November 2019 - NOeG-l - Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Call for Abstracts - Fifth ATHEA Conference "Improving Efficiency in Healthcare Systems"
by Austrian Health Economics Association (ATHEA) 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

[cid:image001.png@01D4614B.8833BAC0] Call for Abstracts Fifth ATHEA Conference for Health Economics Vienna, February 27th and 28th 2020 “Improving efficiency in healthcare systems” Digital solutions in healthcare as well as personalised medicine are expected to rapidly change the way healthcare is delivered. This will require major adaptions by the system and consequentially, reallocation of resources. Due to demographic change, overall healthcare expenditures are likely to continue to rise. Healthcare systems therefore need to know where efficiency gains can set free means for reallocation, and the expected abundance of new services needs to be evaluated in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. However, as in medicine, diagnosis is just the starting point. Agents on all levels of the healthcare system, i.e. patients, professionals, payers and policy makers, are exposed to numerous incentives that impact their decisions. In order to reorganise healthcare delivery, policy makers need to understand what hinders or furthers the use of new technologies and superior ways of healthcare delivery and how these incentives can be made more compatible with overall system goals. The fifth ATHEA conference will reflect on this line of thought with a panel discussion on the evening of February 27th, 2020, as well as two keynote lectures and special sessions on the conference day, February 28th, 2020. We are happy to announce two renowned keynote speakers: * Jeanette Brosig-Koch, professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen · Jonas Schreyögg, professor at the University of Hamburg Jeanette Brosig-Koch is director of the Essen Laboratory for Experimental Economics and professor of quantitative economic policy. Jonas Schreyögg is head of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) at the University of Hamburg, professor for management in healthcare and member of the Sachverständigenrat Gesundheit. As in previous years, submissions for presentation are welcome in all fields of health economics and health policy, including long-term care, and are not restricted to the conference topic. Deadline abstract submission (max. 500 words): December 13th, 2019, at conference(a)athea.at<mailto:conference@athea.at> Notification abstract acceptance: January 10th, 2020 Conference venue: Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna, Austria Conference languages: English, German Conference fee: 45 Euros Please also note the IDHEAS 2020 conference (Data Envelopment Analysis as an instrument to inform decisions in energy, health and the environment sectors) taking place on March 5th and 6th, 2020, at the same venue. ___________________________________________ Austrian Health Economics Association (ATHEA) Josefstädter Straße 39 ● 1080 Wien web: www.athea.at<http://www.athea.at/> ● e-mail: athea(a)athea.at<mailto:athea@athea.at>

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REMINDER: 13. November 2019, Buchpräsentation, „Bürokratische Demokratie, demokratische Bürokratie“ von Dr. Raoul Kneucker
by IHS Event 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

[cid:image003.png@01D44F54.60C7EFF0] Buchpräsentation „Bürokratische Demokratie, demokratische Bürokratie“ von Dr. Raoul Kneucker Wann: Mittwoch, 13. November 2019 17:00 – 18:30 Uhr Wo: Institut für Höhere Studien, Salon Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Wien Einleitende Worte: Thomas König Peter Biegelbauer Impulsvortrag: Raoul Kneucker Diskussion: Michal Sedlacko Ob fachkundig oder persönlich betroffen – auf Bürokratie reagieren alle. Von Beginn an war Bürokratie mit Bürokratiekritik verbunden, zugleich handelt es sich dabei auch um einen sozialwissenschaftlichen Begriff. Zwar steht die österreichische Bürokratie im „Zeitalter der Legalität“ des europäischen 20. Jahrhunderts im Mittelpunkt der insgesamt sechs Annäherungen, doch ist das Thema des Buches die Bürokratie in den europäischen Ländern und in der EU. Warum haben sich Gestalt, System und Strukturen der Bürokratie über hundert Jahre trotz enormen Wachstums und Funktionswandels der öffentlichen Verwaltung nur wenig geändert? Und warum setzte dann ausgerechnet am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts eine umso massivere Veränderung des bürokratischen Apparats in Gestalt, Struktur und System ein? Und: Gibt es Alternativen zur Bürokratie? Raoul Kneuckers verwaltungswissenschaftliche Analysen wollen Bürokratie vor Demokratie und Bürokratie für Demokratie verständlich machen – aber auch die Frage nach Demokratie für Bürokratie stellen. Eine Besonderheit ist, dass das Buch „literarische Lesarten“ als andersartige aber gleichwertige Sichtweisen zu Gestalt und Struktur der Bürokratie in die Analyse aufnimmt: Das sind die ab 1900 in der sich auflösenden Habsburger Monarchie veröffentlichten Werke von DichterInnen und DramatikerInnen, in denen Bürokratie als Thema auftaucht. Raoul Kneucker ist Verwaltungs- und Politikwissenschafter, Honorarprofessor an den Universitäten Innsbruck und Wien, und war u.a. Generalsekretär des Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) sowie bis 2002 Sektionschef für Internationale Angelegenheiten im Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft. Er hat zahlreiche Publikationen zum österreichischen Verwaltungsrecht sowie zur Forschungspolitik veröffentlicht. Die Veranstaltung ist eine Kooperation mit der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (ÖGPW<https://www.oegpw.at/startseite>). Sie findet im Rahmen der Forschungsplattform „Social Science History<https://www.ihs.ac.at/research/rp/ssh/>“ statt. Um Anmeldung unter event(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:event@ihs.ac.at> wird gebeten. Impressum<https://www.ihs.ac.at/services-for-ihs-members/impressum/> Institut für Höhere Studien – Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna How to get to the IHS<https://www.ihs.ac.at/about/contact/how-to-get-to-the-ihs/> Tel: +43-1-59991-0 Fax: +43-1-59991-555 Email: office(at)ihs.ac.at<mailto:office@ihs.ac.at> Web: www.ihs.ac.at<http://www.ihs.ac.at/> ZVR-Zahl: 066207973 Diese Zusendung erfolgt entsprechend den Bestimmungen des TKG 247107. Sollten Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen wünschen, senden Sie uns bitte eine kurze Mitteilung an: event(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:event@ihs.ac.at>. If you no longer wish to receive our mailings please send an e-mail to: event(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:event@ihs.ac.at>.

