Report

Special report: Setting Out for a New Climate Policy

– The German Council of Economic Experts presents its special report "Setting Out for a New Climate Policy" to the German Government today, in which it discusses reform options for climate policy in Germany.

Working Paper

Rent Control and Rental Prices: High Expectations, High Effectiveness?

– Working Paper 07/2018 by Philipp Breidenbach, Lea Eilers and Jan Fries (Download)

Press Release

German Council of Economic Experts will be appointed as National Productivity Board

– The federal government will assign the task of the National Productivity Board to the German Council of Economic Experts. Hereby, it implements a recommendation by the Council of the European Union as of 20 September 2016.

Working Paper

On the Macroeconomic and Fiscal Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

– Working Paper 10/2018 by Philipp Lieberknecht and Volker Wieland (Download)

Press Release

Economic Update March 2019

– The German Council of Economic Experts is cutting its growth forecast for 2019 and now expects German GDP to grow by 0.8 % and 1.7 % in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Working Paper

Population Growth, the Natural Rate of Interest, and Inflation

– Working Paper 03/2019 by Sebastian Weiske (Download)