The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association was founded in 1992. IWH’s tasks are economic research and science-based advising of economic policy. IWH conducts evidence-based research by combining theoretical and empirical methods. In the focus of its research, IWH investigates processes of economic convergence, the role of the financial system regarding the (re-)allocation of production factors as well as the facilitation of productivity and innovation.

The four research departments are a) Financial Markets, b) Macroeconomics, c) Structural Change and Productivity and d) Laws, Regulations and Factor Markets. https://www.iwh-halle.de/en/about-the-iwh/the-institute/at-a-glance/

The IWH is one of the seven economic research institutes of the Leibniz Association in Germany (www.iwh-halle.de).