The CESifo Research Network has attained another major milestone: in late April it grew to encompass 500 members. The privilege of being a round-numbered member went to Ingo Vogelsang, at the time a guest researcher at CES.

Founded in 1999, the CESifo Research Network links outstanding economists from 23 countries and covers the complete spectrum of economic research.

The Network, which counts four Nobel laureates among its members, is unusually selective. No other network enjoys such a close relationship to a university: all its members have previously been guest researchers at the the University of Munich’s Center for Economic Studies or, more recently, at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. Furthermore, after their visit they are subjected to a stringent selection process.

Once accepted, members enjoy access to exclusive CESifo-organised conferences, receive the CESifo English-language publications and have their working papers delivered to a worldwide audience. CESifo also fosters various research projects carried out by Network members in co-operation with CESifo Group in-house researchers.

Ingo Vogelsang is an internationally renowned expert in the economics of network industries. Born in Hamburg, he holds a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg and a post-doctoral degree from the University of Bonn. He is now a Professor of Economcis at the University of Boston, where he has lived for the past 25 years with his wife and two daughters. He used to run his family’s coal import business. But “it wasn’t what I wanted to do”, he says. Something did remain, though: as an economist, he specialised in the economics of his former clients, the power utilities.

• CESifo Working Papers by Ingo Vogelsang
• CESifo Research Network
• CESifo Working Papers published in the past three months

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