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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 pros and cons of financial
liberalization in developing countries.
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Newest at
CESifo
December
6th
2005
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Looking
brighter |
Upswing
in the Ifo Business Climate
The Ifo Business
Climate Index for German industry and trade rose clearly in December,
after a temporary decline in the previous month. The surveyed firms reported
an improved current business situation and also gave more favourable assessments
of their business expectations for the next six months than in November.
The latest data confirm the upturn of the Ifo Business Climate Index that
began late spring this year.
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Caution: Globalisation may fuel your domestic conflicts |
Domestic
Conflict and Globalisation
At country level,
globalisation is deemed to be a good thing: while not every citizen or industry
may benefit, as a whole the country wins. But when the country in question
is mired in domestic conflict, globalisation might turn out to be exactly
the wrong thing for it.
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A
little airplane here, a little ship there, and soon we are talking
serious money |
State
Visits and Foreign Trade
Heads of state
have their countries at heart. So much so, in fact, that they are willing
to travel around the globe to represent their interests personally. This
includes their commercial interests and, what do you know, heads of state
are not above peddling the advantages of their home products and services,
becoming a sort of glorified travelling salesmen in the process. But how
effective are they at that? Check out this CESifo Working Paper for the
answer.
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Those
at work are doing quite OK |
Married
Immigrants in the UK
Would you have
thought that in the UK white female immigrants and their husbands have
an overall advantage in earnings over the white native-born, both individually
and at the household level? Immigrants of other ethnic groups tend to
do less well, but with certain nuances. A new CESifo Working Paper has
the numbers.
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for hard data to support your research?
Visit
CESifo's DICE
Database for free-of-charge data
on country basics, education, labour markets, public finance,
social policy, health, business and much more.
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CESifo International Spring Conference
2006
High-ranking
businessmen and economists will converge on March 23-24 at
the British Embassy in Berlin to discuss the outlook for the
world's economy and debate the prospects for major European
industries in 2006.
Register
now in order to take advantage of the special registration
fees for early birds. Just follow the link below:
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