Seit 1971 ist dem ifo Institut die Geschäftsstelle des Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys angegliedert. Alle zwei Jahre treffen sich CIRET-Mitglieder und andere Experten zur Diskussion neuer Forschungsergebnisse. Die umfangreiche Tagesordnung der 22. CIRET-Konferenz,...

At first sight and in terms of explicit references, the relationship between Hayek and the early Freiburg School seems to have been one of mutually benign neglect. It took several decades before the “Hayekian challenge” was fully understood in Freiburg; in a way one could even argue that the...

Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker reviews legal theories of Richard Posner and Friedrich von Hayek, who are famous for their contribution to law and economics.

Four talks on Keynes in relation to the Bloomsbury Group: I. Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury (Craufurd Goodwin); II. Keynes as Policy Advisor (E. Roy Weintraub); III. Keynes and Economics (Kevin D. Hoover); IV. Keynes and Hayek (Bruce Caldwell). The talks were delivered as part of roundtable...

Entrepreneurs that were employed by successful industry incumbents prior to founding tend to confer advantages on their new organizations. We propose and then demonstrate a similar "network progeny" effect rooted in the social relationships that form among entrepreneurs. Our analysis of new...

In this paper, we demonstrate that cultural borders in international finance resurge during financial crises. To investigate the role of cultural borders during both tranquil and crisis periods, we employ a unique data set that focuses on Eurozone cross-border depositing in a gravity-model...

The article discusses the features of China’s economic culture. The author traces the genesis of the economic model of the Chinese civilization and determine its potential as an alternative to the Western one. Among the characteristic properties of the Chinese model for much of the New Age one...

The argument of social embeddedness has become one of the most celebrated metaphors in economic sociology. The attempt connected to that term is the elaboration of a solid basis for economic sociology as discipline within the concert of economics and further social sciences. The paper argues...