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Einladung zu Vorträgen von Prof. Proaño und Mag. Schuster, Ph.D. an der TU Wien
by Schneider, Brigitte 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Herr Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Proaño hält im Rahmen der öffentlichen Vortragsreihe "Economic Theory and Policy" am Montag, 25.11.2019 um 17:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Animal Spirits, Risk Premia and Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herr Mag. Philip Schuster, Ph.D. hält im Rahmen der öffentlichen Vortragsreihe "Economic Theory and Policy" am Montag, 9.12.2019 um 17:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "On fiscal multipliers in New Keynesian small open economy models" Wir freuen uns, Ihnen die Einladungen im Attachment übermitteln zu dürfen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Brigitte Schneider Hinweis: Möchten sich künftig keine Vortragseinladungen mehr erhalten, retournieren Sie bitte diese E-Mail an brigitte.schneider(a)econ.tuwien.ac.at<mailto:brigitte.schneider@econ.tuwien.ac.at> mit dem Wort "ABMELDUNG" in der Betreffzeile. Ihre E-Mail-Adresse wird in dem Fall umgehend aus unserem Verteiler gelöscht werden. Brigitte Schneider Forschungsgruppe Ökonomie Institut für Stochastik und Wirtschaftsmathematik (E 105-3) Technische Universität Wien Wiedner Hauptstraße 8 - 10 A-1040 Wien Tel.: +43-1-58801-10531 Fax: +43-1-58801-105399 E-Mail: brigitte.schneider(a)econ.tuwien.ac.at<mailto:brigitte.schneider@econ.tuwien.ac.at> DVR: 0005886 UID: ATU 37675002

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Einladung zur Vortragsreihe WIFO-Extern am Mittwoch, 20. November 2019, 13:30h
by WIFO-Veranstaltungen 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

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November 2019, 13:30 Uhr WIFO, Kleiner Sitzungssaal Irene Monasterolo (Vienna University of Economics and Business and Boston University) "Pricing climate financial risks under uncertainty: An application to sovereign bonds of the OeNB portfolio" Kommentar: Thomas Url (WIFO) Irene Monasterolo is an Assistant Professor of Climate Economics and Finance at the Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is research fellow at Universita' Milano Bicocca (Cefes) and was visiting scholar at Stanford University. Irene holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Statistics from the University of Bologna (IT), and two post-doctoral experiences in Cambridge (UK) and Boston University (USA). Irene's research focuses on pricing forward-looking climate risk and opportunities in the value of financial contracts and in investors' portfolios, introducing climate into standard financial risk metrics (e.g. climate Value at Risk, climate Spread). She has developed a methodological approach for climate risk assessment and management under uncertainty rooted on Agent-Based macroeconomic modelling, financial risk pricing and networks-based climate stress-testing. Her research has been published on top tier academic journals, such as Nature Climate Change. She has worked with central banks (e.g. Austrian National Bank), financial regulators (e.g. G20 task force "An International Financial Architecture for Stability and Development"), development finance institutions (e.g. European Investment Bank, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank) and the European Commission Community of Practice on Sustainable Finance. 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INVITATION: A “European Silk Road”: How can Europe tap the full potential of its home market?, 21 November 2019
by wiiw Events (noeg) 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

