Research Professor in the department Business Cycle Analyses and Surveys of the Ifo Institute
Fellow of the CESifo Research Network
Phone: +49(0)89/2180-2956 Fax: +49(0)89/397303
Prof. Gebhard Flaig was head of Ifo’s Department for Business Cycle Analyses and Financial Markets from 2003 to 2007 and was involved in numerous projects, including his participation in the Joint Economic Analysis of German research institutes. Since 2007 he has been Ifo research professor and is currently collaborating in a project on the influence of labour market institutions on labour market developments. He is also supervising the dissertations of several department staff members.
Labour Market Performance and Labour Market Institutions (Arbeitsmarktentwicklung und Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen), Department Social Policy and Labour Markets
Determinants of German Sectoral Productivity Growth – New Data, New Methods and New Comparisons (German Research Foundation, DFG), Department International Institutional Comparisons
Flaig, Gebhard (with Horst Rottmann), "Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (1), 2009, 22-35
Flaig, Gebhard (with Horst Rottmann), "Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth. An International Comparison", CESifo Working Paper No. 2175, 2007 ( Download / Abstract )
Flaig, Gebhard (with Timo Wollmershäuser), "Does the Euro-zone Diverge? A Stress Indicator for Analyzing Trends and Cycles in Real GDP and Inflation", CESifo Working Paper No. 1937, 2007 ( Download / Abstract )
Flaig, Gebhard (with Jan-Egbert Sturm and Ulrich Woitek), "Synchronization of National Business Cycles in Europe?", in: Gian Luigi Mazzi and Giovanni Savio (eds.): Growth and Cycle in the Eurozone, 2007, 160-171
Flaig, Gebhard (with Timo Wollmershäuser), "Does the Euro-zone Diverge? A Stress Indicator for Analyzing Trends and Cycles in Real GDP and Inflation", in: Wolfgang Franz, Hans-Jürgen Ramser and Manfred Stadler (eds.): Dynamik internationaler Märkte, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2007, 15-41
Flaig, Gebhard (with Klaus Abberger and Wolfgang Nierhaus) (eds.), ifo Konjunkturumfragen und Konjunkturanalyse: ausgewählte methodische Aufsätze aus dem ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Forschungsbericht 33, ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, München, 2007 ( Abstract )
Flaig, Gebhard (with Wolfgang Nierhaus, Ina Becker, Steffen Henzel, Oliver Hülsewig, Erich Langmantel, Johannes Mayr, Wolfgang Meister, Monika Ruschinski, Dirk Ulbricht and Timo Wollmershäuser), „ifo Konjunkturprognose 2007/2008: Aufschwung mit niedrigerem Tempo“, ifo Schnelldienst 12, 2007, 08-53 ( Abstract )