The Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik) is a research facility located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
Upon completion in 1980, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law merged into it.
Its director until 1990 was Hans F. Zacher, who was succeeded by Bernd Baron von Maydell until 2002.
[2] In July 2011 the institute were enlarged with a second department, the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) headed by Axel Börsch-Supan.
The Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) studies the micro- and macroeconomic aspects of demographic change including saving and retirement decisions, pension systems, health of older people.