Halle Institute for Economic Research
The Halle Institute for Economic Research (German: Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle, abbreviated IWH) is a non-profit organization and one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany. Founded in 1992, the IWH is a member of the Leibniz Association, the German network of non-university institutes dedicated to research and advanced scholarship.
Established | 1992 |
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President | Reint E. Gropp |
Executive Board | Marcel Fratzscher, Angelica E. Röhr, Stefan Liebig, |
Faculty | Economics, Social Science |
Staff | 89 |
Budget | 7.4 million Euros (2018) |
Address | Kleine Maerkerstrasse 8 D-06108 Halle (Saale), Germany |
Location | , , Germany |
Website | www |
History
The IWH began operations on January 1, 1992 in Halle (Saale). Since then, its scholars have published in peer-reviewed journals and in working papers.
In 2012, the IWH began the Doctoral Programme in Economics (IWH-DPE), a four-year programme with two years of courses. Doctoral students develop economic foundations and are allocated to one of three research departments: Financial Markets, Macroeconomics, Structural Change and Productivity. The program is part of the Central-German Doctoral Program Economics (CGDE), a network of economic faculties in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, and Thuringia, including those at TU Dresden, Leipzig University, and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU).[1]
Former presidents of the IWH include:
- Manfred Wegner, 1992-1993
- Rüdiger Pohl, 1994-2003
- Ulrich Blum, 2004-2010
- Jutta Günther and Oliver Holtemöller, 2011-2013 (Acting Directors)
- Claudia M. Buch, 2013
- Reint E. Gropp, 2014-present
Report on the German economy
The IWH is one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany that, twice a year (in Spring and Autumn), submit a joint report on the state of the German economy, the so-called Gemeinschaftsdiagnose (Joint Economic Forecast). [2] The IWH participated in the first Forecast in spring 1993.
The other institutes are:
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), in Berlin
- Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, in Munich
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy, in Kiel
- Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), in Essen
- Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv, in Hamburg[3]
References
- "About the program". CGDE.
- German government Web site Bundesregierung Online (in German) Archived 2006-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
- The HWWA was dissolved as of December 31, 2006. Some of its work will be continued by the German National Library of Economics (HWWI).