The ifo Institute publishes an economic forecast four times per year. The forecast focuses on developments in the German economy for a period of up to two years. In view of the close links between the German economy and the world economy, and particularly the European economy, ifo also forecasts developments in the European Union and other important countries. The forecast is based on an in-depth analysis of the economic situation.
The Joint Economic Forecast analyses and forecasts the economic situation in Germany. The forecasts are conducted twice a year: one forecast is published in spring followed by another in autumn. The Joint Economic Forecasts act as a point of reference fort he forecasts made by the German federal government. The Joint Economic Forecast is a joint research project conducted by several economic research institutes. Their cooperation is characterised by a dialogue between different competing theoretical and methodical approaches, forming the best possible basis for analysis and forecasts.
Bi-monthly, ifoCAST presents an assessment of the development of Germany’s current GDP growth and highlights changes in the forecast against the background of new information.
The monitoring of economic activity has been one of the main tasks of io Dresden since its founding in 1993. In recent years a system for economic forecasting has been developed using data from the ifo Business Survey in Eastern Germany and Saxony.
The Eurozone Economic Outlook was a joint project between the German ifo Institute, the Italian Istat Institute and the KOF Swiss Economic Institute. It produced a joint forecast for real gross domestic product, consumption of private households, gross fixed capital formation (investment), industrial production and the inflation rate in the euro zone for the current and the two following quarters. The publication was discontinued in spring 2021.