The subject of our November teleconference will be the U.S. Regional Outlook, hosted by Economy.com Managing Director, Dr. Steven Cochrane. The teleconference will begin on Thursday, November 18, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. EST. An accompanying PowerPoint slide presentation will be made available. Each...

Die Industrietagung ist die institutionalisierte Zusammenarbeit des DIW Berlin mit der Wirtschaft. Rund einhundert Repräsentanten aus Unternehmen, Wirtschaftsverbänden und Wissenschaft nehmen regelmäßig teil. Die Industrietagung befasst sich mit der kurzfristigen Entwicklung der deutschen...

• Alternatives to the new consensus approach to macroeconomics • Theories of monetary policy and monetary policies of the ECB • Theories of fiscal policies and fiscal policies in the EMU • Theories of wage policies and wage policies in the EMU • The Maastricht Regime and its effects on...

The subject of our October teleconference will be the U.S. Macro Outlook, hosted by Economy.com Chief Economist Dr. Mark Zandi. The teleconference will begin on Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. EDT. An accompanying PowerPoint slide presentation will be made available. Each Economy.com...

Can Slovenia sharpen its competitive edge? Despite healthy growth, the business community expects the new government to markedly improve Slovenian competitiveness and remove obstacles to doing business. But will the new government rise to the challenge? Slovenia isn’t looking as attractive as...

The goal of this conference is to present and discuss recent developments in the use of quantitative structural models to simulate and evaluate alternative monetary and fiscal policies. The conference will emphasize models with optimizing foundations that are parameterized to match features of...

The subject of our September teleconference will be the U.S. Global Outlook, hosted by Economy.com Economist Tanweer Akram. The teleconference will begin on Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. EDT. An accompanying PowerPoint slide presentation will be made available. Each Economy.com...

Purpose: The purpose of the ZEI - Summer School is to bring together young economists for a series of lectures covering the current frontiers of research in their area of interest and to create an opportunity for stimulating discussions and presentation of their own research to a group of...

The conference work is organized in the following six workshops: 1. Macroeconomic policy (monetary and fiscal policy) 2. International economic policy 3. Labor and social policy 4. Regional policy 5. Sectoral economic policy 6. Microeconomic policy or entrepreneurship policy