ifo Industry Colloquium 2016
Project period: January 2016 - December 2016
Research Areas:
Tasks
The “ifo Industry Colloquium”, organised in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria, focuses on analysing current economic trends.
Methods
Four parallel sessions on “Manufacturing” and “Commerce”, as well as on “Construction” and “Services” were held. In each session, the respective sector analysis and forecasts were presented by ifo industry experts, followed by a discussion of major industry-related structural changes.
Data and other sources
Among others:
Branchen special reports
ifo Business Survey
ifo Economic Forecast
Joint Economic Forecast
Results
This year’s focus was on the structural changes triggered by increased asylum seeker immigration to Germany.
Publication
Vieweg, Hans-Günter, Hans-Dieter Karl, Michael Ebnet, Gülsüm Orhan, Ludwig Dorffmeister, Matijas Kocijan, Gernot Nerb and Przemyslaw Wojciechowski, "ifo Branchen-Dialog 2016", ifo Schnelldienst 69 (23), 2016, 34–51 | PDF Download