Good legislation and good administrative action are of great importance for the social acceptance of politics and administration. Unfortunately, however, they are often unclear, bureaucratic and poorly tailored to the needs of citizens. This conference volume(in German) addresses the current situation in and potential solutions to this issue, including training, service design, digitisation and AI.
After the years of the Corona pandemic, with declines in economic performance in many sectors, the Stuttgart Region is currently showing signs of a clear recovery. However, new crises have emerged, such as the war in Ukraine with its (not only) global economic consequences or the increasingly clear climate changes, which also require action in the region. At the same time, digitization is advancing and the transformation of the powertrain and mobility is leaving its mark far beyond the automotive industry.
In addition to analyses of the structure and dynamics of the regional economy, the structural report also takes an in-depth look at various "resilience factors" (e.g., labor and training market, innovation, commercial space). These factors can present themselves as opportunities or risks for the regional economy.
Based on the presentation of five focus areas of the regional economy - the automotive and production technology clusters, the IT economy, the healthcare industry and the skilled trades industry - further strengths, weaknesses and challenges for the regional economy are identified and analyzed.
In the third quarter of 2023, the growth of Baden-Württemberg's gross domestic product (GDP) will slip slightly into negative territory (see figure on the left: rates of change in GDP from the previous quarter, 2021-2024). In the two following quarters, there could be weakly positive economic growth again. As far as can be foreseen at present, 2023 will nevertheless be recorded in the statistics as a year with very weak growth.
In the economic causal analyses of a recent IAW study commissioned by the BMFSFJ, no statistically significant effects of the instruments of the EntgTranspG on equal pay between women and men can be demonstrated. The further analyses show that the applicable legal regulations are still not sufficiently known, that their implementation remains unclear in some cases, and that they are often ignored or circumvented in whole or in part. This is also due to the fact that at least two of the three central instruments of the law, namely the voluntary company auditing procedures and the reporting obligations for companies subject to management reporting, are not or not sufficiently sanctioned.
New scientific director at IAW - Prof. Martin Biewen succeeds Prof. Wilhelm Kohler
As of today, Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen (2nd from right) takes over as Scientific Director of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) in Tübingen. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kohler, who held this office for ten years. In the future, Professor Biewen will lead the IAW together with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Boockmann.
Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen has held the Chair of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since 2009. His research interests lie in labor market and education economics, especially in the area of income distribution. His methodological contributions deal, among other things, with the application of machine learning.
Award of the Norbert Kloten Prize for Applied Economic Research 2023 to Mr. Matthias Wirth for his master thesis Climate Change Econometrics: Estimating a two-component energy balance model as a cointegrated VAR, which was supervised by Professor Dr. Joachim Grammig at the University of Tübingen.
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Greeting: Dr. Patricia Staab, President of the Head Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Baden-Württemberg. Laudatory speech: Professor Dr. Wilhelm Rall, Chairman of the Board of IAW e.V.
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Multilateralism as a response to the challenges facing Europe and China. Dr. Ludger Schuknecht, Vice President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Beijing, PR China
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Panel Discussion: Dr. Ludger Schuknecht, Vice President of the AIIB, Beijing, PR China Prof. Dr. Lisandra Flach, Director of the Ifo Center for International Economics / Professor of Economics at LMU Munich, Germany Dr. Thomas Hueck, Chief Economist, Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany Eric Schöller, Member of the Board of Management, Groz-Beckert KG, Albstadt Moderation: Johannes Pennekamp, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Baden-Württemberg economy: The weak phase continues
According to the current nowcast of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) and the University of Hohenheim, the Baden-Württemberg economy will grow by 0.4 percent in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter. Together with the forecasts for the third and fourth quarters, this results in a projected growth rate for 2023 as a whole of 0.6 percent compared to 2022. This would mean that the economy would only grow by half as much as in 2022.
