CES History Time Table

Chronology of Events

1961	Hans Möller founds the "Economics Faculty Colloquium", a weekly seminar with international visitors.
May 1988	Dr. Zimmermann of the Bavarian Ministry for Education suggests the possibility of founding a research institute.
Autumn 1988	First draft of an outline for the foundation of a new type of research institute at the University of Munich, in close collaboration with the faculty of economics (esp. Edwin von Böventer, Otto Gandenberger, Utta Gruber and Hans Möller).
4-8 September 1989	Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), about 700 participants with 400 papers presented.
18 January 1991	The Center for Economic Studies is officially founded as an independent institute of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Munich.
4 April 1991	First issue of CES Journal
May/June 1991	The first visitors arrive, among them David Bradford, Richard Musgrave, Jürg Niehans and David Wildasin. The first step has been made.
May/June 1991	First CES Working Paper by Richard Musgrave: "Social Contract, Taxation and the Standing of Deadweight Loss".
11 June 1992	Symposium on German Unification.
11-13 June 1992	Trans Atlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES) with NBER, Cambridge, Mass.
November 1992	CES moves into its new building in Schackstrasse 4.
April/May 1993	Significant CES enlargement: dynamic formula for visitors' budget, guest apartments in the university guest house (IBZ).
9 June 1993	Official Inauguration of CES by Hans Zehetmair, Bavarian minister of education, culture, science and the arts. Lectures by Richard Musgrave, Martin Beckmann and Agnar Sandmo. In connection with this event the first formal meeting of the CES Council takes place. The council meets once a year. It elects the "Distinguished CES Fellow" who gives the Munich Lectures in Economics, and determines the annual visitors' programme.
10 November 1993	CES starts offering courses in the new graduate program for doctoral studies of the faculty of economics. The annual number of long-term visitors increases by about 50% and approximates 30. The annual number of lecture courses about doubles and approximates 18.
17 January 1994	Edwin von Böventer, who contributed greatly to the establishment and development of CES, passed away unexpectedly.
1 September 1994	CES becomes a partner in Economic Policy, Europe's largest scientific journal in the field. Hans-Werner Sinn joins the board of senior editors and nominates Klaus F. Zimmermann of the faculty of economics as managing editor. Ray Rees becomes member of the Board of Governors.
13-15 December 1994	The first "Munich Lectures in Economics" are given by Avinash Dixit, the Distinguished CES Fellow 1994 titled "Economic Policies and the Political Process". At the same time the Alumni-Club of the faculty of economics is founded with the support of CES. The second Council meeting takes place.
April 1995	First issue of Economic Policy with CES participation.
31 October - 2 November 1995	Conference in Tutzing on: "Competition or Harmonization? - Fiscal Policy, Regulation, and Standards", organized jointly by CES and the Department of Economics, University of Oslo.
28-30 November 1995	Munich Lectures in Economics 1995 hold by the Distinguished CES Fellow 1995 Anthony Atkinson titled "The Economics of Rolling Back the Welfare State".
January 1996	CES on internet: information on events at the institute is published online.
June 1996	CES opens a book series with MIT Press which is to publish the Munich Lectures. Avinash Dixit's "Economic Policy and the Political Process" appears as the first issue of this series.
26-28 November 1996	Munich Lectures in Economics hold by the Distinguished CES Fellow 1996 Jean Tirole titled "New Paradigms in the Regulation of Telecommunications" .
16 December 1996	Hans Möller passed away. Möller founded the weekly Faculty Colloquium with international visitors which was the forerunner of CES and was an active member of the CES council.
January 1997	Joseph Stiglitz, MIT, re-joins the CES council after leaving the Council of Economic Advisors. Klaus Schmidt, University of Munich, is welcomed as a new member of the CES council.
25 November 1997	Paul Krugman, MIT, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 1997 and hold the Munich Lectures 1997 "Making sense of Globalization".
June 1998	Bernd Huber, Klaus Schmidt, Ray Rees become Programme directors for the visiting scholars
June 1998	CES Video Lectures open with video-on-demand version of Buchanan and Musgrave Symposium on the internet
17-19 November 1998	Rudi Dornbusch, MIT, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 1998.The Munich Lectures 1998 "International Financial Crises"
January 1999	On the management level of CES, Alfons Weichenrieder and Martina Grass take over from Helge Berger and Holger Feist who now have management responsibilities at CESifo
February 1999	Hans-Werner Sinn becomes president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research
March 1999	Foundation of the CESifo GmbH, a joint initiative of LMU and Ifo Institute
April 1999	The CES working paper series is renamed the "CESifo Working Paper Series", and now also invites working papers from CESifo network members
16-18 November 1999	Guido Tabellini, IGIER, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 1999 and hold the Munich Lectures 1998 "Fiscal Policy in Representative Democracies".
