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► The Kiel Institute Among Top International Think Tank The internationally renowned “Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program” of the University of Pennsylvania has just released its new Think Tank Index. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy ranks 17th among the non-American think tanks. Among the International Economic Policy Think Tanks it ranks 7 worldwide. For more information please click here.
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Economic Policy Center
The Economic Policy Center manages and conducts the Institute's economic policy advisory activities, which are closely related to the research at Kiel Institute und its national and international partners. The advisory services of the Institute include: In order to assure independence and quality control of research and methods, all results stemming from our advisory services are open to the public. 
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► For the first time ever, corruption has been analysed empirically on a microeconomic level. On Ökonomenstimme.org Donato de Rosa, Nishaal Gooroochurn und Holger Görg present a study (De Rosa et al., 2010) in which they look at the effect of corruption on firm productivity in 27 emerging market economies in middle and eastern Europe as well as in the former Soviet Union. They conclude that corruption only promises productivity gains for single firms in countries with a stable legal framework. All in all however, corruption impairs firms’ productivity as it misallocates scarce resources. (August 30, 2010) more ... ► Germany is not suffering a wage problem nor a productivity problem. This is what IfW-researcher Henning Klodt in his recent post on ZEIT ONLINE answers back to what Heiner Flassbeck and Friedericke Spieker reasoned there ago. Labour market restructuring is not hindering growth but if accompanied by proper qualification – offers good preconditions for shifting growth dynamics from export industries to business-oriented service industries (July 27, 2010) . more … ► IfW web contributions
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"The Crisis and Beyond" The recent financial and economic crisis has been recognized as a major challenge not only for the world economy, but also for economic research and economic policy advice. Over the past months, economists working at or visiting the Kiel Institute have prepared a number of essays on several aspects of the crisis and on its potential long-term consequences. These essays are now collected in our e-book in a condensed and easily accessible manner. The editors and authors hope that the book will initiate a lively debate among researchers and policy makers who share a common interest in preventing another such crisis to occur in the future. more...
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