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What is CESifo?
CESifo
is the international platform of the University of Munich's Center
for Economic Studies and Germany's Ifo Institute for Economic Research
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Required reading: CESifo-MIT book on the decline of the welfare state
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Newest at
CESifo
March
29th 2005
A
Ringing Endorsement
German President
Horst Köhler delivered a momentous speech on the German
economy on March 15 in Berlin. In it, he urged policy-makers to promptly
adopt such employment-generating reforms as the Activating Social
Assistance proposed by the Ifo Institute. What is it exactly
that he was endorsing?
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more
Marriage
and the City
Sex and the
City laid the truth bare for all to see: big towns are teeming with
willing single girls out to get the available men. If you are single and
looking for a partner, it won't hurt if you improve your chances by searching
in such promising markets. Is that the reason why singles of all sexes
head in droves for the city? A new CESifo Working Paper explores this
question in depth.
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more
Interview
with Assar Lindbeck
One of Sweden's
most versatile economists, Assar Lindbeck is a towering
figure in his home country not only for his prolific contributions in
all fields of economics, but also for his unswerving purpose of lifting
ordinary people's standard of life. And he even paints (one of his works
is pictured above). Get to know him better through this interview conducted
by Thorvaldur Gylfason.
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David
Bradford Memorial Conference
The Sixth CESifo
Venice Summer Institute will include a special conference
dedicated to the
memory of the late David
Bradford, a great economist and one of the leading lights
in Public Finance.
Bradford, who until his passing was acting head of the Ifo Scientific
Council, always showed great interest in the economics of environmental
and climate policy, the subject of this memorial conference.
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