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Business Cycle Analyses and Surveys

Euro-zone Economic Outlook:
A recession in sight (11 January 2012).

Public Finance

Increased Revenue Due to Strong Growth in Wages
Results of the tax revenue forecast of November 2011

Social Policy and Labour Markets

The department is coordinating the Eighth Family Report of the German Federal Government.

Human Capital and Innovation

On February 29 there will be a workshop with the title �Central exit exams as a steering tool in the schooling system� at the Ifo Institute.

Industrial Organisation and New Technologies

The conference �Management and Economics of ICT� will take place from 29 February 2012 to 2 March 2012.

Energy, Environment and Exhaustible Resources

The Department of Energy, Environment and Exhaustible Resources of the Ifo Institute and the Research Center for Energy Economics are conducting an expert workshop for the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) entitled �The Future of Energy Markets � Economic Analysis, Evaluation of Potentials and Scope for Activity� in Berlin on 10th February 2012.

International Trade

Our JEEM publication as a research highlight in Nature Climate Change (2012, Vol. 2, Issue 1).

International Institutional Comparisons

The new inter-divisional project "Optimal Immigration Policies in Europe: From Conflicting Interests to Mutual Gains" was launched in January.

Ifo Dresden

Results of comprehensive research projects are published in the book series ifo Dresden Studien
Latest volumes: ifo Dresden Studien 60 and 61.

Center for Economic Studies (CES)

In February the following researchers are visiting CES: Ken Kletzer, University of California Santa Cruz, Alessandra Casarico, Bocconi University, Bruno Van der Linden, Economics School of Louvain, and Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen.

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