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.
ifo Investment Survey Industry (2021)
10.7805/ebdc-ivs-ind-2021
ifo Business Survey Construction (2021b)
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-con-2021b
ifo Business Survey Service (2021b)
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-serv-2021b
ifo Business Survey Trade (2021b)
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-tra-2021b
Aaron Günther
Junior Economist and Doctoral Student
Philipp Heil
Junior Economist and Doctoral Student
Susanne Blind
Financial Accountancy Staff
Sabine Dehof
ifo Viewpoint 232: Economic Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lessons for Future Crises: Results from Economic Research
In addition to the damage to health, the Covid-19 pandemic caused tremendous economic costs. What can be learned from an analysis of the economic consequences and of crisis management in politics and in society? Extensive research is now available on this, although it mainly relates to the earlier phase of the pandemic: essentially experience and data from 2020. Various lessons emerge for dealing with future pandemics. The most important concerns the question of whether there is a trade-off between protecting health on the one hand and limiting economic costs on the other.
GAME-LIGHTS – the gridded Meteorological Events and Night Light Emission Database
ifo Viewpoint 231: Advice from Across the Ocean
It is not surprising that German politics is attracting much international interest. Germany is the largest economy in the EU, and the country has overcome the Covid crisis with some success. Above all, it is striking that German politics is characterized by moderation. Germany held an election in which moderate parties won an overwhelming majority. Populists from the right and left were able to score points at most in the new federal states, otherwise they did not play a major role.
ifo Viewpoint 230: A Business Plan for a Digital and Green Transformation
Negotiations for a traffic light coalition in Germany have begun in a good atmosphere, but they will still be difficult. This is especially true for fiscal policy. Here, the task is something like squaring the circle. The green and digital transformation requires considerable private investment in addition to public investment, and the former will hardly take place without substantial tax incentives. Tax relief on investment is also important to support the increasingly fragile economic recovery. At the same time, the debt brake narrows the scope for public borrowing.
Lara Zarges
Junior Economist and Doctoral Student
Albert Landsberger
Junior Economist and Doctoral Student
Timo Wochner
Junior Economist and Doctoral Student
Gerome Wolf
Junior Economist and Doctoral Student
ifo Viewpoint 229: The New German Government’s Economic Policy: Tackling National Tasks, Not Neglecting European and Global Challenges
Regardless of which coalition wins out in the end: Germany needs a government that is capable of tackling major economic and political challenges. These challenges are broader than the issues that dominated the election campaign. The economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis, demographic change, climate change, digitalization, European integration, and geopolitical change require decisive action and a willingness to change.
ifo Viewpoint 228: The Merkel Era: A Review of Budgetary and Fiscal Policy
The budgetary and fiscal policy record of the Merkel era contains both light and shade. The greatest success is that the stability of Germany’s public finances has suffered less during this period than in other countries, despite the fact that the economy had to weather the two deepest economic crises since the Second World War – the global financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.
Stella Canessa
Junior Economist and Doctoral Student
Pia Heckl, Ph.D.
Economist