14 September 2000	Inaugural meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Ifo Institute and CESifo, Chairman David F. Bradford
14-16 November 2000	Peter A. Diamond, MIT, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2000 and hold the Munich Lectures 1998 "Taxation, Incomplete Markets and Social Security".
12-13 January 2001	Celebration of Richard Musgrave’s 90th and CES’s 10th birthday. The conference "Public Finances and Public Policy in the New Millennium is hold. Richard Musgrave is given a honorary doctoral degree by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Munich
March 2001	On the management level Ulrich Hange succeeds Alfons Weichenrieder in the position of the CES Academic Coordinator
April 2001	CESifo Working Paper Series enters the Social Science Research Network
May 2001	Gerhard Illing becomes a new member of the CES Programme Directors
14-16 November 2001	Oliver Hart, Harvard University, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2001 and hold the Munich Lectures 2001 "Firms versus Markets".
June 2002	Ifo Institute becomes an institute "at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität" (University of Munich)
19-21 November 2002	Nicholas H. Stern, HM Treasury, Second Permanent Secretary and Managing Director, Budget and Public Finance former World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2001 and hold the Munich Lectures 2001 "Dynamic Development: Innovation and Inclusion".
August 2003	On the management level Silke Uebelmesser becomes CES Academic Coordinator succeeding Ulrich Hange who is now managing director at CESifo
18-20 November 2003	James Poterba, MIT Department of Economics, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2003 and hold the Munich Lectures 2003 "Government Policy and Private Retirement Saving".
16-18 November 2004	Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2004 and hold the Munich Lectures 2004 "The Marketplace of Ideas".
November 2004	On the management level Rajshri Jayaraman becomes CES Academic Coordinator succeeding Silke Uebelmesser
November 2004	The CES Council is reorganised, the area coordinators of the CESifo research networks became members of the Council.
22 February 2005	David Bradford passed away. He was a great economist, and one of the heroes of public finance. He was a longtime member of the CES Advisory Council, and from 1999 he served as Head of the Ifo and CESifo Scientific Advisory Council. David Bradfrod did a great deal for CES, the Ifo Institute and CESifo.
15-17 November 2005	Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2005 and hold the Munich Lectures 2005 "Happiness Research: A Revolution in Economics".
14-16 November 2006	Alberto Alesina, Harvard University, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2006 and hold the Munich Lectures 2006 "On the Choice of Institutions".
15 January 2007	Richard Mausgrave passed away at the age of 96. One of the great economists and thinkers of the post-war era, Richard Musgrave is credited as one of the true pioneers and scholars in modern public economics. He advised several US governments, was honorary president of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) and helped found the Center for Economic Studies and the CESifo Research Network. The University of Munich granted him an honorary doctorate. He served on the CES Scientific Advisory Council until his death.
May 2007	On the management level Doina Radulescu becomes CES Academic Coordinator succeeding Rajshri Jayaraman
13-15 November 2007	Philippe Aghion, Harvard University, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2007 and hold the Munich Lectures 2007 "Governance and Growth".
25 April 2008	For the sixtieth birthday of Hans-Werner Sinn, the LMU Economics Faculty and the Ifo Institute hosted an international conference devoted to current economic-policy issues under the topic “Economic Policy in the presence of Globalisation”. Numerous renowned economists, including Nobel laureates James J. Heckman and Sir James A. Mirrlees, were attending.
18 November 2008	Olivier Blanchard, IMF and MIT, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2008 and hold the Munich Lectures 2008 "The world financial and economic crisis".
25 May 2009	Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley, the first winner of the Richard Musgrave Professorship instituted by IIPF and the CESifo Group Munich, gave the first Richard Musgrave Lecture at LMU Munich, "Public Finance in Practice and Theory".
October 2009	On the management level Florian Buck becomes CES Academic Coordinator succeeding Doina Radulescu
17-19 November 2009	Robin Boadway, Queen's University, Canada, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2009 and hold the Munich Lectures 2009 "From Optimal Tax Theory to Tax Policy: Retrospective and Prospective Views".
7 July 2010	Michael Keen, International Monetary Fund IMF, the 2010 winner of the Richard Musgrave Professorship instituted by IIPF and the CESifo Group Munich, gave the Richard Musgrave Lecture 2010 at LMU Munich, "Taxing and Regulating the Financial Sector".
16-18 November 2010	Richard Blundell, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2010 and hold the Munich Lectures 2010 "Empirical Evidence and Tax Reform: Lessons from the Mirrlees Review".
8 April 2011	Timothy Besley, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the 2011 winner of the Richard Musgrave Professorship instituted by IIPF and the CESifo Group Munich, gave the Richard Musgrave Lecture 2011 at LMU Munich, "Some Principles of Public Organization".
November 2011	Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich, is director of the new research a rea "Behavioural Economics" of the CESifo network and hence a new member of the CES scientific council.
15-17 November 2011	Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge, UK, is awarded the Distinguished CES Fellow Prize 2011 and hold the Munich Lectures 2011 "Time and the Generations".