Hamburg Institute for International Economics
| Hamburg Institute for International Economics | |
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| founded in the year | 2005 |
| City | Hamburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Website | http://www.hwwi.org/ |
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| Networks | Stockholm Network, Think Tank |
| Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties). | Austerity politics |
| Last revision | 9.06.2015 |
| Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once. | |
| People n = 5 | |
| Presences n = 27 | |
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Think Tank,5 Business,4 Media,8 Politics,0 Academia,8 NGO,2 </pPie> | |
| Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once. | |
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Author,1 Leader (CEO etc.),9 Consultant,2 Editor,0 Interviewee,8 Member,4 Participant,0 Lecturer,1 Employee,2 </pPie> | |
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Organizational Structure and Funding
Address
- Zentrale: Heimhuder Straße 71, 20148, Hamburg
People
Executive board
People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).
- Henning Vöpel (09/2014-), director
- Thomas Straubhaar (2005-2014), Director
- Christian Growitsch (09/2014-), director
Staff
People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.
- Michael Bräuninger, director of research
- Jörg Hinze (2007-2013), senior economist
Advisory board
People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)
Supervisory board
People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).
Experts
Experts are not permanently employed at the Think Tank. They are paid for contract research when their expertise is needed. Some Think Tanks call a database of hundred or even more experts their own.
- Joachim Zweynert, research fellow
Topics
We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.
Semantic Fields
What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.
- Eurocrisis and financial consolidaton (Austerity Politics): Presents four strategies for coping with the eurocrisis. Focusses on stricter and binding rules for the financial policy and the process of debt reduction.[1]
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