IAW EVENTS AND SEMINARS

2025

June 27, 2025: II IAW Workshop Growth. Prosperity. Democracy - Deciding and acting in the face of increasing uncertainty

Venue: Head office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

The IAW workshop is dedicated to the following questions:
- State of scientific knowledge on growth, income and wealth distribution, nature consumption and democracy. Are there gaps in research and knowledge?
- How can an informed public discourse with rational decisions for action emerge from scientific findings?
- How does this discourse fit into practical processes of the emergence of communicative power and its institutional implementation in administrative power? What roles do actors as diverse as scientists, NGOs, political parties and the media play in this process?
- What are the factors that turn knowledge of and about problems into a trigger for rapid countermeasures, even if these involve serious impositions for the citizens affected?
- Why are insights into the need for self-restraint reinterpreted as restrictions on freedom that inhibit action? How can a revision succeed?

Programme (in German)

Please note: The number of participants is limited to 25. We therefore ask you to register early by e-mail to michael.mangold@iaw.edu


April 8, 2025: 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)