Hans Möller Symposium and 66th Ifo Annual Meeting

This year the Ifo Institute’s Annual Meeting, which took place on 12 June, was linked with an invitation to the Symposium entitled: “Developments in economic policy in the Federal Republic of Germany”, jointly organised by the Ifo Institute and the Economics Faculty of the University of Munich and held on Thursday 11 June 2015 to mark what would have been the 100th Birthday of Prof. Hans Möller. Hans Möller devoted himself to the theory of economic policy and practical policy advice. He was the predecessor of Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn. The keynote speakers on 11 June were Prof. Knut Borchardt, Emeritus at the Economics Faculty of the University of Munich, Prof. Claudia M. Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Prof. J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover. In addition to Prof. Sinn, the Dean of the Economics Faculty of the University of Munich, Prof. Joachim Winter, and Prof. Bernd Huber, President of the University of Munich, also made introductory speeches.