Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)
IWH’s tasks are economic research and research-based advising of economic policy. With its four research departments – Macroeconomics, Financial Markets, Structural Change and Productivity as well as Laws, Regulations and Factor Markets –, IWH conducts economic research and provides economic policy recommendations, which are founded on evidence-based research. In the focus of its research, IWH investigates processes of economic convergence and the role of the financial system regarding the (re-)allocation of production factors, structural change, the facilitation of productivity and innovation, productivity growth as well as macroeconomic dynamics and stability.
The institute among other things participates in the Joint Economic Forecast, a six-monthly expert review on behalf of the German Federal Government. Currently, IWH for example coordinates the EU project „MULTIMSPROD“ or the project “Evaluation of the InvKG (Coal Regions Investment Act) and the federal STARK programme (Strengthening the Transformation Dynamics and Awakening in the Coalfields and at the Coal-fired Power Plant Sites) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection.
The institute was founded on January 1, 1992. In terms of its legal status, IWH is a registered association. It pursues aims directly and exclusively related to the public interest, especially research interests.
