: The Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK)

The Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) is an independent academic institute within the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, a non-profit organisation fostering co-determination and promoting research and academic study. The Foundation is linked to the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB). The IMK was founded in 2005 to strengthen the macroeconomic perspective both in economic research and in the economic policy debate. The IMK analyses business cycle developments and conducts economic policy research, notably on fiscal and monetary policy, labour markets, income distribution and financial markets. The Institute seeks to address the challenges facing macroeconomics and economic policy in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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29th FMM Conference: Gendering Macroeconomics

Gender plays a crucial role in many macroeconomic areas, including, for example, how fiscal policy or crises generate different outcomes for men, women, and non-binary individuals, and gender inequalities have substantial macroeconomic consequences. These disparities are often deeply entwined with labor market dynamics, where gender wage gaps, gendered and racial profiling of jobs and segregation, and inequalities in the distribution of paid and unpaid work persist. Such inequalities are further compounded by the systemic undervaluation of unpaid labor as well as paid care work, disproportionately carried out by women.

Documentation

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10th International FMM Summer School

The summer school aims at providing an introduction to Keynesian macroeconomics and to the problems of European economic policies to interested graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers. It will consist of overview lectures, a panel discussion, student study groups, an SFC lab, and a poster session.

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Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies

The FMM aims to be both a platform for discussions about economic theory as well as a forum for economic policy debates. The forum seeks to promote an exchange between competing theoretical paradigms.

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Publications

The IMK regularly publishes in several of its own publication series.

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Current Publications

  • Matthieu Bordenave, Giovanna Ciaffi : Measuring Green Fiscal Multipliers: Heterogeneity in European Countries

    This paper evaluates the macroeconomic impact of green public spending by quantifying the responses of GDP, private investment, employment, and labour productivity across 30 European countries from 1995 to 2020.

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    to the FMM Working Paper No. 121 

  • Benjamin Jungmann, Eckhard Hein, Juan Manuel Campana : A post-Keynesian open economy model of conflict inflation, distribution, employment, and external balance

    Post-Keynesian conflict inflation models have received renewed attention in the course of the recent inflationary processes related to the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 and the hike of energy prices in the context of the start of the Russian war on Ukraine in 2022.

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    to the FMM Working Paper No. 120 

  • Ekaterina Jürgens, Sebastian Gechert : Passing the partisan filter: Political narratives, partisan bias and opinions on public finances

    This paper examines how political partisanship and campaign narratives shape German voters’ views on public finances, finding no average narrative effect but evidence that partisan preferences strongly condition preferences, supporting the theory of partisan bias and selective influence of emotionally charged narratives.

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    to the IMK Working Paper No. 227 

  • Robert A. Blecker : Conflict and cooperation in international trade: post-Keynesian perspectives

    The revival of economic nationalism poses a challenge to neoclassical orthodoxy, which claims that liberalized international trade is (subject to a few recognized exceptions) inherently cooperative and mutually beneficial. Post-Keynesian open economy models demonstrate that international trade relations can be conflictive under certain conditions.

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    to the FMM Working Paper No. 119 

  • Krämer, Hagen : Power, Wages, and the Market: Kurt Rothschild’s Vision of Distribution in a Post-Keynesian Framework

    Since income distribution is a central theme in Rothschild’s research, this paper examines his contributions to post‐Keynesian distribution theory. Following a brief overview of his life, academic formation, and the historical context that shaped his thinking, the paper explores his theoretical innovations, emphasizing his rejection of mono‐causal explanations in favor of an approach that integrates economic, political, and social dynamics.

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    to the FMM Working Paper 118 

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    The Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) aims to be both a platform for discussions about economic theory as well as a forum for economic policy debates. In particular, the forum seeks to promote an exchange between competing theoretical paradigms.

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