February 2018 - NOeG-l - Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Veranstaltung "Experten bewerten - das Regierungsprogramm auf dem Prüfstand: Bildungspolitik" 14. Februar 2018
by Weis[s]er Salon 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich lade Sie herzlich zur dritten Veranstaltung der Reihe "Experten bewerten das Regierungsprogramm auf dem Prüfstand: Bildungspolitik" am Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2018 18:30 Uhr (Einlass 18:00) im Konferenzsaal, Presseclub Concordia, Bankgasse 8, 1010 Wien, ein - eine Kooperationsveranstaltung mit der Initiative für starke Schulen <http://www.starkeschulen.at/> Podiumsdiskussion Moderation: Manfred Meraner, Geschäftsführer des Veritas Verlags Claudia Resch, Geschäftsführerin des Österreichischen Zentrums für Begabtenförderung und Begabungsforschung Raphaela Keller, Vorsitzende des Österreichischen Berufsverbandes der Kindergarten- und HortpädagogInnen Isabella Zins, Vorsitzende des Vereins der Direktorinnen und Direktoren der allgemein bildenden höheren Schulen Österreichs Susanne Schmid, Die Weis[s]e Wirtschaft Anmeldung und Details zum Programm finden Sie hier <http://www.weissewirtschaft.at/event/experten-bewerten-das-regierungsprogra mm-auf-dem-pruefstand-bildungspolitik/> ! (Programm als pdf <http://www.weissewirtschaft.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Einladung-Weisser -Salon-Regierungsprogramm-14-02-2018.pdf> ) Save the date: Thema Migrationspolitik am 27.2.2018, 18:30 (detaillierte Einladung erfolgt nach dem 14.2.2018) Mit freundlichen Grüßen Peter Brandner

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FIW-News: Veranstaltungen im Februar
by fiw-pb 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

