iIfo Institute - Project How to Construct Europe

How to Construct Europe

Contact:

Project team:		Hans-Werner Sinn Siegfried Schönherr Wolfgang Ochel Thiess Büttner Gebhard Flaig / Frank Westermann Peter Egger / Mario Larch Martin Werding / Sonja Munz Ludgar Wößmann
Network partners:		Christian Gollier, Paul de Grauwe, Rick van der Ploeg , Kai Konrad (research professor at the Ifo Institute), John Whalley
Client:		Within the frame programme „Pact for Research and Innovation“ of the Leibniz Association
Project period:		January 2006 – December 2008, publications December 2009

Tasks:

To increase the analytical and policy advice capacities for designing future institutional terms and conditions to construct an effective, globally competitive, socially sustainable and citizen friendly Europe under a growing mobility of production factors.

Methods:

International multidisciplinary network approach
Theory-based analysis of alternative options and policy implications.

Data and other sources:

Documents and Literature, International Expert know-how.

Ergebnisse:

Bout 40 Publications: in refereed Journals
3 Book publications
5 international scientific Conferences and contributions to further 3 Conferences.

Publications:

Falck, Oliver, Christian Gollier and Ludger Wößmann (eds.), Industrial Policy for National Champions, CESifo Seminar Series, MIT Press, 2011.

Department conducting the study

IIV

ÖS

ADI

SAM