View this email in your browser [https://wiiw.ac.at/files/mailings/event-201911081114-en.html] _in cooperation with _ [Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)] [http://www.oenb.at/] Dear colleague, we cordially invite you to the following event: A “EUROPEAN SILK ROAD”: HOW CAN EUROPE TAP THE FULL POTENTIAL OF ITS HOME MARKET? PANEL DISCUSSION THURSDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2019, 11:30 AM (11:30 CET) Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU, Avenue de Cortenbergh 30, 1040 Brussels _Key Note_ MARIO HOLZNER Executive Director and Economist The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) _Panelists_ MAJA BAKRAN Deputy-Director General Mobility and Transport, European Commission MAREK DABROWSKI Senior Fellow, Bruegel ROMANA VLAHUTIN Ambassador at Large for Connectivity, European External Action Service _Chair_ ISABELLA LINDNER Chief Representative of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, the “New Silk Road”) is set to trigger investment in infrastructure in Asia, Africa and Europe to improve market access. So far, Europe has responded passively, although particularly the Eastern part needs modernization of its transport networks. How can the infrastructure gap be filled and Europe tap the full potential of its home market? The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) has proposed the building of a “European Silk Road”, which connects the industrial centres in the West with the populous, but less developed regions in the East of Europe. In its study the wiiw finds that a “European Silk Road” could create millions of new jobs and increase GDP by an average cumulative 3.5% in wider Europe over a ten-year period. An upgrade in the European transport infrastructure would boost incomes and living standards especially significant in the Eastern part of Europe. What does it need for this “Big Push” in infrastructure investments in greater Europe? The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies in collaboration with the Oesterreichische Nationalbank would like to invite you to discuss this issue with a distinguished panel, followed by a buffet lunch. _RSVP TO __repb(a)oenb.at_ Best regards, 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 ©2019 wiiw, all rights reserved.

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Invitation | How do monetary, micro- and macroprudential policies interact?
by Event-Management 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

E-Mail im Browser anzeigen.<http://oenb-events.com/Workshop_monetary_micro_and_macroprudential_policies…>. [https://files.oenb-events.com/108-5263c54a6ed2b412ab6fba208d1c149e.jpg] INVITATION ________________________________ Dear Sir or Madam, We have the pleasure of inviting you to a workshop organized by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) on December 2, 2019 entitled “How do monetary, micro- and macroprudential policies interact?” The global financial crisis brought to light the interactions between monetary policy and micro- and macroprudential policies and stimulated a discussion on how to optimize coordination and cooperation among these policy areas. The use of unconventional monetary policy tools has had an impact on banks and other financial institutions, whose effects need due consideration. In the euro area, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the national central banks (NCBs) have taken on additional responsibilities. All NCBs are involved in macroprudential supervision through the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and are subject to top-up powers of the ECB; several NCBs act as national designated authority and/or macroprudential authority. In the same vein, all NCBs are involved in microprudential supervision via the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which is organized under the ECB’s auspices, with many NCBs acting as national competent authority. In this workshop, we will discuss the following questions: * In what ways do these new responsibilities interact with central banks’ traditional tasks of implementing monetary policy, maintaining financial stability and providing large-value payment systems? * Are there any potential synergies in, for instance, information requirements and expertise, and complementarities, such as macroprudential supervision addressing potential negative side effects of monetary policy? * Where could conflicts of interest arise between these policy areas? In addition, we will investigate what the new responsibilities might entail for central banks’ independence and legitimacy, which have traditionally formed a cornerstone of the Eurosystem. In this context, we will look into new ways of safeguarding central bank independence in a transparent and accountable manner. Date Monday, December 2, 2019 at 9.30 a.m. (registration) Venue Oesterreichische Nationalbank Otto-Wagner-Platz 3 1090 Vienna Kassensaal, 1st floor For further information on this event and to download the latest program please visit the OeNB website<https://www.oenb.at/en/Calendar/2019/20191202_workshop.html>. Please reply to event-management(a)oenb.at<mailto:event-management@oenb.at> to receive a personal invitation. We look forward to seeing you at the workshop in December. Yours sincerely, Event-Management We appreciate your interest in receiving invitations to events organized by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. Should you no longer wish to receive invitations, please let us know by sending an e-mail to event-management(a)oenb.at<mailto:event-management@oenb.at>. For more information concerning the EU general data protection regulation please visit our website www.oenb.at/en/dataprotection<http://www.oenb.at/en/dataprotection>. Oesterreichische Nationalbank Otto-Wagner-Platz 3 1090 Vienna event-management(a)oenb.at<mailto:event-management@oenb.at> _________________ Diese Nachricht wurde vom OeNB Mailserver TLS verschluesselt empfangen Diese E-Mail kann vertrauliche Informationen enthalten und irrtümlich an Sie gelangt sein. In diesem Fall informieren Sie bitte sofort die Absenderin bzw. den Absender und vernichten Sie diese E-Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail oder von Teilen dieser Mail sind nicht gestattet. Informationen gemäß DSGVO zur Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten durch die OeNB finden Sie unter www.oenb.at/datenschutz<https://www.oenb.at/datenschutz>.