[FIW_Logo_de_en] Please click here for the English version Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir freuen uns, Sie über die neuesten Entwicklungen des FIW-Projekts informieren zu dürfen. Dieses Mal mit folgendem Inhalt: · Reminder: 23. FIW-Workshop " Trade and Environment – Interrelations between climate & trade policy: impacts on international trade flows and carbon emissions · Reminder: Einladung zur 28. AW-Vorlesung am 13.2.2018 · Wiiw-FIW-Seminar in International Economics am 19.2.2018 Reminder: Einladung zum 23. FIW-Workshop " Trade and Environment – Interrelations between climate & trade policy: impacts on international trade flows and carbon emissions" FIW-Workshop Trade and Environment – Interrelations between climate & trade policy: impacts on international trade flows and carbon emissions Time: 20th of February, 2018 8:30 – 12:30 Location: Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) Arsenal, Object 20 1030 Vienna Programme 8:30 Registration, coffee 9:00 Opening Remarks: Margit Schratzenstaller (WIFO), Manfred Schekulin (BMDW) 9:15 Session I – Chair: Harald Oberhofer (WIFO, WU) · 9:15-10:00: Gabriel Felbermayr (Ifo Institute, University of Munich) The Carbon Content of International Trade: Effects of the Kyoto Protocol · 10:00-10:45: Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso (University of Göttingen) Are RTA Agreements with Environmental Provisions reducing Emissions? 10:45 Coffee break 11:00 Session II – Chair: Yvonne Wolfmayr (WIFO) · 11:00-11:45: Mario Larch (University of Bayreuth) International Trade, Uni- and Multilateral Climate Policy, and Carbon Leakage · 11:45-12:30: Joseph Francois (World Trade Institute Bern) Value Chains, Carbon Accounting, and Carbon Accountability 12:30 End of Workshop Registration is necessary – please register until 15th of February, 2018 on https://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=1071 Further Information regarding the speakers & presented papers is available at https://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=1069&L=1 Reminder: Einladung zur 28. AW-Vorlesung am 13.2.2018 E I N L A D U N G 28. AW-Vorlesung Dienstag, 13. Februar 2018 Priv.-Doz. Dr. Klaus Weyerstraß (IHS) "Entwicklung, Determinanten und Bedeutung der totalen Faktorproduktivität" Begrüßung: Sektionschefin Mag. Bernadette Gierlinger (BMDW) Kommentare: Mag. Marlis Müllner (ABA) Diskussionsleitung: Dr. Manfred Schekulin (BMDW) Literatur: FIW-Policy Brief Nr. 38 (forthcoming Februar 2018) Zeit: 9:15 Uhr (pünktlich) bis 10:30 Uhr Ort: Wirtschaftsministerium, Stubenring 1, 1010 Wien, 5. Stock, Pressezentrum AW-Vorlesungen ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe, bei der politikrelevante aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Bereich internationale Wirtschaft praxisnah präsentiert und diskutiert werden. Für Kaffee ist gesorgt. Anmeldung erforderlich unter: https://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=1073#15025 wiiw-FIW-Seminar in International Economics Monday, 19 February 2018, 3.00 – 4.30 pm wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna International Value-Added Linkages in Development Accounting Alejandro Cuñat (University of Vienna and CESifo) The presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Robert Zymek (University of Edinburgh and CESifo). Abstract We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are determined by bilateral trade frictions (which underpin the patterns of “international value-added linkages”) and the global distribution of factor endowments and ﬁnal expenditures. We use information on endowments, trade balances and value-added trade to back out the relative factor costs of 40 major economies in a theory-consistent manner. This reduces the variation in “residual” TFP required to explain the observed per-capita income diﬀerences by more than one half. JEL Codes: E01, F15, F40, F62, F63. Keywords: world input-output, development accounting, transfer eﬀect. We kindly ask you to register<https://wiiw.ac.at/international-value-added-linkages-in-development-accoun…> for the event. Participation is free of charge. This seminar series is an activity of the Research Centre International Economics FIW, which is a project of WIFO, wiiw and WSR on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Digital, Business and Enterprise (BMDW). The FIW cooperation with the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the University Vienna, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Innsbruck is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). The seminar programme is regularly updated. Please visit the wiiw<http://wiiw.ac.at/fiw-wiiw-seminars-in-international-economics-es-6.html> or FIW website<http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=748> for the current version of the programme. Papers and presentation slides, as far as available, are posted on our webpage<http://wiiw.ac.at/events.html> after the respective seminars. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Alexander Hudetz FIW - Projektbüro Es entspricht nicht unserer Philosophie Ihnen unerwünschte E-Mails zukommen zu lassen. Falls Sie keine weiteren E-Mails vom FIW erhalten möchten, schreiben Sie bitte an das Projektbüro<mailto:fiw-pb@fiw.at> mit dem Betreff "Abmelden". __________________________________ Das Kompetenzzentrum FIW (http://www.fiw.ac.at/) ist ein Projekt des WIFO, wiiw und WSR im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Digitalisierung und Wirtschaftsstandort. Die FIW-Kooperationen mit der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, der Universität Wien, der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz und der Universität Innsbruck werden vom Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung gefördert.. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen! We are glad to inform you about the latest news on the FIW project. · Reminder: 23rd " Trade and Environment – Interrelations between climate & trade policy: impacts on international trade flows and carbon emissions · Invitation: 28th AW-Lecture "Entwicklung, Determinanten und Bedeutung der totalen Faktorproduktivität" · wiiw-FIW-Seminar in International Economics Reminder: 23rd FIW-Workshop " Trade and Environment – Interrelations between climate & trade policy: impacts on international trade flows and carbon emissions" FIW-Workshop Trade and Environment – Interrelations between climate & trade policy: impacts on international trade flows and carbon emissions Time: 20th of February, 2018 8:30 – 12:30 Location: Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) Arsenal, Object 20 1030 Vienna Programme 8:30 Registration, coffee 9:00 Opening Remarks: Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger (WIFO), Manfred Schekulin (BMWFW) 9:15 Session I – Chair: Harald Oberhofer (WIFO, WU) · 9:15-10:00: Gabriel Felbermayr (Ifo Institute, University of Munich) The Carbon Content of International Trade: Effects of the Kyoto Protocol · 10:00-10:45: Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso (University of Göttingen) Are RTA Agreements with Environmental Provisions reducing Emissions? 10:45 Coffee break 11:00 Session II – Chair: Yvonne Wolfmayr (WIFO) · 11:00-11:45: Mario Larch (University of Bayreuth) International Trade, Uni- and Multilateral Climate Policy, and Carbon Leakage · 11:45-12:30: Joseph Francois (World Trade Institute Bern) Value Chains, Carbon Accounting, and Carbon Accountability 12:30 End of Workshop Registration is necessary – please register until 15th of February, 2018 on https://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=1071 Further Information regarding the speakers & presented papers is available at https://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=1069&L=1 Invitation: 28th AW-Lecture "Entwicklung, Determinanten und Bedeutung der totalen Faktorproduktivität" E I N L A D U N G 28. AW-Vorlesung Dienstag, 13. Februar 2018 Priv.-Doz. Dr. Klaus Weyerstraß (IHS) "Entwicklung, Determinanten und Bedeutung der totalen Faktorproduktivität" Begrüßung: Sektionschefin Mag. Bernadette Gierlinger (BMDW) Kommentare: Mag. Marlis Müllner (ABA) Diskussionsleitung: Dr. Manfred Schekulin (BMDW) Literatur: FIW-Policy Brief Nr. 38 Zeit: 9:15 Uhr (pünktlich) bis 10:30 Uhr Ort: Wirtschaftsministerium, Stubenring 1, 1010 Wien, 5. Stock, Pressezentrum AW-Vorlesungen ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe, bei der politikrelevante aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Bereich internationale Wirtschaft praxisnah präsentiert und diskutiert werden. Für Kaffee ist gesorgt. Anmeldung erforderlich unter: https://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=1073#15025 The Lecture will be held in German language. wiiw-FIW-Seminar in International Economics Monday, 19 February 2018, 3.00 – 4.30 pm wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna International Value-Added Linkages in Development Accounting Alejandro Cuñat (University of Vienna and CESifo) The presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Robert Zymek (University of Edinburgh and CESifo). Abstract We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are determined by bilateral trade frictions (which underpin the patterns of “international value-added linkages”) and the global distribution of factor endowments and ﬁnal expenditures. We use information on endowments, trade balances and value-added trade to back out the relative factor costs of 40 major economies in a theory-consistent manner. This reduces the variation in “residual” TFP required to explain the observed per-capita income diﬀerences by more than one half. JEL Codes: E01, F15, F40, F62, F63. Keywords: world input-output, development accounting, transfer eﬀect. We kindly ask you to register<https://wiiw.ac.at/international-value-added-linkages-in-development-accoun…> for the event. Participation is free of charge. This seminar series is an activity of the Research Centre International Economics FIW, which is a project of WIFO, wiiw and WSR on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Digital, Business and Enterprise (BMDW). The FIW cooperation with the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the University Vienna, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Innsbruck is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). The seminar programme is regularly updated. Please visit the wiiw<http://wiiw.ac.at/fiw-wiiw-seminars-in-international-economics-es-6.html> or FIW website<http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=748> for the current version of the programme. Papers and presentation slides, as far as available, are posted on our webpage<http://wiiw.ac.at/events.html> after the respective seminars. Kind regards Alexander Hudetz FIW Project Office _____________________________________________________ The Research Centre International Economics FIW is a project of WIFO, wiiw and WSR on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Digital, Business and Enterprise. The FIW cooperation with the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the University Vienna, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Innsbruck is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.

