Ökonomenstimme – Internet Policy Portal for German-speaking Economists

In March 2010, KOF Swiss Economic Institute has succesfully launched the policy portal “Ökonomenstimme” with 34 founding members, among them some of the best-known economists from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. "Ökonomenstimme" aims at being the focal point of the economic discussion in the German-speaking countries. The platform is modelled after the English-speaking portal “VoxEU”. Partners of “Ökonomenstimme” are the portal “VoxEU” with its founder Prof. Baldwin and Prof. Kirchgässner, Professor at the University of St. Gallen and Chairman of the KOF Advisory Board.

Since March, over 2500 people have visited the website every week. We have an ongoing inflow of new contributions from both, founding members, and "new" authors. Our media partners (Handelsblatt, Die Presse, NZZ) have published several articles in their print editions and their electronic newsletters, respectively. Radio DRS has broadcast a report about "Ökonomenstimme" in September. We also had several joint articles in English and German with our partner Vox, as well as with our Italian and French partners.

Partners of Ökonomenstimme are Vox,  LaVoce in Italy, Telos in France, Me Judice inbthe Netherlands or Nada es Gratis in Spain.

Initiators of Ökonomenstimme are:

Richard Baldwin
Gebhard Kirchgässner
Jan-Egbert Sturm

Find all founding members here.