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Business Cycle Analyses and Surveys

At the NBER Summer Institute in Boston Steffen Elstner came into contact with the world’s best macroeconomists.

Public Finance

Tax revenue to fall further
Results of the tax revenue forecast for May 2010

Social Policy and Labour Markets

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

Human Capital and Innovation

Nina Czernich, Erik Hornung, Elke Lüdemann, Marc Piopiunik, Guido Schwerdt and Ludger Wößmann present recent research at the Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik in Kiel.

Industry Branch Research

The annual conference Ifo Industry Colloquium will take place on 25 October in the IHK Academy Munich.

Environment and Transportation

Marc Gronwald „The green Paradoxon: The Choice of Capacity“ and Janina Ketterer “On the sources of Carbon price fluctuations” presented at the „11th IAEE (International Association for Energy Economics) European Conference“ in Vilnius.

International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Thomas Strobel has just completed his dissertation "Empirical Essays on Information, Technology and Productivity Growth".

International Institutional Comparisons

Anja Rohwer presents at the ECPR conference in Dublin.

Ifo Dresden

Klimapolitik zwischen Emissionsvermeidung und Anpassung
Press Release (12 March 2010)

Center for Economic Studies (CES)

After the summer break the following researchers are visiting CES in September, Marc Muendler and Jim Rauch, University of California San Diego and Steinar Strøm, University of Oslo.

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