The researchers in the department International Economic Policy, Financial and Real Estate Markets deal with current issues of international economic and monetary policy, examine the economic significance of financial markets and real estate markets, and address questions of European integration and international trade policy. The researchers get involved in economic policy debates, be it the discussion on rent control and housing shortages, on the future of the WTO and how to deal with China, or on the ECB's interest rate policy and the Stability and Growth Pact.
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Dr. Berthold Busch
Senior Economist for European Integration
Tel: +49 221 4981-762 Mail: busch
Dr. Markus Demary
Senior Economist for Monetary Policy and the Economics of Financial Markets
Tel: +49 221 4981-732 Mail: demary
Dr. Philipp Deschermeier
Senior Economist for Real Estate Economics and Demographics
Tel: +49 221 4981-720 Mail: deschermeier
Dr. Ralph Henger
Senior Economist for Housing Policy and Real Estate Economics and Head of Fin.Connect.NRW
Tel: +49 221 4981-744 Mail: henger
Prof. Dr. Galina Kolev-Schaefer
Senior Economist for Trade Policy and Foreign Economic Activity
Tel: +49 221 4981-774 Mail: kolev
Gero Kunath
Economist for China, emerging markets and securing skilled labor
Tel: +49 221 4981-568 Mail: Kunath
Jürgen Matthes
Head of International Economic Policy, Financial and Real Estate Markets Research Unit
Tel: +49 221 4981-754 Mail: matthes
Dr. Christian Oberst
Senior Economist for Real Estate Markets and Regional Economics
Tel: +49 221 4981-889 Mail: oberstPelin Öztopçu
Consultant for the Fin.Connect.NRW Project
Tel: +49 221 4981-764 Mail: Oeztopcu
Dr. Pekka Sagner
Economist for Housing Policy and Real Estate Economics
Tel: +49 221 4981-881 Mail: sagner
Dr. Samina Sultan
Senior Economist for European Economic Policy and Trade
Tel: +49 221 4981-312 Mail: Sultan
Niklas Florian Taft
Economist for monetary policy and financial markets
Tel: +49 221 4981-549 Mail: Taft
Prof. Dr. Michael Voigtländer
Head of International Economic Policy, Financial and Real Estate Markets Research Unit
Tel: +49 221 4981-741 Mail: voigtlaender
Laurens Wünsch
Economist for financial and real estate markets
Tel: +49 221 4981-429 Mail: WuenschAll news
Critical Choices: How Malaysia and Germany can Navigate Shifting Energy Geostrategy
Malaysia and Germany, as constructive and reliable participants in globally interdependent energy (as well as trade and financial) markets, face an increasingly hostile, volatile, and uncertain environment surrounding energy choices.
Fiscal Effects of Having Children
The fiscal effects of children are relevant to various areas of policymaking.
Expert Workshop on the Industrial Accelerator Act
The German Economic Institute (IW) and Frontier Economics are pleased to invite you to a rapporteur & stakeholder workshop on the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) in Brussels.
Universal entitlement, unequal provision: childcare in segregated German cities
One mechanism driving persistent inequalities in childcare provision, despite rising investments and a substantial expansion of childcare facilities, may consist in the locational choices of providers, who eschew poorer neighbourhoods.
A Comparison of Public Revenues Across the Federal States
To ensure equivalent living conditions, the federal government influences the revenues of the states and municipalities. Under the fiscal equalization system, financially weak states receive surpluses in the distribution of sales tax revenues, while financially strong states must accept shortfalls.
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