Ifo Experts
Staff members of the Ifo Institute with research fields.
Executive Board
President Phone: 089 9224-1276 | Questions regarding the Institute, economic policy, contributions to the reform debate, |
| Meinhard Knoche Board Member Phone: 089 9224-1288 | Questions regarding the Institute, personell and finances, Leibniz Society |
Press
Phone: 089 9224-1218 Website | Press relations |
Business Cycle Analysis and Surveys
| Prof. Dr. Kai Carstensen Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1266 Website | Business-cycle research: methods and empirical experience, business-cycle (Germany, EU, world), labour market developments, Ifo Business Climate Index, business survey, monetary policy |
| Dr. Steffen Elstner Phone: 089 9224-1247 Website | Business-cycle research, dynamic macroeconomics, monetary policy |
| Dr. Steffen Henzel Phone: 089 9224-1652 Website | Empirical Macroeconomics, Expectations, Monetary Economics, German Labor Market |
| Dr. Nikolay Hristov Phone: 089 9224-1225 Website | Monetary macroeconomics, global economic activity, Eurozone Economic Outlook, time series analysis |
| Dr. Wolfgang Nierhaus Phone: 089 9224-1304 | Inflation, price trends, forecasting methods, economic forecasts, Joint Economic Forecast of German Research Institutes, National Accounts |
| Wolfgang Ruppert Phone: 089 9224-1221 | Business survey in construction, company pensions (Studie 2000) |
| Dr. Klaus Wohlrabe Phone: 089 9224-1229 Website | Forecasting, methodology and evaluation of the Ifo Business Cycle Test, Time Series Econometrics |
| Dr. Timo Wollmershäuser Phone: 089 9224-1406 Website | Financial markets, money and currencies, dynamic macroeconomics |
Public Finance
| Prof. Dr. Niklas Potrafke Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1319 | Public Finance, Political Economy |
| Dr. Alexander Ebertz Phone: 089 9224-1394 | Regional Economics, Public Finance |
| Christian Breuer Phone: 089 9224-1265 | Public Finance (esp. taxes and revenue) |
Social Policy and Labour Markets
| Prof. Helmut Rainer, Ph.D. Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1607 | Family Economics, Population Economics, Labour Economics |
Human Capital and Innovation
| Prof. Dr. Ludger Wößmann Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1699 | Education Economics, Growth Economics, Innovation Economics, History of economics |
| Dr. Francesco Cinnirella Phone: 089 9444-1366 Website | History of economics |
| Dr. Oliver Falck Phone: 089 9224-1370 | Innovation and Growth, Entrepreneurship |
| Dr. Marc Piopiunik Phone: 089 9224-1312 Website | Education Economics, Labor Economics |
| Dr. Guido Schwerdt Phone: 089 9224-1310 Website | Education Economics, Labor Economics |
| Dr. Simon Wiederhold Telefon: 089 9224-1309 Website | Economics of Innovation |
Industrial Organisation and New Technologies
| Prof. Tobias Kretschmer, Ph.D. Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1426 | Strategy and economics of high-technology industries, especially communications markets, introduction and diffusion of new technologies |
| Hildegard Arnold-Rothmaier Phone: 089 9224-1316 | Transport |
| Matthias Balz Phone: 089 9224-1325 | Food industry, brewing industry, gastronomy, hotel trade, tourism, ecological agriculture, social insurance in the farming sector |
| Ludwig Dorffmeister Phone: 089 9224-1343 | Construction and real-estate |
| Michael Ebnet Phone: 089 9224-1321 Website | Branch analyses with a focus on trade and industry, Ifo Industry Colloquium, construction |
| Christian Essling Phone: 089 9224-1259 Website | Aviation |
| Joachim Gürtler Phone: 089 9224-1242 | Editorial management of Industry Branch Reports, leasing |
| Herbert Hofmann Phone: 089 9224-1283 | Branch analyses, services, sector-based studies |
| Hans-Dieter Karl Phone: 089 9224-1386 | Energy sector (electricity, water, gas), basic materials |
| Josef Lachner Phone: 089 9224-1690 | Distribution sector research (wholesaling, retailing, commercial agents) |
| Dr. Gernot Nerb Phone: 089 9224-1236 | National and international economy and industry trends, services, European industry, economic behavioural research including enterprise surveys and empirical business-cycle research |
| Horst Penzkofer Phone: 089 9224-1396 | Innovation research, innovation survey, trade fair research |
| Manfred Schöpe Phone: 089 9224-1327 | Agricultural production, agricultural markets, agricultural policies |
| Dr. Thomas Strobel Phone: 089 9224-1465 Website | Productivity and economic growth, the economics of hi-tech industries, esp. information and communication technologies, the competitiveness of industries and structural change, sector-based investment research (investor calculations)
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Energy, Environment and Exhaustible Resources
| Prof. Dr. Karen Pittel Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1384 | Climate, exhaustible resources |
| Dr. Marc Gronwald Phone: 089 9224-1400 | Environmental economics, resource economics, energy markets, oil prices, emissions trading |
| Dr. Tilmann Rave Phone: 089 9224-1365 | Environmental economics, instruments of environmental policies, corporate environmental policies, competitiveness – innovations – environmental policies |
| Dr. Johann Wackerbauer Phone: 089 9224-1277 | Environmental economics, eco-industry, water resource management, waste management, environmental policies |
| Dr. Markus Zimmer Phone: 089 9224-1260 | Migration, environmental economics, climate change, video lectures, media archive |
International Trade
| Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr, Ph.D. Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1428 | International trade policy, China, international migration, climate policy |
| Dr. Erdal Yalcin Phone: 089 9224-1420 | International trade, multinational enterprises, international trade policy |
International Institutional Comparisons
| Prof. Panu Poutvaara, Ph.D. Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1372 | Migration, fiscal federalism, political economics |
| Dr. Christa Hainz Phone: 089 9224-1237 | IInstitutions, banking markets, corporate financing, transition economics, political economics, CESifo DICE Report |
Ifo Dresden
| Prof. Dr. Marcel Thum Manager Phone: 0351-26476-19 | Structural change, labour markets, support policies, public finance, climate and environmental policies, demographic change |
| Dr. Joachim Ragnitz Managing Director Phone: 0351-26476-17 | Eastern German research: regional development, sectoral structural change, general economic policy, fiscal policy, implications of demographic change; observation of economic activity in Saxony/eastern Germany, support policies |
| Robert Lehmann Phone: 0351-26476-21 | Economic activity and growth |
| Katrin Behm Phone: 0351-26476-12 | Press and public relations, publications, Ifo Dresden library |