Halle Institute for Economic Research


The Halle Institute for Economic Research is a non-profit organization and one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany. Founded in 1992, the IWH is a member of the Leibniz Association, the German network of non-university institutes dedicated to research and advanced scholarship.

History

The IWH began operations on January 1, 1992 in Halle. Since then, its scholars have published in peer-reviewed journals and in working papers.
In 2012, the IWH began the Doctoral Programme in Economics, a four-year programme with two years of courses. Doctoral students develop economic foundations and are allocated to one of three research departments: Financial Markets, Macroeconomics, Structural Change and Productivity. The program is part of the Central-German Doctoral Program Economics, a network of economic faculties in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, and Thuringia, including those at TU Dresden, Leipzig University, and Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Former presidents of the IWH include:
The IWH is one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany that, twice a year, submit a joint report on the state of the German economy, the so-called Gemeinschaftsdiagnose.
The IWH participated in the first Forecast in spring 1993.
The other institutes are: