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  Newsletter March 2015
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  Featured Publication

So, who's you favourite candidate?

 With Your Dearest Interests at Heart

Of course I decide rationally how to cast my vote. I carefully weigh campaign platforms and economic promises, and I go for what I deem best for me. Signed: Your wallet.

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  The Original Sinn

You stay right here

 The Case for Capital Controls

A drought lasting many years. The neighbours, grudgingly, have been topping up the tank. But they now appear fed up and, worse, the tank suddenly starts to leak what little is left at an alarming rate. What to do? Well, for starters, plug the leaks. That's the case for capital controls in Greece, argues Hans-Werner Sinn.

More from and about Hans-Werner Sinn:
Greece's Payment Burden Soars
Capital Flight from Greece Accelerates Dramatically

   Economic Indicators

Just don't look down now

 Ifo Index Still Buoyant

The Ifo Business Climate Index is still on the rise, hitting its highest level since July 2014. Polled companies expressed both satisfaction with the current business situation as well as healthy optimism about the outlook. The only minor quibble: the construction boom is still there, but weakening a bit.

Other Economic Indicators:
Export Outlook Continues to Improve for Manufacturing
German Service Sector: Ifo Business Climate Indicator Rises Slightly
Ifo Architects Survey: Business Climate Improves for Freelance Architects
Credit Constraints Hit Historic Low Once Again

   From the Editor

If I could just get in there...

 The Parable of the Down-at-Heel and his Stingy Neighbours

It was so good while it lasted. Now, why won't the neighbours see the dire need, the scraping of the bottom of the barrel, and open up their wallets a bit more? Why, indeed.

  The Chart

 

 Confidence in the Police

Yes, yes, it is not an oxymoron. There are countries where people actually trust those guys in uniform patrolling the streets. They even find them quite useful. But there are also those places where when you see the police approaching you clutch your wallet and your watch tightly. Check out this Visual Story of the DICE database to see how the police is seen around the world, and how the views have evolved over time.

   Publications of Interest

Bridging the gap

 The Determinants of Gender Gaps

Different outcomes in the labour market do not reflect solely differences in abilities, but also in gender. This so-called gender gap has no unique determinant. As this special volume of CESifo Economic Studies shows, it is a multidimensional, complex issue. For instance, have men evolved to be innately more risk-taking than women, or have they become that way in part through cultural pressures? A dozen contributions look at the gender issue from angles ranging from the historical to the entrepreneurial.

Other Publications of Interest:
CESifo Forum
CESifo Economic Studies
CESifo DICE Report
CESifo World Economic Survey
CESifo Working Papers
  Forthcoming Events

Raj Chetty

 Richard Musgrave Lecture with Raj Chetty

For such a young scholar, he has amassed a remarkable number of distinctions, starting out with the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate at 28 years of age and accepting tenure at harvard at 29, the youngest ever. Raj Chetty has also won the John Bates Clark Medal, at the age of 33, and the Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics, among other prizes. He is adding this year's Richard Musgrave Professorship to his roster. Don't miss his lecture on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy on April 16.

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Forthcoming Academic Conferences

Munich Seminars in April:
Harald Weber: "Versorgungssicherheit und Systemstabilität beim Übergang zur Regenerativen Elektrischen Energieversorgung"
Paul B. Kazarian: "Greece: Government Accounting Reform as a Pre-Condition to EU Funds"

   People

Faces of the Month

 Guests and Locals

The CESifo Group is hosting a number of scholars during April. See what they are working on and get to know their research focus and other aspects of interest.


   Ifo News

Don't say you weren't warned

 Computers Good and Bad for Teaching

Using computers in the classroom leads to no improvement in the overall outcomes of math and science students, but averaging the results masks the fact that the use of computers has opposing effects in different areas, as an Ifo Institute study has found. The study covers the math and science achievements of over 400,000 4th and 8th-grade students from over 50 countries using data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

Other Ifo News:
More Trust with More Intense Competition

  Bulletin Board

 

 Join the WES Expert Group

This is your chance to join a select group of experts around the world who provide their input to the influential CESifo World Economic Survey. In other news, if you are from Africa or other developing regions, you could get funding to travel to the IIPF Annual Congress in Dublin. There is a lot more on offer this month. Just check the Bulletin Board. For new postings, please contact Yvonne Maldener.

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