Please address media inquiries to:
phone: +49 345 7753-720
e-mail: presse@iwh-halle.de
Team Public Relations
Germany’s economy is so bad even sausage factories are closingIWHThe Economist, January 15, 2026
This paper estimates the possible AI contribution to future labor productivity growth assuming that AI is both a “general purpose technology” and an “innovation in the method of innovation.” The framework used in this paper separates an upstream innovation sector from a downstream production sector.
The 13th CompNet conference will gather frontier researchers with top notch policy advises on competitiveness.
The CompNet conference discusses questions related to firm productivity, competition on output and input markets, internal and external factors hampering the reallocation of factors of production and the diffusion and adoption of new knowledge and technologies as well as the implication of such barriers for welfare and economic growth policies and the role of globalization, trade and new technologies.
A conference jointly organised by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
A conference jointly organised by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).
A conference jointly organised by the Bank of Italy, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).
A conference jointly organised by the ESADE Business School, the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Banking Association (EBA), the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) and the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).
The aim of this workshop is to dig deeper into localisation economies and associated productivity gains. The increasing availability of new cross-border databases at the firm level and of micro-level databases at the firm and individual levels creates the opportunity to analyse localisation economies in novel settings.
