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New Events :
Publications
The new "Ordnungspolitischer Kommentar" for November 2009 is now available (in German only). This month Christian Vossler emphasizes that solidarity within a society should always be reciprocal. This principle is undermined by the latest reform of the German social security system.. (pdf-version).

 

 

The new Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 2/2009 is now available.

(German language periodical - only abstracts of articles available in English)

You may also download here (in German only) a paper by Johann Eekhoff, Guido Raddatz and Anne Zimmermann on a reform model of the German health insurance system (joint publishing by Stiftung Marktwirtschaft and the Otto-Wolff-Institut für Wirtschaftsordnung).

Job vacancies: there are currently no job vacancies at the Institute for Economic Policy. Click here for more information in German.

In 2008, three new Discussion Papers 2008/1, 2008/2 and 2008/3 have been published and can be downloaded. The discussion paper 2/2008 is written in English an is titled: "Real Effective Exchange Rate Uncertainty, Threshold Effects, and Aggregate Investment – Evidence from Latin American Countries".

(Check also here for earlier issues and more English language Discussion Papers).

If you are interested in one of the Discussion Papers that cannot be downloaded, please contact Mrs. Dagmar Rickmeyer.

In our series Schriften zur Wirtschaftspolitik the most recent book that has been published (German language only) is on globalisation and its critics. Juergen B. Donges, Kai Menzel and Philipp Paulus: "Globalisierungskritik auf dem Prüfstand - ein Almanach aus ökonomischer Sicht".

The actual publication U135 of our series Untersuchungen zur Wirtschaftspolitik by Philipp Paulus is titled "Monetary Union Impact on Government Debt".

Teaching Activities - Summer term 2009 

Steffen J. Roth

lecture


Einführung in die VWL

(Leistungsnachweise nur für Wirtschaftsjuristen!) Mo, 10.00-11.30 Uhr in Hörsaal E

Steffen J. Roth

lecture

Ordnungspolitik

("Spezielle Wirtschaftspolitik" 1331)

Do, 12.00 - 13.30 Uhr in XXIV


Susanna Kochskämper u. a.

excercises

Übung zur Vorlesung Ordnungspolitik

Mi, 14.00 - 15.30 Uhr in VII b (ab 29.04.09)

 

Events

The Institutskolloquium is a (mostly German language) series of presentations by guest economists. There will be new presentations in the summer term
2009 (to be announced here).

For an overview of the earlier events (in German), click here .

Service
The Institute has a new email address: iwp@wiso.uni-koeln.de

If you have any questions or need information from the Institute, you can send us an email.

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