Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research

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The Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research eV (NIW) , based in Hanover, was a non-profit research institute. The institute, founded in 1981, was a member of the working group of German economic research institutes. It stopped working in October 2016.

The founding board member and first scientific director was Lothar Hübl . From 1991 to 2005 the institute was headed by the former president of Leibniz University Hannover , Ludwig Schätzl . Javier Revilla Diez then took over the chairmanship of the institute. Stephan Lothar Thomsen was scientific director of the NIW from October 2011 to June 2016.

The Center for Economic Policy Studies (CWS) of the Institute for Economic Policy at Leibniz Universität Hannover, which was founded in 2016, offers part of the research and advisory work of the NIW in its range of activities.

tasks

In its work, the NIW has devoted itself to current economic and economic policy issues. One focus and unique selling point was the description, analysis and evaluation of the economic development of Lower Saxony and its regions.

The work of the NIW was divided into five research areas:

  • Competitiveness, structural change and industries
  • Education, Qualification, Labor Market and Demographic Change
  • Regional and location analyzes
  • Evaluation of political interventions
  • public finances

A closer cooperation with the Leibniz Universität Hannover, established in 2010, strengthened the scientific profile and scientific quality of the institute. In this context, scientific qualification positions (doctorate, post-doc) were created in the following years and a number of dissertations were written by employees of the institute.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research (NIW) is dissolved - Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research eV (NIW). Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  2. http://www.mw.niedersachsen.de/portal/live.php?navigation_id=5459&article_id=103714&_psmand=18
  3. Completion of the work of the NIW - Foundation of the Center for Economic Policy Studies (CWS) of the University of Hanover - Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research eV (NIW). Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  4. CWS Center. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .