Twice a year, the Joint Economic Forecast (JEF, "Gemeinschaftsdiagnose") brings together Germany's leading economic research institutes to prepare a consensus view on the business cycle, potential growth perspectives and appropriate policy recommendations. This globally unique exercise, dating...

Policy Research Institutes in the United States play an important role in the creation of evidence for evidence-based policymaking. This is the case with respect to their advocacy for the gathering and broad dissemination of "Big Data" and in the publication of policy analysis in the academic...

The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science Council more than a decade ago was founded on the crucial insight that sound policy advice - the traditional task of the institutes - can only be guaranteed in the long term if...

Oskar Anderson (1887-1960) gehörte zu den Gründungsvätern der Ökonometrie. Dieser Aufsatz fokussiert auf die Relevanz seines statistischen und ökonometrischen Werkes für die Konjunkturforschung in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Periode zwischen 1923 und 1942, die er...

Offen ausgetragene Lagerdebatten zwischen Ökonomen sind in Deutschland eher selten. Was hingegen häufiger in der Berichterstattung über Ökonomen mitschwingt, ist eine Zuordnung in weltanschauliche Lager, etwa nach Schemata wie arbeitgeber-/arbeitnehmernah oder auch gelegentlich...

The Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IUI) was founded in 1939. In less than ten years, IUI grew from a small survey bureau to a leading research institute focused on microeconomic research relevant to industrial development. Based on a number of new commemorative essays and...

Following World War II, the director of the social sciences division at the Rockefeller Foundation, the industrial economist Joseph H. Willits, thought it important to extend its activities to Europe, especially France. His agenda was to strengthen institutional economics and to create modern...

Das ifo Institut wurde nicht auf dem Reißbrett entworfen und neu gegründet. Es entstand im Januar 1949 durch Zusammenschluss des Süddeutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung mit der im April 1948 vom Bayerischen Statistischen Landesamt ins Leben gerufenen Informations- und...

Zwei unabhängige Wirtschaftshistoriker haben anlässlich seines 75-jährigen Bestehens die Geschichte des RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung aufgearbeitet. Sie entdeckten viele Konstanten: Schon in der Nachkriegszeit forschte das RWI in einem theoriegeprägten Umfeld vor allem...

En rikt illustrerad dokumentation av utvecklingen av Industriens Utredningsinstitut, IUI, över till IFN, Institutet för näringslivsforskning under åren 1939-2020. Boken innehåller många foton och beskrivningar av de olika forskarnas arbete. Den förra utgåvan kom 2012, och den nya är nu...

Economists, and also economic research institutes, differ in their attitudes towards desirability of economic policies. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating minority votes in the Joint Economic Forecast of German...

Economists, and also economic research institutes, differ in their attitudes towards desirability of economic policies. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating minority votes in the Joint Economic Forecast of German...

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...