could remain high for longer than...
...No more Mr Nein Jens Weidmann will bow out as president of the Bundesbank today with a final warning about the dangers of “fiscal dominance” in the eurozone as he hands over the reins of Germany’s central...
...Weidmann who decided to quit after a decade in the job....
...We thought it would be timely to profile Jens Weidmann, the governor of Germany’s Bundesbank, and look at his somewhat unexpected transformation over the past few years....
...The job opened up after the incumbent Jens Weidmann announced his decision to quit in October. He will stand down at the end of the year....
...“Given the considerable uncertainty about the inflation outlook, monetary policy should not commit to its current very expansionary stance for too long,” said Jens Weidmann, president of the Bundesbank and...
...Jens Weidmann said there were “upside risks” to the outlook for inflation and energy prices could be pushed higher than economists expect by governments’ policies to fight climate change....
...Nagel, a former executive at the Bank for International Settlements, worked at the Bundesbank for 17 years before leaving in 2016 and was chosen by Germany’s new government to take over from Jens Weidmann...
...Joachim Nagel, who succeeded Jens Weidmann as Bundesbank president and a member of the European Central Bank’s governing council this week, said: “Citizens have considerably less money left in their wallets...
...Since then, Jens Weidmann has announced that he will step down as head of Germany’s central bank and leave the ECB council at the end of the year — a move his colleagues said was prompted by his belief that...
...It was a danger highlighted by Jens Weidmann last month as he bowed out as president of Germany’s Bundesbank, and has also been raised by his successor Joachim Nagel....
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