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ifo Business Climate in Eastern Germany

The ifo Business Climate in Eastern Germany is based on ca. 1,200 monthly survey responses of firms in manufacturing, construction, wholesaling and retailing.

ifoCAST Forecast

Bi-monthly, ifoCAST presents an assessment of the development of Germany’s current GDP growth and highlights changes in the forecast against the background of new information.

ifo Economic Forecast Eastern Germany and Saxony

The monitoring of economic activity has been one of the main tasks of io Dresden since its founding in 1993. In recent years a system for economic forecasting has been developed using data from the ifo Business Survey in Eastern Germany and Saxony.

ifo Business Climate Index for Saxony

Regional Evaluation for Saxony with ifo Business Climate for Industry and Trade for Saxony, ifo Employment Barometer for Saxony and ifo Business Climate for Saxony by Sector.

ifo Education Survey

The ifo Education Survey was developed by the ifo Center for the Economics of Education as part of the project “The political economy of education policy: Insights from an opinion survey” funded by the Leibniz Association. The ifo Education Survey is based on an annual public opinion survey of over 5,500 individuals who constitute a representative sample of Germany’s adult population.

ifo HR Survey

In the ifo Institute's HR -survey, around 1,000 HR managers in German HR departments are asked about current topics concerning HR policy. A special focus lies on the analysis of flexibilization instruments. The panel includes companies from the manufacturing, wholesale, retail and service sectors.

ifo and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Economists Panel

Every two months the ifo Institute and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Economists Panel surveys a representative group of economics professors at German universities on current economic policy issues. The panel aims to offer the public a differentiated perspective on how economists see the key challenges facing Germany in the present and the future. The survey results are regularly published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Economic Experts Survey (EES)

The Economic Experts Survey (EES) is a quarterly survey of economic experts worldwide. The EES captures their assessment of the current economic policy and political performance as well as of special questions in their countries. The survey is jointly conducted by the ifo Institute and the Institute for Swiss Economic Policy.

GAME-LIGHTS – the gridded Meteorological Events and Night Light Emission Database

The GAME-LIGHTS database is a grid cell-level database covering a rich collection of variables for all counties worldwide from 1992 to 2013. The dataset collects information on meteorological events from primary information and translates them into weather anomalies on a 0.5° x 0.5° cell-level basis. GAME-LIGHTS covers storms, extreme temperature events, torrential rain and droughts on a yearly basis. It also adds information on night-time light emissions data and population data on the grid cell level.

The data provide a unique dataset for economic analysis as it contains variation which is presumably exogenous to economic outcomes. The service of GAME-LIGHTS is to provide the data in a structured way.