Hamburg World Economic Institute
The Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut ( HWWI ) was founded in 2005 to continue some of the research work of the Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (HWWA), which was excluded from public funding at the end of 2006 on the recommendation of the Leibniz Institute due to poor evaluation results . Until the end of 2006, the HWWA was also one of the five advisory economic institutes of the federal government. The director of the HWWI was Thomas Straubhaar , who had previously headed the HWWA. Straubhaar announced in 2013 that it would resign from this position in September 2014. At the end of August 2014, he handed over his position to Henning Vöpel , who has headed the institute since then.
The HWWI is the winner of the "Consensus Economics 2018 Forecast Accuracy Award for Germany", an international award from the British organization Consensus Economics . Measured by more than 30 German and international economic forecasters, the HWWI was awarded for its most accurate forecast of real gross domestic product and consumer prices in Germany for the 2018 calendar year.
Alignment
The HWWI has been an independent research institution since 2005. The HWWI is supported by the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. The scientific partner is the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg . The University of Hamburg was also a partner in the HWWI until 2016 . It sees itself as a private think tank .
The institute is liberal and has the main research areas:
- Digital Economy (IDEAS @ HWWI)
- Work, education and demographics
- Energy, climate and the environment
- Business cycle, world economy and international trade
- Hamburg, cities and regions
HWWI raw material price index . With the index of world market prices for raw materials, the HWWI provides a comprehensive measure of the current price development on the raw material markets.
Bremen branch
Since 2011 the HWWI has also had a branch in Bremen, the HWWI Bremen. Four employees ensure that the entire research and advisory competence of the HWWI is also available to companies, politicians, authorities, chambers, foundations and associations in the Bremen and Northwest region. The branch has particular expertise in the area of regional economics as well as for all topics relating to the Hanseatic city of Bremen and the north-western regions.
Branch office Thuringia
On February 12, 2007, the HWWI opened a branch in Erfurt , the state capital of Thuringia . This has meanwhile been closed. The branch was dedicated to the following priorities:
- Basic questions of order theory and politics,
- Transformation and reform processes in the young federal states as well as in East Central and Eastern Europe and
- Economic and regional economic development of the Free State of Thuringia.
The work in these key areas should be dedicated to the legacy of the economist Wilhelm Röpke . That is why the HWWI was one of the co-founders of the Wilhelm Röpke Institute in Erfurt in 2007 . Together with this institute, the HWWI organized the Wilhelm Röpke lecture annually on the anniversary of Röpke's death , and these also formed the Thuringia Action Point of the Social Market Economy Action Group . The Röpke Institute continues in Erfurt.
Web links
- Website of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics
- Press release on the start of the HWWI (PDF file; 50 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Evaluation report of the Leibniz Institute ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB), accessed on April 18, 2007;
- ^ In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 23rd August 2013.
- ↑ Press release "The HWWI wins Consensus Economics 2018 Forecast Accuracy Award for Germany" (PDF file, 178 kB); last accessed on June 24, 2019.
- ↑ Hamburg Chamber of Commerce is looking for partners for the HWWI from January 19, 2018
- ↑ hwwi.org (PDF; 164 kB) See at the end of the press release.
- ↑ Beate Kranz: HWWI opens branch in Erfurt on abendblatt.de (accessed on September 3, 2017)
- ↑ Rethink regulatory policy, branch Thuringia of the HWWI in Erfurt on hwwi.org (accessed on September 3, 2017)