2017 A n n u a l R e p o r t Presented at the 69th ifo Annual Meeting on 28 June 2018 Published in 2018 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.cesifo-group.de; email:
[email protected] ISSN: 2194-928X Editor: Marga Jennewein Translations: Lisa Giani Contini Printing: ifo Institute ifo Annual Report 2017 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 . 23 ifo Center for Labour and Demographic Economics . 27 ifo Center for the Economics of Education . 31 ifo Center for Industrial Organisation and New Technologies . 43 ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Exhaustible Resources . 55 ifo Center for International Economics . 62 ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys . 72 ifo Center for International Institutional Comparisons and Migration Research . 85 ifo Center of Excellence for Migration and Integration Research – CEMIR . 89 Research Group Taxation an Fiscal Policy . 90 Library . 94 Press, Publications, Conferences . 95 Dresden Branch . 105 Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research – CESifo GmbH . 117 Conferences, Publications and External Relations of the ifo Institute . 123 Personnel, Finances and Organisational Bodies Personnel Development . 129 Financial Development . 135 Organisation of the ifo Institute . 138 ifo Annual Report 2017 3 The ifo Institute 2017 The Goals and Tasks of ifo Institute Since its foundation in January 1949 ifo has provided as a bridge between academic research and practical both information and research, hence its name ifo = politics.