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Doktorand(inn)enstelle am Institut für VWL der Universität Klagenfurt
by vwl2 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, an der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt kommt 1 Doktorand(inn)enstelle am Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre zur Ausschreibung. Nähere Informationen dazu entnehmen Sie bitte dem angehängten Ausschreibungstext. Bewerbungsfrist ist der 11. Dezember 2019. Es wird gebeten, den beiliegenden Ausschreibungstext in Ihrem Wirkungsbereich bekannt zu machen. Die Universität strebt eine Erhöhung des Frauenanteils beim wissenschaftlichen Personal an und wir bitten Sie daher, explizit qualifizierte Frauen auf die Ausschreibung aufmerksam zu machen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christina Kopetzky [UNI_LOGO_positiv] Christina Kopetzky Inst. für Volkswirtschaftslehre / Dept. of Economics (Prof. Martin Wagner) Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Universitätsstraße 65-67 9020 Klagenfurt Tel: +43 463 2700 4102 / Fax: +43 463 2700 994102 Mail: vwl2(a)aau.at<mailto:vwl2@aau.at>

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WIC Colloquium, November 13th, 11:00-12:00
by Freund, Inga 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

WIC COLLOQUIUM Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg Education as a Lifelong Process: Design of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) and Some Research Examples from the eduLIFE Project Wednesday, November 13th, 2019, 11:00-12:00 Abstract The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) is one of the largest longitudinal studies worldwide. The NEPS aims to study the acquisition of education over the whole life course, to assess the consequences of education for later life course outcomes, and to describe and analyze central education processes and competence trajectories over the entire life span. It is organized as a network of excellence linking together the most important educational researchers from different disciplines. The NEPS is hosted by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg. The NEPS concentrates on six major dimensions of educational processes and has developed new longitudinal instruments to measure competence development, learning environments, social inequalities and educational decisions, educational processes of migrants, monetary and nonmonetary returns to education, as well as motivation and personality of individuals. Methodologically, the NEPS follows a multicohort sequence design with six parallel starting cohorts: (1) babies at the age of 6 months, (2) Kindergarten children at the age 3, (3) 5th graders, (4) 9th graders, (5) first-year college students, and (6) adults who, in most cases, had already left the educational system up to old age. In 2010, the NEPS started with more than 60,000 target persons and about 40,000 individuals (parents, teachers, school classes, peers etc.) around these persons. It follows up individuals annually with standardized competence tests and questionnaires. Each new wave of the panel study is being made available to the scientific community as quickly as possible. The lecture will describe the design of the NEPS and give some analysis examples from the eduLIFE project. For more information please see the attached file.

