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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 how privatization has worked out for the EU.
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Newest at
CESifo
October 25th, 2006
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Quick, get away from that noisy crowd down there |
Fear of Flying
Airport-neighborhood residents have over the years successfully forced airlines to reduce aircraft noise levels... by being louder themselves. A range of industry-level and airport-level measures have duly been implemented, but their economic implications, and those on safety and quality of service, had so far escaped a thorough analysis. Jan K. Brueckner took care of that.
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These CESifo folks are reaching ever loftier heights... |
Ranking Economists
Nice, for once, to turn the tables on those pesky dismal scientists. Always so fond of ranking everything in terms of performance, it is now they who have been put through the paces. The German daily Handelsblatt did the trick —albeit only on economists from the German-speaking world. Financial Times Deustchland performed a similar feat, as part of a sweeping survey of views of and on German economists. Interesting reading, by all means. Just follow the link below.
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Now, the P line shows our rising international standing |
A Budding German Ivy League
Stung by Germany's meagre performance in the international higher-education arena, the country is finally starting to do something about it. The first step was to assess a wide range of universities and then grant the very best of them "elite" status.
Guess why we are beaming: out of the first three elite universities,
two are located in Munich. They will have first crack at the 1.9-billion
euro pot earmarked for Germany's dash for academic prominence.
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Give me a pile of cash and I can lift the world |
An Inconvenient Truth?
Multilateral institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the UN and the latter's Security Council are supposed to be there for the benefit of all, and to be by their very nature neutral entities. And yet, suspicion lingers that they may somehow be misused to further the interests of some powerful countries. CESifo Researcher Jan-Egber Sturm and two colleagues have put some flesh to these claims.
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Impervious to impending VAT increases |
Ifo Index on the Rise
The increase in VAT next year will apparently fail to dampen Germany’s economic revival, according to the findings of the latest Ifo business climate survey: for the first time in three months, the surveyed firms expressed more confidence in their business expectations. Their positive assessment of their current business situation pushed the Ifo Business Climate Index for industry and trade in Germany upwards once more.
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