57th Annual Meeting of the Ifo Institute
ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, München, 2006
ifo Schnelldienst, 2006, 59, Nr. 12, 03-04
The 57th Annual Meeting of the Ifo Institute took place in the Large Auditorium (Grosse Aula) of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. After words of welcome by the President of the LMU, Bernd Huber, and the Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure and Transportation, Erwin Huber, Ifo President Hans-Werner Sinn presented the latest Ifo economic forecast and spoke at length on employment and combi-wages. Then, the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, gave the featured presentation, "Further Integrating Euro Area Economies: Some Reflections". To conclude the public portion of the Annual Meeting, a panel discussion on "Jobs für Deutschland" was conducted. The participants, in addition to Minister Huber und Prof. Sinn, included Prof. Michael Burda, Prof. Ingolf Deubel, Prof. Wolfgang Franz and Prof. Georg Milbradt. The panel was chaired by Nikolaus Piper of the Süddeutschen Zeitung. The Ifo economic forecast, the keynote address of Jean-Claude Trichet and the statements of the panel participants are documented in this issue.