While the resources of time and money devoted to economic forecasting experienced a considerable increase over the last decades, accuracy of these forecasts seems to have hardly improved. What are the consequences for future economic forecasting? The conference looks for answers in three...

This two-day conference brings together experts in the field of monetary and financial integration in order to discuss current developments in East Asian financial markets and the prospects of regional financial and exchange rate co-operation. Sessions will be held on “Exchange Rate Policies...

Topics to be analysed in presentations include (but are not restricted to): - Political economy models of conflict - The effect of conflict on economic activity - The potential role of globalization in fostering a more peaceful or more violent world - The relationships between development and...

Multinational companies (MNCs) increasingly attempt to leverage organisational practices (behavioural routines / activities of stakeholders) across their international subsidiaries in order to improve the worldwide use of their organisational skills as an important source of competitive...

Sind die Deutschen nun „Spendenweltmeister“ oder engagieren sie sich in diesem Feld eher zurückhaltend? Obwohl aus unterschiedlichen Erhebungen und Untersuchungen Angaben zum Spendenverhalten der Bürger präsentiert werden, mangelt es in Deutschland noch immer an gesicherten Daten, die...

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...

Relevant topics include issues such as • The role of the Euro in a changing international environment • The viability of the US current account deficit • Multilateral exchange rate regimes and policy coordination • Financial and exchange rate crises • Re-regionalization: the role of...

The new “new economy” involves not only novel information, but it is also characterized by increased spatial and functional fragmentations of the value-added chains. On the one hand they may give rise to information failures and problems of uncertainty which require the development of new...

The conference will focus on issues related to risk measurement and systemic risks from a central bank perspective. Special emphasis will be devoted to questions relating to sources and consequences of financial contagion and its relation to other forms of systemic risk, macro stress testing,...