2019 A n n u a l R e p o r t Presented at the 71st ifo Annual Meeting on June 18, 2020 Published in 2020 for the ifo Institute Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Postbox 860460, 81631 Munich, Germany Phone: +49/(0)89/9224-0, Fax: +49/(0)89/985369 Internet: http://www.ifo.de; email:
[email protected] ISSN: 2194-928X Editor: Marga Jennewein Printing: ifo Institute ifo Annual Report 2019 Page The Goals and Tasks of the ifo Institute . 7 Report of the Executive Board . 10 Research and Service Departments ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy . 21 ifo Center for Labor and Demographic Economics . 25 ifo Center for the Economics of Education . 27 ifo Center for Industrial Organization and New Technologies . 37 ifo Center for Energy, Climate, and Resources . 48 ifo Center for International Economics . 57 ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys . 60 ifo Center for International Institutional Comparisons and Migration Research . 75 ifo Center of Excellence for Migration and Integration Research – CEMIR . 80 Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy . 81 Library . 87 Communications . 88 Dresden Branch . 97 Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research – CESifo GmbH . 109 Conferences, Publications, and External Relations of the ifo Institute . 114 Personnel, Finances, and Organizational Bodies Personnel Development . 119 Financial Development . 125 Organization Chart of the ifo Institute . 127 ifo Annual Report 2019 3 The ifo Institute 2019 The Goals and Tasks of the ifo Institute Information and research: Since its foundation in Jan- In the context of this topic, the ifo Institute deals with uary 1949, ifo has provided both information and re- the following fi ve fi elds of research: search, hence its name ifo = Information and Forschung 1.