In order to promote learning from other policy areas and to facilitate a structured dialogue between policymakers and academia, the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina, in cooperation with the Deutsche Bundesbank, organized a workshop in 2018.13 Here are examples of issues that were addressed in this workshop.
In Germany, the Federal Ministry of Finance has been conducting so-called “spending reviews” since 2018; analysing revenues and spending decisions and scrutinizing their effectiveness and efficiency.14 The German National Regulatory Control Council has developed a concept for structuring ex-post impact assessments applying to all funds spend by the federal government and, more recently, argued in the favor introducing quality standards for such evaluations.15 An area in which policy evaluation in Germany has advanced most are labor market reforms.