The Center for Economic Studies (CES) is an independent institute within the Faculty of Economics of the University of Munich (LMU).
It promotes the international exchange of knowledge and ideas in public finance and other areas of economics. CES invites visiting scholars to conduct their research in Munich, Germany, and to give short a lecture series in return.
Since its founding in 1991, over 670 academics have visited CES, establishing the basis for the CESifo Research Network. The work of CES is supported and supervised by an advisory council of fourteen international experts.
In 1994 CES also became the co-publisher of Economic Policy, Europe's leading academic journal in this field.[1]