European Institute for International Economic Relations
The European Institute for International Economic Relations (EIIW) is an independent, non-political, non-profit economic research institute located at the University of Wuppertal.
History
The EIIW was founded in 1995 in Potsdam, Germany, and moved in 2003 to the Freudenberg Campus of the University of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the first economic research institute in Germany to apply a European perspective to its analysis of economic issues. The EIIW has published award-winning research and is part of a large international network of economic experts in academia and the business world. In 2007/08, Alfred Grosser was a visiting scholar at the Institute. In 2007, the President of the EIIW, Prof. Dr. Paul JJ Welfens was awarded the internationally renowned Kondratiev Prize (silver medal), in addition to a 1996 award from the Wolfgang Ritter Foundation. The EIIW will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2020.
Research Area
Focus areas of research at the institute include international economic relations, integration, innovation, trade, capital flows, digitalization, and economic policy. Recent research has examined Brexit[1], the economics of climate change[2] and the economics of populism and Trump[3] and the macroeconomic effects of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic[4]. The EIIW is also the editor of the academic and scientific journal International Economics and Economic Policy and publishes regular discussion papers as well as dozens of books in German, English, as well as translations in Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and other languages.
Areas of particular research interest are:
- The globalization of markets and multinational firms
- European integration and transatlantic economic relations
- The energy sector, resource economics, and infrastructure
- The optimization of economic policy decisions and processes and the development of specific European perspectives on areas of common concern
- International labor market developments, social systems, and health systems economics
- Comparative innovation and entrepreneurship dynamics
- Monetary analyses, banking sector, and capital markets
- Digitalization and the Information and Telecommunication Technology sector
- Economic systems and transformation processes
In addition to its own research initiatives, the EIIW also undertakes research projects for foundations, governments, and international organizations. The EIIW has partnered with many leading institutions globally, including Johns Hopkins University, the Russian Academy of the Sciences, colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, University College London, and Maastricht University.
Personnel
The President of the EIIW Paul J. J. Welfens holds the Jean Monnet Chair for European Economic Integration and the chair of Macroeconomics at the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics at the University of Wuppertal. Welfens is also a research fellow of the Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit in Bonn and a non-resident senior fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA). The Vice-President of the institute is Wilfried Fuhrmann of the University of Potsdam.
Further personnel at the institute include up to eight researchers, supported by six assistants and the administrative secretariat.
Webpage
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- ↑ Welfens, Paul J. J. (2017). An Accidental Brexit: New EU and Transatlantic Economic Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-58270-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Welfens, Paul JJ (2019). Klimaschutzpolitik - Das Ende der Komfortzone. Springer. ISBN 978-3-658-27883-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Welfens, Paul J. J. (2019). The Global Trump: Structural US Populism and Economic Conflicts with Europe and Asia. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-21783-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Welfens, PJJ (March 2020). "Macroeconomic Aspects of the Coronavirus Epidemic: Eurozone, EU, US and Chinese Perspectives" (PDF). Unknown parameter
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