Tag: DIW
Half full or half empty glass? – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
On Boxing Day I once again experienced what, for lack of a better term, I like to call the “Germany feeling”: A long freeway drive back from relatives. The names…
DIW boss Marcel Fratzscher warns of a difficult year
Rarely in the past few decades have we looked at a new year with so much uncertainty, worry and fear as we do today. We are in the middle of…
Margret Suckale is a pioneer
Margret Suckale She is one of the ten most influential members of the Dax supervisory board. Wherever she went, she was the first: whether in 2005 on the Board of…
Residential real estate with record price increases – rural regions also in demand
Wind power plant with several wind turbines n stand near a residential area s in Grasellenbach in the Odenwald, district of Berg In rural districts, prices rose by 15.5 percent…
DIW currently sees the German economy on a downward path
German industry In view of the order situation, the institute estimates that the industry will pick up sooner or later. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to the DIW, the corona restrictions…
To whom does the basic child benefit benefit?
Stroller parade The traffic light coalition wants to give low-income families more support. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The new Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Anne Spiegel (Greens), described the introduction of…
Corona: The economy in Germany is shrinking
Berlin The Chancellor is optimistic about the corona pandemic. “Yes, it will get better,” said Olaf Scholz (SPD) in his first government statement in the Bundestag. But it will not…
Corona: The economy in Germany is shrinking
Berlin The Chancellor is optimistic about the corona pandemic. “Yes, it will get better,” said Olaf Scholz (SPD) in his first government statement in the Bundestag. But it will not…
Economists urge government to act quickly
Appointment as Federal Chancellor Berlin Following the election of Olaf Scholz (SPD) as the new Federal Chancellor, leading economists are urging the new government to act immediately. In addition to…
Spain and the Netherlands would be particularly affected
Residential houses in Cologne’s Südstadt Real estate prices in Germany have been rising steadily for years. (Photo: imago images / Jürgen Schwarz) Frankfurt / Berlin The prices are rising. The…
Corona brings back a specter from the 70s
stagflation Energy, raw materials and food – prices are rising in many areas. (Photo: Smetek) The corona pandemic brings a horror scenario from the 1970s back into the economic and…
Farewell in the name of the rose – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
Angela Merkel’s “Big Zapfenstreich”: a farewell in the name of the rose. The degree of wetness in their eyes changed slightly when the Bundeswehr played their Hildegard Knef music request…
Coalition agreement: Financing of the traffic light projects is shaky
Olaf Scholz (r.), Christian Lindner The chancellor-designate and his finance minister are faced with unclear questions about the financing of their projects. (Photo: Bloomberg) Berlin The traffic light negotiators listed…
What the future traffic light government can score with economists
Berlin Just as politicians of different orientations were able to agree in the traffic light coalition, economists of different schools of thought also endorse the contents of the coalition agreement.…
Marcel Fratzscher & Volker Wieland on inflation
Volker Wieland and Marcel Fratzscher (from left) DIW President Fratzscher considers the high rate of inflation to be a temporary phenomenon, while Wieland’s economy warns that inflation is setting in…
Marcel Fratzscher & Volker Wieland on inflation
Volker Wieland and Marcel Fratzscher (from left) DIW President Fratzscher considers the high rate of inflation to be a temporary phenomenon, while Wieland’s economy warns that inflation is setting in…
How a tax reform would still be possible
Olaf Scholz (SPD), Christian Dürr and Christian Lindner (from right, both FPD) in the Bundestag A reform of income tax through the traffic light seems off the table, but a…
How a tax reform would still be possible
Olaf Scholz (SPD), Christian Dürr and Christian Lindner (from right, both FPD) in the Bundestag A reform of income tax through the traffic light seems off the table, but a…
The upswing increases the gap between rich and poor
View from Belziger Ring to Marzahn and the Ahrensfeld Mountains (left). When the economy is in crisis, inequality decreases. In the upswing, however, the unequal distribution of income increases. (Photo:…
Economic performance: First eastern countries catch up with the west: three facts on the progress of the economic process of unity
The traffic light wants to complete the unity. A look at economic performance gives the impression that this could be simple. But there is still a lot to be done.…