We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming German Development Economics Conference scheduled for May 23-24, 2024, and hosted by Leibniz University Hannover. We are thrilled to announce that our keynote speakers for this year's conference are Sandra Sequeira from the London School of...

Driven by the advancements in renewable energy, enhanced technology, and a burgeoning preference for eco-friendly and locally sourced power, the trajectory toward decentralized energy models seems poised to shape the future of energy systems, particularly in the realm of electricity. This shift...

Vor drei Jahren wurde das Kohle-Aus in Deutschland beschlossen. Was bedeutet das für die Braunkohleausstiegsregionen des Lausitzer, Mitteldeutschen und Rheinischen Reviers? Wie kann die weitere Prozessgestaltung und -begleitung im Strukturwandel aussehen? In den Fachworkshops der Tagung werden...

Bernhard Schlink wird am 26. Oktober bei uns zu Gast sein. An seinen Vortrag mit dem Titel „Zusammenwachsen, Weiterwachsen" schließt sich eine Diskussion mit IWH-Präsident Reint E. Gropp an. Sie können dabei vor Ort teilnehmen und Ihre Fragen stellen.

This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and...

We invite submissions addressing notably the following issues: economic and financial adjustments; economic imbalances; country issues; challenges to monetary policy and fiscal policies.

The development landscape has never been static but in these times of uncertainty and insecurity, we are witnessing ever more profound shifts in global relations, inequalities, and forms of exclusion. Dominant trajectories and paths of ‘development’ have led the world to the brink of...

Critical junctures – such as revolutions and democratic transitions – allow researchers to observe contexts in which key fundamental drivers of institutional change are varying “in real time”. This conference will bring together scholars from political economy, development economics, and...

Inflation is back, at levels not seen since the 1970s. Unlike in the 1970s, the rich microeconomic data available today provide a unique setting to test existing theories and develop new ones. The goal of this workshop is to discuss current work on micro-level price adjustment behavior and...