ifo Media Center
The ifo Institute invites you to participate in the discussion of interesting economic topics via the Internet. In our ifo Media Center a whole series of remarkable events are available and can be viewed in full length. We also record selected speeches and presentations given by employees or at events and make them available in our Media Center.
Prof. Dr. Ludger Wößmann
Director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education
Katrin Behm
Research Assistant
Jasmin Eibl
Editorial Assistant
Jasmin Nothhaft
Survey Assistant
Dr. Klaus Wohlrabe
Deputy Director of the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys and Head of Surveys
Vera Baier
Press and Public Relations Assistant
Tina Lange
Human Resources Administrator
Heike Müller
Financial Accountancy Staff
Romy Vinogradova
Multimedia Specialist
Elke Nipkow-Sindram
System and Network Administrator
Dr. Anna Wolf
Specialist
ifo Viewpoint No. 203: Tax-Cut Time for Germany?
ifo President Clemens Fuest is in favor of reducing corporate taxes in the current ifo Viewpoint.
ifo Viewpoint No. 202: Germany’s new industrial policy
By laying out his national industry strategy 2030, German Federal Economy Minister Peter Altmaier has kickstarted an important debate. How is Germany’s future as an industrial location to be secured? Many see technological change, US dominance in digitalization, and China’s ascendency as a threat to traditional industrial countries like Germany. Is a new national industrial policy the right reaction? There are three fundamental problems with industrial policy. First, politicians know no more than private investors about which technologies will win out in the future. Second, they tend to be worse than the private sector at terminating failed projects in good time. And third, there is the danger that long-established, politically well-connected companies will abuse industrial policy in order to secure privileges at the expense of competitors, taxpayers, and consumers.
ifo World Economic Survey (2019q1)
10.7805/ebdc-wes-2019q1
EBDC Business Investment Panel (2018)
10.7805/ebdc-bip-2018
ifo Investment Survey Industry (2017)
10.7805/ebdc-ivs-ind-2017
ifo Viewpoint No. 201: Creating a Shareholder Culture and the Germans’ Treasure
With his proposal to promote equity-based saving, the German conservative politician Friedrich Merz has placed an important topic on the agenda. Germans are busy saving, but a large part of it ends up in their savings accounts. In times of zero interest this is not a good investment. Demographic ageing means that payas-you-go pensions are falling. The resulting pension shortfall is pretty hard to fill with savings at zero interest rates. Shares offer a higher yield in the medium term.
Personnel Manager Survey (2018)
10.7805/ebdc-ipms-2018
ifo Business Survey Industry (2018b)
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-ind-2018b
ifo World Economic Survey (2018q4)
10.7805/ebdc-wes-2018q4
