Project

ifo Industry Colloquium 2016

Client: Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology, Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria.
Project period: January 2016 - December 2016
Research Areas:

ifo Center for Industrial Organization and New Technologies

Project team: Prof. Dr. Oliver Falck, Ludwig Dorffmeister, Michael Ebnet, Dr. Gernot Nerb, Gülsüm Orhan, Julia Schricker, Simone Schüller, Arno Städtler, Przemyslow Wojciechowski, Dr. Hans-Günther Vieweg

Tasks

The “ifo Industry Colloquium”, organised in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria, focuses on analysing current economic trends.

Methods

Four parallel sessions on “Manufacturing” and “Commerce”, as well as on “Construction” and “Services” were held. In each session, the respective sector analysis and forecasts were presented by ifo industry experts, followed by a discussion of major industry-related structural changes.

Data and other sources

Among others:
Branchen special reports
ifo Business Survey
ifo Economic Forecast
Joint Economic Forecast

Results

This year’s focus was on the structural changes triggered by increased asylum seeker immigration to Germany.

Publication

Vieweg, Hans-Günter, Hans-Dieter Karl, Michael Ebnet, Gülsüm Orhan, Ludwig Dorffmeister, Matijas Kocijan, Gernot Nerb and Przemyslaw Wojciechowski, "ifo Branchen-Dialog 2016", ifo Schnelldienst 69 (23), 2016, 34–51 | PDF Download