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WU Economic Research Seminar 13.11.19, Simon P. Anderson (University of Virginia)
by Oberhofer, Harald 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Dear colleagues, The Department of Economics cordially invites you to the WU Economic Research Seminar (Department Seminar) on Wednesday, November 13, with Simon P. Anderson (University of Virginia) on "Ducking Data Collection" Abstract: Consumers may forego transactions when they anticipate that information collected from their purchases may be sold on and used to discriminate against them in later markets. We study the sale of consumer data gathered in one market to a monopolist in a second market. As a side effect of purchasing in the first market, consumers reveal to Firm 1 their willingness-to-pay in the second market. For the benchmark case, when consumers do not know their tastes precisely in the (undisclosed) second market, the firm in the first market lowers its price to encourage data collection and fish for information. Although consumers anticipate deleterious consequences in a second market, consumer surplus and total surplus is higher than without the information fishing. Allowing consumers to opt-out worsens market performance. The main driver of this result is the fact that under either policy, consumers who evade having their data sold impose a negative externality on all consumers in the second market (since the second firm anticipates that they will have higher-than-average valuations, and therefore raises its price). We then show there are countervailing effects when consumers know their demand (type) in the second (exploitive) market. If data collection is perfect, it induces a hold-up problem whereby the second market unravels. Data collection raises profit at the expense of consumer surplus; but allowing opt-out has no effect. We model imperfect/partial data collection by assuming that the first firm can only discern the tastes of a fraction of its customers. Then fishing with opt-out is the best policy for firms and worst for consumers (vis-a-vis laissez-faire data collection or no collection). Moreover, laissez-faire data collection benefits consumers (at the expense of the data-harvesting firm) when the data-collection technology is low-yield. When consumer values in the second market are either low or high, pricing on the second market is mixed (as high value consumers "hide" just up to the point that the second firm begins to prefer to price to them exclusively.) Finally, we draw a distinction between opt-in and opt-out, which can have large welfare consequences: consumers may collectively be substantially better off when it is opting in, rather than opting out, that incurs a small nuisance cost. Time and place: Wednesday, November 13, 4.30 - 6.00 p.m., Campus WU, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, building D4, entrance A, 2nd floor, Department meeting room 2.008. With best regards, Harald Oberhofer --- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Oberhofer Institute for International Economics WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Phone: +43/1/31336-4984 Fax: +43/1/31336-4984 Email: harald.oberhofer(a)wu.ac.at<mailto:harald.oberhofer@wu.ac.at> Webpage: https://www.wu.ac.at/ie/mitarbeiter/harald-oberhofer/ Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) Phone: +43/1/7982601-468 Fax: +43/1/7989386 Email: harald.oberhofer(a)wifo.ac.at<mailto:harald.oberhofer@wifo.ac.at> Webpage: http://www.wifo.ac.at/harald_oberhofer

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REMINDER: 11.11.2019: Public Lecture: Thomas Plümper - The Gender Gap in Asylum Recognition Rates in Germany
by IHS Event 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

[cid:image003.png@01D44F54.60C7EFF0] Public Lecture The Gender Gap in Asylum Recognition Rates in Germany Wann: Montag, 11.11.2019 17 Uhr Wo: Institut für Höhere Studien, Salon Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Wien During the recent European refugee crisis, more than two million people applied for asylum in Germany. More than half of these applicants received a recognised protection status in one form or another. On average, female applicants had a slightly higher chance to gain protection than male applicants, a fact we refer to as the gender gap in asylum recognition rates. While small on average, this gender gap varies tremendously and, we show, systematically across refugees' countries of origin. We discuss four potential explanations, namely a general preference for women, gender-specific grounds for protection and persecution affecting men and women differently, differences in the demographic composition of male and female asylum-seeking populations, and, lastly, male dominance in violent crime coupled with some nationalities exhibiting a much higher prevalence of violent crime suspects than others. We show that the cross-country variation in the gender gap in asylum recognition rates can be explained by the latter three determinants, whereas controlling for these structural determinants we find no evidence for a general preference for women. Thomas Plümper<https://www.wu.ac.at/sozio/institut/pluemper-thomas> is Professor of Quantitative Social Research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Plümper was previously Professor of Government at the University of Essex and Director of the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. He is also one of the founders of the European Political Science Association and currently serves as the Association's Vize-president. Plümper has published widely on social science methodology, political economy, and in socio¬economics. His contribution to social science research on natural disasters made him a fellow of the Sendai Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction. Um Anmeldung unter event(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:event@ihs.ac.at> wird gebeten. Impressum<https://www.ihs.ac.at/services-for-ihs-members/impressum/> Institut für Höhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna How to get to the IHS<https://www.ihs.ac.at/about/contact/how-to-get-to-the-ihs/> Tel: +43-1-59991-0 Fax: +43-1-59991-555 Email: office(at)ihs.ac.at<mailto:office@ihs.ac.at> Web: www.ihs.ac.at<http://www.ihs.ac.at/> ZVR-Zahl: 066207973 Diese Zusendung erfolgt entsprechend den Bestimmungen des TKG 247107. Sollten Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen wuenschen, senden Sie uns bitte eine kurze Mitteilung an: event(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:event@ihs.ac.at>. Unsere Datenschutzerklärung finden Sie hier.<https://ihs.ac.at/de/datenschutzerklaerung> If you no longer wish to receive our mailings please send an e-mail to: event(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:event@ihs.ac.at>. You can find our privacy policy here.<https://ihs.ac.at/privacy-policy>

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