A sober diagnosis with an optimistic ending: at the first Hamburg-Kiel Lecture, Dani Rodrik traced how economic dislocation fuels populism – and why good service jobs and bold policy can be the remedy.
📽️Video coming soon.
On Wednesday, @pogourinchas received the 2026 Bernhard Harms Prize for his research on global imbalances, capital flows & the international monetary system, presented by @MSchularick, w/ a laudatio by Philip Lane.
Read more including Lane’s full laudatio 👉kielinstitut.de/events/prize…
Die Industrie macht Boden gut: +1,7 % im September, meldet @destatis. Doch während Branchen mit Bezug zu KI-Boom & Verteidigung zulegen, ist im Maschinenbau & in der Autoindustrie keine nachhaltige Erholung erkennbar. Mehr von Nils Jannsen 👉 kielinstitut.de/de/medien/ak…
Day 2 of the 5th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics is underway in Berlin. Day 1 was too busy to post, so here are some 📷highlights: keynotes by Johann Wadephul & Carmen Reinhart, plus a panel with Wadephul, Susanne Wiegand & @MSchularick, moderated by Sarah Kelly.
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🚗 Ab Sonntag drohen Warnstreiks, VW meldet heute einen Milliardenverlust. Lohnverzicht allein rettet die Autoindustrie aber nicht, sagt Dirk Dohse.
„Wer jetzt nur über Lohnprozente streitet – auf beiden Seiten –, führt die falsche Debatte.“
👉 kielinstitut.de/de/medien/ak…
The Fed held at 3.75–4.00%, as Lena Dräger had argued beforehand: inflation is energy-driven, wages lag prices, and bond markets have already tightened. 10-year yields hit 5.31%, the highest since 2002.
Her statement 👉 kielinstitut.de/media/news/t…
⏳ 6 days to go – and here is how it all begins: The 5th Kiel-CEPR Conference on #Geoeconomics opens with a policy keynote by @AussenMinDE, followed by a high-level panel. By invitation – requests welcome until today [email protected]
Full program 👉 kielinstitut.de/institute/ev…
⏳ One week to go – is the clock ticking for global debt, too? Our countdown to the 5th Kiel-CEPR Conference on #Geoeconomics continues: keynote by Carmen Reinhart @Kennedy_School.
Program 👉 kielinstitut.de/institute/ev…
By invitation – requests welcome at [email protected]
⏳ 8 days to go until the 5th Kiel-CEPR Conference on #Geoeconomics in Berlin. Among the highlights: our panel on Economic Security – when do dependencies on critical raw materials become strategic vulnerabilities? By invitation – requests welcome at [email protected]
👉 kielinstitut.de/institute/ev…
📺 How can Europe build a defence economy that makes deterrence credible? Mark Harrison, Sönke Neitzel and @MSchularick discussed the lessons of a century of war economies in Berlin. Watch the full panel: youtube.com/watch?v=jIh9Cxra…
Europe plans up to €800bn for rearmament. New Kiel Report by Nathan Lane @straightedge: this can boost the wider economy, but only if policy is designed for it. Civilian spillovers aren’t automatic. Procurement, the biggest lever, is th least understood👉 kielinstitut.de/media/news/e…
Two weeks to go: @pogourinchas will receive the Bernhard Harms Prize at the 5th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics. Special feature: laudation by @ecb Chief Economist Philip Lane.
Program 👉 kielinstitut.de/institute/ev…
By invitation – last-minute requests welcome: [email protected]
@MSchularick @Ch_Trebesch @cepr_org
🎉 We're proud to announce that @pogourinchas (@UCBerkeley, former @IMFNews Chief Economist) will receive the 2026 Bernhard Harms Prize! Honored for pioneering, field-shaping work on global imbalances, capital flows & the dollar's role in the international monetary system.
Award Ceremony at the 5th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics in Berlin, Nov 3-4!
👉 kielinstitut.de/research/pub…
⏳Countdown is on – for the conference, & maybe for the dollar? 2 weeks to the 5th Kiel-CEPR Conference on #Geoeconomics in Berlin. Keynote: Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford) on “Dollar Erosion”.
Program 👉 kielinstitut.de/institute/ev…
📩By invitation – last-minute requests welcome: [email protected]
Germany and France want a “Made in Europe” rule for cars. @MSchularick: “What Europe needs is not ‘Made in Europe’ but ‘Made with Europe’: an alliance of the middle powers willing to set common rules of origin and face China’s distortions together.” 👉 kielinstitut.de/media/news/f…
Tomorrow, 12:00 CEST, Kiel Trade Talks: @MykolaRyzhenkov shows how Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports cut sea-dependent exports and forced trade onto other routes. He also quantifies the welfare losses for Ukraine & third countries.
Register 👉 kielinstitut.de/events/semin…
🇨🇳🇪🇺 New Kiel Policy Brief: Europe’s “China Shock 2.0” response adds tools but lacks a strategic goal. It proposes a European economic-security instrument – &, as a first step, extending the EV duties to hybrids 👇 kielinstitut.de/media/news/c…
@MSchularick @julianhinz @SanderTordoir
“This is a prize for the operating manual of modern economies.” Kiel Institute President @MSchularick on the #NobelPrize in Economics for Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, whose work forms the microeconomic backbone of stabilisation policy 👉 kielinstitut.de/media/news/n…
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”
#NobelPrize
📢 New semester in Germany, and we have a special event for you: Harvard economist Dani Rodrik on populism, the globalization backlash and remedies.
Inaugural Hamburg–Kiel Lecture, Oct 31, Hamburg!
Register now 👉 kielinstitut.de/events/dani-…
Students, researchers, practitioners & everyone curious welcome!
On Oct 26–27, the 111th Kieler Konjunkturgespräche come home to the Kiel Institute, with a special focus on housing and the macro economy. Featuring Jan David Bakker (Bocconi), @amengden (@TaxFoundation) & Jonas Zdrzalek (GREIX & Kiel).
Register now 👉 kielinstitut.de/events/confe…
Plus the latest economic outlooks: global (Klaus-Jürgen Gern), US (@AdolfoLaurenti, VISA), China (@WanHsinLiu), UK (Stephen Millard, @NIESRorg), France (Paul Berthier, @Rexecode ) and Germany (Nils Jannsen).
Reminder! Less than a week to apply 👇
📢 We are hiring! Jointly with Humboldt Universität, we are recruiting a Full Professor (W3) in International Economics, starting October 2027 – including leadership of a research group at our Berlin location.
📅 Apply by October 15, 2026
👉 kielinstitut.de/institute/ca…
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