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Kurt Rothschild Preis 2018: Montag, 15. Jänner 2018: Start der Einreichfrist / Freitag, 27. April 2018: Ende der Einreichfrist
by Altzinger, Wilfried 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Das Karl-Renner-Institut<http://www.renner-institut.at/das-karl-renner-institut/ziele/> und der SPÖ-Parlamentsklub<https://klub.spoe.at/> vergeben den Kurt Rothschild Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik. Der Preis erinnert an die großen Leistungen des österreichischen Ökonomen, der mit seinem Wirken Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft in Österreich nachhaltig geprägt hat. Insbesondere seine Zeit im Exil - als Sozialist jüdischer Herkunft musste Rothschild nach dem Einmarsch Hitlers aus Österreich fliehen - hat dazu beigetragen, dass Kurt Rothschild immer einen sozialen Anspruch an die als Wissenschaft betriebene Ökonomie gestellt hat. http://www.renner-institut.at/kurt-rothschild-preis/ ________________________________ Zeitplan Montag, 15. Jänner 2018: Start der Einreichfrist Freitag, 27. April 2018: Ende der Einreichfrist Sommer 2018: Juryentscheidung Herbst 2018: Preisverleihung ******************************************** Altzinger Wilfried Vienna University of Economics and Business Department of Economics Research Institute 'Economics of Inequality<https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/>' Welthandelsplatz 1 / D4.2.032<http://gis.wu.ac.at/index2.html?roomShow=altzinger> A-1020 Vienna Personal Homepage<http://www.wu.ac.at/vw1/m/altzing> ++ 43 676 8213 4511 ********************************************

