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The USA's “reciprocal” tariffs: a look behind the tariff formula

Just under 100 days into US President Donald Trump's second term in office, the impact of his decisions on the global economy is becoming increasingly clear. These include the imposition of tariffs on US imports from other countries. In his latest article for IAW Impulse, IAW Research Fellow Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jung examines the extent to which this measure comes close to the declared goal of reducing the United States' trade deficits with other countries (in German).

Bundesbank-IAW lecture event with panel discussion at Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart

Award of the Norbert Kloten Prize for Applied Economic Research 2025 to:

Mr Jan Jacobsen, M.Sc. for his Master's thesis Do Finfluencers Give Good Investment Advice? A large-scale, LLMpowered Analysis of the Profitability of Investment Recommendations on YouTube. Supervisor: Professor Dr Dominik Papies, Chair of Marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

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From left to right: Prof Dr Martin Biewen, Director of the IAW, Jan Jacobsen and Dr Patricia Staab, President of the Head Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Baden-Württemberg.

Lecture

Germany in international tax competition (in German).

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Professor Dr Dr h.c. Clemens Fuest (Professor of Economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and President of the ifo Institute).

Panel discussion

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  • Raoul Didier, Head of the Tax Policy Department at DGB
  • Professor Dr Dr h.c. Clemens Fuest, President of the ifo Institute
  • Dr Tobias Hentze, Head of the Thematic Cluster State, Taxes, Social Security at IW Köln
  • Julia Jirmann, Tax Policy Officer of the Tax Justice Network
  • Moderation: Johannes Pennekamp (FAZ)

February 24–25, 2025: Workshop on Economic Security and the Future of the Global Trading System - Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Complementarities Between Import and Export Activities: Firm-Level Evidence for Goods and Services. (Poster-Session)

Matthias Fauth [IAW] together with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jung [University of Hohenheim] and Prof. em. Dr. Wilhelm Kohler [University of Tübingen/IAW]

July 18, 2024: 9th Bundesbank-IAW Lecture at the University of Tübingen

The Deutsche Bundesbank, Head Office Stuttgart, and the Institute for Applied Economic Research e.V. (IAW) at the University of Tübingen invite you to the 9th Bundesbank-IAW Lecture at the University of Tübingen.

This year's speaker is Professor Dr Moritz Schularick, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris).

Title of the Lecture: European Economic Security

When: Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 2 pm (s.t.)

Where: Neue Aula, Audimax, University of Tübingen

Language: English

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Publications

Gabriel J. Felbermayr, Wilhelm Kohler, u.a.

Potential impacts of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on developing and emerging economies

Study by the Ifo Institute, Munich, and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW), Tuebingen (Summary), commissiond by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, January 2015.

Wilhelm Kohler, Marcel Smolka

Global Sourcing and Firm Selection
In: Economics Letters, Vol. 124 (2014/3): 411–415

Wilhelm Kohler, Marcel Smolka

Global Sourcing Decisions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Spain
In Stern, R. M. (ed.), Quantitative Analysis of Newly Evolving Patterns of International Trade: Fragmentation; Offshoring of Activities; and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade. World Scientific Studies in International Economics, 2012

Wilhelm Kohler, Marcel Smolka

Sourcing Premia with Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Evidence
In The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, vol.11, Issue 1 (Contributions), January 2011