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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
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Newest at
CESifo
January
31st, 2006
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Test subject deciding upon market location |
Natural
Experiments in Synthetic Worlds
Well, what do you
know. Online games happen to be not only a lot of fun for those who play
them, but also a superb research tool for economists —and other practitioners
of social sciences as well. They offer the equivalent of having tens of
planets populated by human societies performing their natural interactions
under perfectly controlled conditions. In other words, the perfect laboratory.
Hadron Super Collider, roll over.
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Double-edged: Handle with care |
The
Quirks of Two-Sided Markets
Strange things
happen when you operate in a market where your customers belong to two different
but interdependent groups, so that what one does influences what the other
chooses. Strange things indeed, like sales improving when the government
increases the ad valorem tax on your product, for instance. Or that giving
away the product may increase your profits.
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Waiting
for grandchildren |
The
Real Back-Breaker
Ageing populations
keep finance ministers awake at night from Japan to Germany, Italy through
France. Who is going to pay their pensions once the working portion of
the population becomes a minority? And yet, it is not pensions that will
break the back of the social security system: it is health care. The numbers
are simply mind-boggling.
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Looking
ever brighter. Just don't dim down now. |
Upswing
Gains Momentum
The Ifo Business
Climate Index for German industry and trade rose again clearly in January,
after a significant improvement in the previous months. The surveyed firms
expressed greater satisfaction with their current business situation than
in December, and they again gave more favourable assessments of their
business expectations for the next six months.
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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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