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INVITATION: FIW-wiiw Seminars in International Economics, 19 February 2018
by wiiw Events (noeg) 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

View this email in your browser [https://wiiw.ac.at/files/mailings/event-201802010946-en.html] _in cooperation with _ [Research Centre International Economics (FIW)] [http://fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=1&L=3] Dear colleague, we cordially invite you to the following event: INTERNATIONAL VALUE-ADDED LINKAGES IN DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTING ALEJANDRO CUÑAT University of Vienna and CESifo MONDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2018, 3:00 PM (15:00 CET) wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna FIW-wiiw Seminars in International Economics [https://wiiw.ac.at/fiw-wiiw-seminars-in-international-economics-es-6.html] This study investigates the effect of trade liberalisation on GDP per capita in a global panel of countries. While the theoretical literature broadly suggests a positive impact, the empirical verification of this relationship is complicated by the well-known problem of endogeneity. A relatively new approach to overcome this limitation is the synthetic control method (SCM), which compares the post-liberalisation GDP trajectory of a country that liberalised with the trajectory of a combination of similar economies that did not liberalise. Although this method is widely praised for being data-driven, transparent and less prone to specification searching, it has recently come under heavy criticism for actually failing to meet any of these criteria. The aim of this study is, therefore, to reassess the trade-income-relationship in light of the current debate on the possibilities and limitations of SCM, and to extend earlier studies by estimating the average effect of liberalisation for different groups of countries. ...more [https://wiiw.ac.at/international-value-added-linkages-in-development-accoun…] WE KINDLY ASK YOU TO REGISTER [https://wiiw.ac.at/bc-e-er-374.html] for the event. Participation is free of charge. Best regards, Julia Grübler [https://wiiw.ac.at/julia-gruebler-s-866.html] _Organiser_ Robert Stehrer [https://wiiw.ac.at/robert-stehrer-s-16.html] _Scientific Director_ wiiw The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, Austria wiiw(a)wiiw.ac.at, wiiw.ac.at [https://wiiw.ac.at] T: +43 1 533 66 10 [tel:+4315336610] [http://www.facebook.com/wiiw.economic.studies] [http://www.twitter.com/wiiw_news] [http://www.linkedin.com/company/vienna-institute-for-international-economic…] [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNuSfsgzgBsIf7AaH8Vk-Q] [https://wiiw.ac.at/rss.php] Copyright ©2018 wiiw, all rights reserved.

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NOeG 2018 Konferenz
by Schneider, Brigitte 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Dear colleagues, Enclosed please find the third call for papers for the Annual Meeting & 100th Anniversary of the Austrian Economic Association (NOEG 2018), which will be held at TU Wien on 11-12 May 2018. Please note that the submission deadline on 19 February 2018 is approaching quickly. We are pleased to announce Jonathan S. Skinner ("The Elusive Link Between Health Care Spending and Health Outcomes") and Andrew Jones ("Equity, opportunity and health") as keynote speakers. Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that Elias Mossialos will give a kick-off speech to the panel discussion "Sozialversicherungsstudie - Was ist schon geschehen und wohin gehen wir?", which will be organized in cooperation with the Austrian Health Economics Association (athea). Further information can be found on the conference website at: http://noeg2018.econ.tuwien.ac.at. Looking forward to see you in Vienna! Best regards, for the Programme and Organizational Committee Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Bernhard Rengs, Michael Kuhn, Timo Trimborn and Thomas Czypionka noeg2018(a)econ.tuwien.ac.at<mailto:noeg2018@econ.tuwien.ac.at> http://noeg2018.econ.tuwien.ac.at

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