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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: The economics of happiness brilliantly dissected
by Bruno Frey.
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Newest at
CESifo
August 5th , 2008
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The Law of Demand must be hidden here somewhere |
Online Reality
The social sciences
have their problems when it comes to running natural experiments. After
all, you can't just chuck an entire population into the incinerator if
your experiment fails, as if it were a bacterial colony on a Petri dish.
But the virtual worlds of online games offer just the right laboratory conditions for such
large-scale, long-haul, Petri-dish-like experiments. And they are fun
to play, on top of that. Just ask Edward Castronova.
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With your best interests at heart |
Vladimir's Secret
Why is is that
even self-centred, irascible leaders manage to catalyse large-scale institutional change
and, in the process, elicit enthusiastic support from their followers? Being at the right place at the right time, perhaps? Or a driven, single-minded, ambitious and somewhat ruthless way of doing things? Well, actually, a bit of symbiosis
between him and his followers might be the real answer. Leader and followers mutually empower each other. And research just published by Sharun Mukand confirms
this insight.
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Venice, threatened by global warming |
Europe and Global Environmental Issues
If you want to reinvent Europe in order to make it fit for the future, you cannot but think global. That is why a workshop of the How to Construct Europe project, held within the framework of this year's CESifo Venice Summer Institute, placed the continent squarely on the global context when discussing environmental issues that will influence its future course. China, India and many emerging economies will play an increasingly important role in devising Europe's most suitable policies. And not just in environmental issues.
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German President at Ifo
In a gesture
to underline the Ifo Institute's importance in economic research and in the provision
of economic policy advice, German President Horst Köhler paid a visit to Ifo on August 5th to gain
a first-hand insight into the institute's wide range of activities.
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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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