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.

The purpose of the Workshop is to focus on specific challenges around measuring performance in education and other public services sectors. The Workshop will bring together scholars from various disciplines and fields to debate the present and future challenges in education and public sector...

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...

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...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics.

This yearly conference serves as a meeting point for development economists active in the Nordic countries, but is also targeted more generally to academic researchers in Europe and beyond with a special aim to provide an arena for junior scholars to present their work. The conference is open...