Ifo Experts

Executive Board
Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Hans-Werner Sinn President Phone: 089 9224-1276 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/hws	Questions regarding the Institute, economic policy, contributions to the reform debate, Ifo Viewpoints
Meinhard Knoche Board Member Phone: 089 9224-1288 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/knoche-m	Questions regarding the Institute, personell and finances, Leibniz Society
Press
Dr. Jürgen Gaulke Spokesman Phone: 089 9224-1218 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/gaulke-j	Press and public relations
Annette Marquardt Phone: 089 9224-1604 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/marquardt-a	Editing, Conference Management
Business Cycle Analyses and Surveys
Prof. Dr. Kai Carstensen Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1266 Website: http://www.ifo.de/carstensen-k	Business-cycle research: methods and empirical experience, business-cycle (Germany, EU, world), labour market developments, Ifo Business Climate Index, business survey, monetary policy
Dr. Klaus Abberger Phone: 089 9224-1308 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/abberger-k	Ifo Business Climate Index, Interpretation on surveys, Survey Co-Ordinator
Dr. Steffen Henzel Phone: 089 9224-1652 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/henzel-st	Empirical Macroeconomics, Expectations, Monetary Economics, German Labor Market
Dr. Nikolay Hristov Phone: 089 9224-1225 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/hristov-n	monetary macroeconomics, global economic activity, Eurozone Economic Outlook, time series analysis
Dr. Wolfgang Nierhaus Phone: 089 9224-1304 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/nierhaus-w	inflation, price trends, forecasting methods, economic forecasts, Joint Economic Forecast of German Research Institutes, National Accounts
Wolfgang Ruppert Phone: 089 9224-1221 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/ruppert-w	business survey in construction, company pensions (Studie 2000)
Dr. Timo Wollmershäuser Phone: 089 9224-1406 Website: http://www.ifo.de/wollmershaeuser-t	financial markets, money and currencies, dynamic macroeconomics
Public Finance
Dr. Alexander Ebertz Interim Director Phone: 089 9224-1394 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/ebertz-a	Regional Economics, Public Finance
Christian Breuer Phone: 089 9224-1265 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/breuer-c	public finance (esp. taxes and revenue)
Social Policy and Labour Markets
Prof. Helmut Rainer, Ph.D. Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1607 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/rainer-h	Family Economics, Population Economics, Labour Economics
Dr. Stefan Bauernschuster Phone: 089 9224-1368 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/bauernschuster-s	Labour- and Family Economics
Herbert Hofmann Phone: 089 9224-1283 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/hofmann-h	Labour market analyses
Human Capital and Innovation
Prof. Dr. Ludger Wößmann Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1699 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/woessmann-l	Education Economics, Growth Economics, Innovation Economics, Economy History
Dr. Oliver Falck Phone: 089 9224-1370 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/falck-o	Innovation and Growth, Entrepreneurship
Industrial Organisation and New Technologies
Prof. Tobias Kretschmer, Ph.D. Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1426 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/kretschmer-t	Strategy and economics of high-technology industries, especially communications markets, introduction and diffusion of new technologies
Hildegard Arnold-Rothmaier Phone: 089 9224-1316 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/arnold-h	Transport
Matthias Balz Phone: 089 9224-1325 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/balz-m	Food industry, brewing industry, gastronomy, hotel trade, tourism, ecological agriculture, social insurance in the farming sector
Jörg Claussen Phone: 089 9224-1253 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/claussen-j	High technology industries, esp. software and telecommunications
Ludwig Dorffmeister Phone: 089 9224-1343 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/dorffmeister-l	Construction, Ifo Architects Survey, real estate, Euroconstruct
Joachim Gürtler Phone: 089 9224-1242 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/guertler-j	Editorial management of Industry Branch Reports, leasing, business survey in insurance
Hans-Dieter Karl Phone: 089 9224-1386 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/karl-h	Energy sector (electricity, water, gas), basic materials
Josef Lachner Phone: 089 9224-1690 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/lachner-j	Trade
Dr. Gernot Nerb Phone: 089 9224-1236 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/nerb-g	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 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/penzkofer-h	Innovation research, innovation survey, trade fair research
Manfred Schöpe Phone: 089 9224-1327 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/schoepe-m	Agricultural production, agricultural markets, agricultural policies
Dr. Hans-Günther Vieweg Phone: 089 9224-1362 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/vieweg-h	Capital goods industries, European industry sector research, CESifo International Conference Spring, Ifo Industry Colloquium
Energy, Environment and Exhaustible Resources
Prof. Dr. Karen Pittel Head of Departmentin Phone: 089 9224-1384 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/pittel-k	Climate, exhaustible resources
Dr. Marc Gronwald Phone: 089 9224-1400 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/gronwald-m	Environmental economics, resource economics, energy markets, oil prices, emissions trading
Dr. Tilmann Rave Phone: 089 9224-1365 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/rave-t	Environmental economics, instruments of environmental policies, corporate environmental policies, competitiveness – innovations – environmental policies
Dr. Johann Wackerbauer Phone: 089 9224-1277 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/wackerbauer-j	Environmental economics, eco-industry, water resource management, waste management, environmental policies
Dr. Markus Zimmer Phone: 089 9224-1260 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/zimmer-m	Migration, environmental economics, climate change, video lectures, media archive
International Trade
Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr, Ph.D. Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1428 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/felbermayr-g	International Trade
Dr. Erdal Yalcin Phone: 089 9224-1420 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/yalcin-e	International trade, multinational enterprises, international trade policy
International Institutional Comparisons
Prof. Panu Poutvaara, Ph.D. Head of Department Phone: 089 9224-1372 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/poutvaara-p	Migration, fiscal federalism, political economics
Dr. Wolfgang Ochel Phone: 089 9224-1243 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/ochel-w	CESifo DICE Report, institutional comparisons of labour markets, social policy, European integration
Dr. Thomas Strobel Phone: 089 9224-1465 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/strobel-t	Growth theory, productivity analysis, growth accounting
Ifo Dresden
Prof. Dr. Marcel Thum Manager Phone: 0351-26476-19 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/thum-m	Structural change, labour markets, support policies, public finance, climate and environmental policies, demographic change
Dr. Joachim Ragnitz Managing Director Phone: 0351-26476-17 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/ragnitz-j	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 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/lehmann-r	Economic activity and growth
Katrin Behm Phone: 0351-26476-12 Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/eitner-k	Press and public relations, publications, Ifo Dresden library

Ifo Experts

Executive Board

Press

Business Cycle Analyses and Surveys

Public Finance

Social Policy and Labour Markets

Human Capital and Innovation

Industrial Organisation and New Technologies

Energy, Environment and Exhaustible Resources

International Trade

International Institutional Comparisons

Ifo Dresden