June 18th, 2008 Do bad management practices cause a fall in overall production? Can that effect be observed worldwide? How does one even observe it at all? These are just a few of the questions addressed at DIW Berlin’s Lunchtime Meeting on June 18th 2008 with Dr. Christos Genakos. Dr. Genakos, Lecutrer, Fellow, and Director of Studies in Economics at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, presented ...
On February 22 2008 the collaborative research project “FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, EFFICIENCY AND STIMULATION OF SUSTAINABLE GROWH” (FINESS) was launched with a kick-off meeting at DIW Berlin. The project is funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission within the Activity 8.1 “Growth, Employment and Competitiveness in a Knowledge Society – The European Case”. ...
Gert G. Wagner was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Germany’s President Horst Koehler on February 8th, 2008. Wagner is Professor of Economics at the Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) and Faculty Member of the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and the International Max Planck Research School LIFE. Since 1989, he has been responsible ...
DIW DC provides platform for research, policy advice and networkingA new economic research institute, DIW DC, is now operating in Washington. The company in the nation’s capital is a non-profit, independent research organization involved in socio-economic educational and research activities and policy advice. It provides U.S. policymakers with economic expertise on Germany and Europe while promoting ...
In the context of the major caveat of high uncertainty, we forecast the economic expansion in the Euro Area to remain strong in the second half of 2007 bringing growth for the full year to 2.7 per cent and we expect it to slow moderately in 2008 and 2009 to around 2 ¼ per cent.
In future, DIW Berlin will be represented in the biennial Tax Estimate Study Group by financial expert Holger Bonin. The new tax estimator is one of the leading experts in the estimation of fiscal sustainability using generational accounting. In his academic work, Holger Bonin devotes himself to the empirical study of matters of current economic policy. Among other things, he has studied the long-term ...
The EUROFRAME – European Forecasting Network comprises ten of the most respected economic forecasting and research institutes in Europe, including DIW Berlin. On behalf of the European Commission, it produces bi-annual reports on the Euro Area covering economic forecasts, regular policy monitoring and special policy topics.
The Head of the “Energy, Transportation, Environment” Department at DIW Berlin and Professor of Environmental Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, has been appointed as a member of the “High Level Group on Energy” of the EU Commission. The President of the EU Commission, José Manuel Barroso, has been able to find well-known experts ...