1991 – 2015

Foundation of CES

CES was founded by Hans-Werner Sinn on 18 January 1991.

The funds came from the ministry of culture to counter an offer that Sinn had received from the University of Berne,

Switzerland. CES was gradually expanded over the

years by further counter offers to offers Sinn received from the Max-Planck-

Society and the HWWA.

First CES Team 1991 Angela Lechner, Hans-Werner Sinn, Valerie Morfill

First CES Council

Karlhans Sauernheimer, Hans-Werner Sinn, Edwin von Böventer, Otto Gandenberger Hans Möller, Franz Gehrels, Martin Beckmann, Richard Musgrave, Agnar Sandmo, Klaus Zimmermann

Together with first CES Programme Directors 1995

Ray Rees Bernd Huber Klaus Schmidt

The Visiting Program 1991 ...

David Bradford

CES Family & First CES Guests

Syed Ahsan

David Wildasin

Peggy & Richard Musgrave

Jürg Niehans

Michael Burda Peter Sørensen

John Pigott

Dominique Demougin

Gary Becker

Long-term CES Visits, Lecture Courses and Working Papers

continued

1991–1998 (CES) 203 122 178 1999–2015 (CES) 586 315 5405

Total 1163 444 5583

Visits Lecture courses

WP CES/CESifo

(1999 - 2015) 374

North America 42.6%

Northern Europe 11.7%

UK 11.2%

Southern Europe 9.3%

Western Europe 7.9%

Germany 7.2%

Rest of Europe 5.8% Other 4.3%

878 visits visitors from 36 countries

Overall Visits (1991–2015) by Region

40 41

37

37 31

35 25

35 35

41 34

32 36

33

29 28

30 22

18

0 10 20 30 40

2015

2013

2011

2009

2007

2005

2003

2001

1999

1997

1995

1993

1991

CES: Long-term visits, lecture courses

34

30 36

31

30

1992

1994

1996

1998

2000

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

9

13 16

17 14

23 16

18 18

19 20 20

15 25

24 16

19 22

18 24

17 20

18 9

10

lecture courses visits

6

Management 1991–2015

CES/ CESifo Academic Coordinators & Managers

Susanne Wildgruber since October 2015 Florian Buck 10/2009 – 11/2015 Doina Radulescu 05/2007 – 09/2009 Rajshri Jayaraman 11/2004 – 04/2007 Silke Übelmesser 08/2003 – 10/2004

Alfons Weichenrieder 01/1999 – 02/2001 Ulrich Hange 03/2001 – 07/2003

Helge Berger 1996 – 1998 Christian Thimann 1992 – 1995 Angela Lechner 1991 – 1996

Martina Grass 01/1999 – Holger Feist 1997 – 1998

CES Staff

Ingrid Wutte, Ursula Baumann, Valerie Morfill, Gertraud Porak (1996)

Ursula Baumann, Renate Meitner, Ulrike Gasser, Susanne Wormslev

(2015)

First issue of the CES Journal April 1991

becomes CESifo Newsletter after 1999

Julio Saavedra (CESifo)

First CES Working Paper April 1991

Working papers

since 1991 since 1999 Current Appearance

CESifo Working Paper Series

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15

591

Important Events 1992 - 2015

Conferences & Symposia 12-13 June 1992 – Trans Atlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES) with NBER November 1995 – "Competition or Harmonization? - Fiscal Policy, Regulation, and Standards", conference organized jointly by CES and the Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Tutzing 23-27 March 1998 – James M. Buchanan and Richard A. Musgrave Symposium "Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting Visions of the State"

12-13 January 2001 – Richard Musgrave’s 90th and CES’s 10th birthday, conference "Public Finances and Public Policy in the New Millennium"

July 1998 – "Europa nach der Währungsunion", Symposium in honour of Edwin von Böventer and Hans Möller

June 2015 – "Entwicklung der Wirtschaftspolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland", Symposium on Hans Möller’s 100th birthday

November 1998 – "Ten Years after: German Unification Revisited“, Berlin

19 November 2013 – "Quo vadis Europe“, conference on the occasion of the 20th Munich Lectures in Economics

James M. Buchanan Richard A. Musgrave Symposium, March 1998

"Quo vadis Europe“ conference 20th Munich Lectures in Economics, November 2013

Richard Musgrave’s 90th CES’s 10th birthday,

January 2001

New rooms in Schackstr. 4 November 1992

In November 1992 CES moves into its new rooms in the building in Schackstrasse 4

First CES Lectures for LMU Economics PhD students

November 1993

The precursor of Munich Graduate School

First CES Munich Lectures December 1994

22 CES Prize Winners 1994 - 2015

First issue of Economic Policy with CES participation

April 1995

Richard Portes

Economic Policy CES participation since 1995

Georges de Menil

Kevin O'Rourke from 2016

Hans-Werner Sinn

Klaus Schmidt from 2016

MIT Book Series 1996 ...

ML book series with MIT Press

First CES Homepage 1996

Screenshot of Oct 1st 2000

CESifo Group Homepage

First CESifo Homepage 2001

CESifo Group Homepage

Relaunch Homepage 2002

CESifo Group Homepage

Relaunch Homepage 2005

CESifo Group Homepage

Relaunch Homepage 2012

CESifo Group Homepage

Current Appearance 2015

CES Pioneers Economics Video Lectures on

Homepage (since June 1998)

1999

Screenshot CESifo Website of Oct 1st 2000

Foundation of CESifo Research Network

March 1999

Research Network (based on previous CES and ifo visitors)

1.219 Network members (31 October 2015) – 265 Affiliates – 954 Fellows

Meinhard Knoche from ifo joins CESifo in 1999, to establish a close

administrative cooperation between CES, CESifo and ifo.

10,3%

Employment and Social Protection 126 members

6,1%

Energy and Climate Economics

74 members

12%

Global Economy 146 members

18%

Macro, Money and International

Finance 220 members

25,7%

Public Sector Economics 313 members

14,4%

Applied Microeconomics 175 members

7,1% Behavioural Economics 86 members

6,5% Economics of Education 79 members

Network Members by Area 2015

CESifo Journals since 2000

CESifo Journals

since 2000

since 2002

since 2003

CESifo Journals

since 2003

After Hans-Werner Sinn‘s retirement, Clemens Fuest becomes

new director of CES. 1 April 2016