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Global Insights: EU-Bonds. Is Europe Playing With Fire? Expanding EU-level issuance is justifiable.

Is Europe Playing With Fire? Nearly two dozen noted observers offer their views on EU-Bonds in the latest issue of The International Economy. The magazine of international economic policy. (For a free link to the entire debate see below.) GLO … Continue reading

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Konrad Adenauer 150

January 5, 2026: 150th birthday of Konrad Adenauer, legendary first Chancellor of Germany. In the famous In the famous Bundestag debate on the ratification of the Germany Treaty on December 3, 1952, when I was just one day old, he … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays & Season’s Greetings!

Happy holidays, best wishes for a wonderful, much better New Year, and thank you for supporting us in 2025. Drachenburg Castle near Bonn, December 20, 2025

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GLO President Zimmermann travels to Beijing

In a period of rising uncertainty in the China-German governmental relationships, GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann travels to Beijing on October 29 to co-organize a scientific conference at Renmin University of China. Zimmermann, who is a honorary professor of 3 … Continue reading

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The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Annual Conference in Halle (Saale): Artificial intelligence in society and research.

This year’s Annual Assembly of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, held in Halle (Saale), Germany, on September 25-26, 2025, is centered around the theme of artificial intelligence in all its dimensions. The gathering convenes distinguished experts from a … Continue reading

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GLO-JOPE Conference Bonn & Global – December 3-5, 2025. CALL FOR PAPERS. Submission Deadline October 23, 2025.

First Call for Papers. The Global Labor Organization (GLO), a large international network of economists and related disciplines, invites contributed papers on all areas of applied human resources issues to its annual hybrid global GLO-JOPE 2025 conference (3-5 December 2025). Supported by the Journal … Continue reading

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Springer Nature Editors Summit Heidelberg

As the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE), Klaus F. Zimmermann was invited to speak on September 19, 2025 at the Springer Nature Editor Summit in Heidelberg about the success story of the journal. On January 2024, JOPE … Continue reading

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Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association) Conference 2025 at the University of Cologne, 14-17 September 2025.

Following new strands of research at the 2025 annual conference of the traditional German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) in Cologne/Germany, 14-17 September 2025. Meetings with colleagues from the Free University of Berlin, GLO Fellows; authors of the Journal of … Continue reading

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New role as Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

I’m happy to share that I have started on September 1, 2025 a new role as Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK! I am looking forward to continue working with Professor Wenxuan Hou and his colleagues. See … Continue reading

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Visiting Iceland June 2025

After presenting research at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík (see LINK), I united with my family for a tour through the amazing capital and spectacular countryside. A local, highly experienced guide directed our small group with a car through the … Continue reading

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