Press Release

Prof. Christoph M. Schmidt re­ceives the Gus­tav Stolper Award of the Verein für So­cialpoli­tik

– The Verein für So­cialpoli­tik (VfS) has awarded the Gus­tav Stolper Award 2016 to Prof. Christoph M. Schmidt, pres­i­dent of the RWI – Leib­niz In­sti­tute for Eco­nomic Re­search and chair­man of the Ger­man Coun­cil of Eco­nomic Ex­perts.

Event

Coun­cil deep­ens in­ter­na­tional co­op­er­a­tion

– On June 24 2016, the Ger­man Coun­cil of Eco­nomic Ex­perts has held the "In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence of Coun­cils on Eco­nomic Pol­icy" in Berlin. The event took place on the premises and with the sup­port of the Fed­eral Min­istry for Eco­nomic Af­fairs and En­ergy and was…

Forecast

Eco­nomic fore­cast for 2016 and 2017

– The Ger­man Coun­cil of Eco­nomic Ex­perts has slightly low­ered its fore­cast for 2016 due to some­what weaker ex­ter­nal de­mand. The Coun­cil now ex­pects Ger­man gross do­mes­tic prod­uct (GDP) to grow 1.5 %. For 2017, the Coun­cil ex­pects GDP growth to pick up slightly to…

Press Release

Reap­point­ment of Prof. Lars P. Feld for the Coun­cil

– Today Pro­fes­sor Dr. Lars P. Feld, Freiburg, re­ceived his cer­tifi­cate of ap­point­ment as mem­ber of the Ger­man Coun­cil of Eco­nomic Ex­perts for the term of 1st March 2016 till 28 Feb­ru­ary 2021 from Dr. Rainer Son­towski, State Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry for Eco­nomic…

Press Release

Cab­i­net’s pro­posal re­gard­ing the reap­point­ment of Prof. Lars P. Feld for the Coun­cil

– The Ger­man cab­i­net has de­cided to pro­pose the reap­point­ment of Pro­fes­sor Dr. Lars P. Feld for the Ger­man Coun­cil of Eco­nomic Ex­perts to the Fed­eral Pres­i­dent Joachim Gauck.

Report

An­nual Eco­nomic Re­port 2015/16

– The Ger­man Coun­cil of Eco­nomic Ex­perts presents its An­nual Eco­nomic Re­port 2015/16 today. The re­port is en­ti­tled "Focus on Fu­ture Vi­a­bil­ity"