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Wolf-Georg Ringe is Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Hamburg and Director of its Institute of Law & Economics. He taught full-time at Oxford between 2007-12 and continues this role as a regular Visiting Professor within the Faculty. In Oxford, he is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and an editorial board member of the Oxford Business Law Blog.
Georg specialises in European and global issues of corporate and financial law. He is an editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, which has been published by Oxford University Press since 2015. He is a Research Member with the European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels, and a Fellow at the European Banking Institute, Frankfurt. He has been advising both the European Commission and the European Parliament on issues of European Corporate Law. Georg teaches various courses in the field of corporate and business law, and his current research interests are in the areas of Law and Finance, Comparative Corporate Governance, Capital and Financial Markets, with a particular focus both on new technology and sustainability.
E-mail: georg.ringe [at] law.ox.ac.uk
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WG Ringe, 'COVID-19 and European Banks: no time for lawyers' in Christos Gortsos and Wolf-Georg Ringe (eds), Pandemic Crisis and Financial Stability (EBI 2020) The challenges arising from the Covid-19 pandemic are triggering a plethora of initiatives and policy responses. Given the emergency of the situation, many interventions are extraordinary and extreme both in their substance and in their time frame. Naturally, they trigger and will trigger a heated legal debate over the configuration of these measures; particularly within the fragile context of EU legislation. This short contribution does two things. First, it sketches the special situation of banks during the Covid 19 crisis in the European Union, ranging from emergency measures to keep them alive to the expectation that the financial sector is key of the solution of keeping real-economy firms and households afloat. Secondly, I develop the argument that the time for insisting on legalistic points and doubts is misguided. In an emergency, economic necessities, political decisiveness, and speediness of the decision-making process are paramount and must take precedent over legal objections.D Ringe and WG Ringe, 'How to Rescue Startups During the Pandemic' in Horst Eidenmüller, Luca Enriques, Genevieve Helleringer, Kristin van Zwieten (ed), Covid-19 and Business Law (Beck / Hart / Nomos 2020) This short contribution reviews the case for specific support towards startups during the Covid-19 pandemic.WG Ringe, 'Renforcer l’architecture de la zone euro par le marché' (2020) 9 Journal des Libertés 27 The historical introduction of the Euro through the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was (as generally accepted) ‘flawed by birth’ in that it was risky to enter into a common currency among several sovereign countries without creating a simultaneous political union. As evidenced by the 2008/09 global financial crisis and the ensuing sovereign debt crisis, the Eurozone is especially vulnerable to shocks because there are few common risk-sharing mechanisms. Policy-makers and scholars have sought ways to overcome that problem, based mostly on fiscal (public) risk-sharing mechanisms between Member States. However, given the political backlash against budgetary constraints, austerity and transfer payments, further fiscal integration at the EU level does not seem promising. Instead, this paper proposes an alternative way forward to reinforce the Eurozone. Stabilisation could come through private instead of public risk-sharing. That involves stronger integration of financial markets across the Eurozone with the ultimate goal of providing a private, market-based ‘insurance’ mechanism against future external shocks. Building on this fundamental insight, the paper will then develop a number of concrete policy proposals to build a robust framework for the future of the Eurozone. In so doing, it goes beyond traditional economic theory and proposes specific legal institutions that are crucial to realise a market-based reinforcement of the common currency. The result will be a step change in our understanding of the Eurozone architecture and of model value in attempts to strengthen currency unions in Europe and beyond.
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Blog posts by Wolf-Georg Ringe

Machine Learning, Market Manipulation, and Collusion on Capital Markets: Why the ‘Black Box’ Matters
By Alessio Azzutti | Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law | H. Siegfried Stiehl
Oxford Business Law Blog
The DLT Pilot Regime: An EU Sandbox, at Last!
By Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law | Christopher Ruof
Oxford Business Law Blog
Building a European market for crypto-assets: Who’s afraid of Libra?
By Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ‘The EU Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative—room for improvement’
By Alexander Bassen | Kerstin Lopatta | Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players Series - Bank-Fintech Partnerships, Outsourcing Arrangements, and the Case for a Mentorship Regime
By Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
Covid-19: No Time for Lawyers
By Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - How to Rescue Startups During the Pandemic
By Dorothea Ringe | Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
Call for Papers: Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players. Policy Challenges and Opportunities
By Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
The Dark Side of Bank Resolution: Counterparty Risk through Bail-in
By Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law | Jatine Patel
Oxford Business Law Blog
A Regulatory Sandbox for Robo Advice
By Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law | Christopher Ruof
Oxford Business Law Blog
The Irrelevance of Brexit for the European Financial Market
By Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Research Collection: BREXIT
The Irrelevance of Brexit for the European Financial Market
By Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
The Anatomy of Corporate Law: The New Edition
By John Armour, Faculty of Law | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Mariana Pargendler | Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
Kornhaas and the Limits of Corporate Establishment
By Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog