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Is there always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives?
In a recent CESifo working paper Juliana Mesén Vargas and Bruno Van der Linden analyse the optimal level of unemployment benefits when jobless people have to sustain a certain level of subsistence consumption. Find a summary and the full working paper on our website.
Other CESifo Working Papers
Working Paper Submission Form
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Germany Should Adopt an Area-Based Property Tax
Germany’s Constitutional Court has declared the current property tax as unconstitutional because it is based on property values that are decades old, ultimately resulting in an arbitrary distribution of the tax burden among taxpayers. Read on to learn more about Clemens Fuest’s proposal of a novel, area-base property tax.
More from and about Clemens Fuest
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 Trade Wars in a ‘Winner-takes-all’ Economy
What are the implications of Trump’s trade follies involving tariffs for the rest of the world? EconPol network member Daniel Gros examines the nature of today’s trade wars by focusing on the high-tech sector. Read more on EconPol’s website.
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Results of the Economists Panel for May 2018
The 18th Economists’ Panel uses the ideas put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron as a basis for surveying economics professors at German universities on several proposals to reform the Eurozone. Find out what German scholars think about the proposals.
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Declining Trend in the ifo Business Climate Stopped
The declining trend in the ifo Business Climate has stopped. The index held steady at 102.2 points, after having fallen five months in succession. The very good current business situation improved slightly, but the optimistic expectations weakened slightly. The German economy is performing well in a difficult international situation.
Other Economic Indicators:
ifo Employment Barometer
ifo Export Expectations
ifo World Economic Survey
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EEAG Report: It’s OK to Be Different
Neither economic theory nor historical experience suggest that economic integration automatically implies the convergence of economic outcomes, or of institutional and policy inputs. This EEAG Column argues that diversity is natural and valuable, and policies should be adapted to specific circumstances.
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ifo DICE Report 1/2018: Labour Migration Policies
The Forum section presents and compares different immigration policies, and contributes to the debate over how policies should be designed to meet labour market demand in receiving economies. Find out more about this issue on our website.
Other Publications of Interest:
CESifo Forum
ifo World Economic Survey
CESifo Working Papers
Economic Policy
 EconPol Publications
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Munich Economic Summit 2018: Reshaping Europe
The Summit 2018 covers issues spanning the role and competitiveness of Europe in a new world order, the implications of Brexit, migration and digitalisation, the stability of the financial sector, populist and authoritarian tendencies, as well as European Economic and Monetary Union. The Summit 2018 will take place on 4 and 5 July at the BMW Welt in Munich.
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CESifo Area Conferences
The deadlines for submissions of papers for two area conferences are approaching. The call for papers for the Conference on Energy and Climate Economics ends on Friday 3 July. Two weeks later on 15 July the Conference on Behavioural Economics closes its doors for paper submissions. All CESifo Research Network members are invited to submit their papers. Please consult the respective conference website for more information.
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9th ifo Conference on "Macroeconomics and Survey Data"
In December, the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys will organise a conference in Munich on “Macroeconomics and Survey Data”. The conference is intended to discuss ongoing research on survey and micro data and its role and usage in macroeconomics. Please submit papers, theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented, via the conference website by 15 July. Further details are available here.
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Submission Deadlines for Conferences
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Guests and Locals
CESifo is hosting guest researchers from England, China and the USA in June 2018. Learn a bit about what they are working on, and about who they are:
Stefano Carattini, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, will be visiting CESifo 11 June to 20 June 2018.
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will be visiting CESifo 29 June to 7 July 2018.
Eric A. Hanushek, Stanford University - Hoover Institution, will be visiting CESifo 20 June to 26 June 2018.
Gary A. Hoover, University of Oklahoma, will be visiting CESifo 4 June to 22 June 2018.
Carlo Perroni, University of Warwick, will be visiting CES 15 June to 29 June 2018.
Mattias K. Polborn, Vanderbilt University, will be visiting CES from 17 June to 29 June 2018.
Constantinos Syropoulos, Drexel University, will be visiting CESifo 25 June to 6 July 2018.
Jing Xing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University was visiting CES from 4 June to 17 June 2018.
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PhD in Management and Economics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
The 4-year full-time PhD programme at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano combines methodological and theoretical courses with additional individualized training as recommended by the supervisor depending on the specific research interests and objectives of the PhD student. Topic-specific individual tutoring and mentoring, as well as funding for research stays abroad are among the special components of our programme. Scholarships are available (17.000 € per year). The application deadline is 9 July 2018. More information is available here.
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