RWI Essen
The RWI Essen, full German name Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V., is a leading economic research institute in Essen, Germany.
The RWI has a non-profit status, it is part of the Leibniz Association, mainly publicly funded, but also receives third-party-fundings and employs 80 people.
It is a policy advocacy that is recognized for co-authoring the 'joint diagnosis on the German economy', while it is seen as industry friendly and is criticized for its personally entanglement with industry by sharing staff of board of administration with energy (RWE), several insurance and financial cooperations and industry-funded think-tanks.[1]
Report on the German economy
The RWI Essen is one of the economic research institutes in Germany that, twice a year (in Spring and Autumn), submit a joint report on the state of the German economy, the so-called Gemeinschaftsdiagnose (joint diagnosis). [2]
The other participating institutes are:
- Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, in Munich in cooperation with KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle of the ETH Zürich, in Zürich, Switzerland
- Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) at the University of Kiel, in Kiel
- Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IWH), in Halle in cooperation with Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung in der Hans-Boeckler-Stiftung, in Düsseldorf and Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, in Vienna, Austria
Research focus
The research work of RWI is structured along four "competence areas":
- Labor Markets, Education, Population
- Health Economics
- Environment and Resources
- Macroeconomics and Public Finance
References
- ↑ Description of the RWI by the NGO LobbyControl (German)
- ↑ German government Web site Bundesregierung Online (German)
External links
- Official website (German or English)
- Website of the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (graduate school located at the RWI Essen)