June 2019 - NOeG-l - Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Invitation: June 17, Georgiana Mihut: The impact of university prestige in the employment process
by IHS Event 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

[cid:image003.png@01D44F54.60C7EFF0] Presentation The impact of university prestige in the employment process Georgiana Mihut When: June 17th, 2019, 4:00 pm Where: Institut für Höhere Studien, Salon Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Wien Georgiana Mihut wrote her PhD on the impact of university prestige in the employment process. She conducted a field experiment in three countries - the USA, United Kingdom and Australia. In order to find out how employers react to university prestige and skills match, Mihut sent out 2,400 fictitious applications and analyzed the callbacks. Her experiment focused on the fields of the skill-intensive sectors of information and communication technology and accounting. She will present the interesting results of her study followed by a discussion on the topic. Georgina Mihut has recently received a PhD in Educational Leadership and Higher Education from Boston College. Her research interests span a wide array of topics in international and comparative higher education, including employability, stratification, equity, and quality. She has worked with the American Council on Education, the Boston College Center for International Higher Education, the World Bank and Harvard University. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's degree in Research and Innovation in Higher Education, a MA in Education and Globalization from University of Oulu, Finland, and a BA of Political Science from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania. Recently, Georgina Mihut has been granted a two-months Ernst Mach Grant - Worldwide award from the OeAD. She will use the scholarship to complete the project "Stratification and equity. The effects of university prestige in the labor market," under the supervision of Martin Kocher at the IHS in June and July 2019. We cordially invite you to this presentation<https://www.ihs.ac.at/events/detail/event/termin/the-impact-of-university-p…> and are looking forward to seeing you! Please register at event(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:event@ihs.ac.at>. 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>. Also sent to noeg-l(a)wu.ac.at<mailto:noeg-l@wu.ac.at> (https://mailman.wu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/noeg-l.)

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June 12 and June 13, 2019: Lord Robert Skidelsky on "Technology and Utopia" and "What is Wrong with Economics?"
by IHS Event 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

[cid:image003.png@01D44F54.60C7EFF0] Public Lecture and Discussion Two Events with Lord Robert Skidelsky Jointly organized with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) Public Lecture: Technology and Utopia Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 2:00 pm With his characteristic attention to the subtleties of the human condition, Robert Skidelsky offers a challenging account of what it means to pursue the good life in the age of the machines. For more details click here.<https://www.ihs.ac.at/events/detail/event/termin/technology-and-utopia/> Chaired by Robert Braun To register for this event please click here<mailto:event@ihs.ac.at?subject=Registration:%20Public%20Lecture,%20Lord%20Skidelsky,%20June%2012,%202019> Discussion: What is Wrong with Economics? Date: Thursday, June 13, 2019 4:00 pm Robert Skidelsky's work is a clarion call for more pluralism within economics and an appeal for a discipline that is sensitive to both the subtleties of human behaviour and the contingency of its own methods. For more details click here.<https://www.ihs.ac.at/events/detail/event/termin/robert-skidelsky-what-is-w…> To register for this event please click here<mailto:event@ihs.ac.at?subject=Registration:%20Discussion,%20Lord%20Skidelsky,%20June%2013,%202019> Robert Skidelsky is the 2019 Fellow of the joint IHS-IWM Fellowship Program. Now an emeritus professor of political economy at Warwick University, he was made a member of the House of Lords in 1991, and is a fellow of the British Academy. Lord Skidelsky is best known for his three-volume biography of the eminent British economist John Maynard Keynes. Venue: Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Salon Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna How to get to IHS<https://www.ihs.ac.at/about/contact/how-to-get-to-the-ihs/> 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 Tel: +43-1-59991-0 Fax: +43-1-59991-555 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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Ad-hoc WU WU Economic Seminar 17.6.19, Ron Davies (University College Dublin)
by Oberhofer, Harald 04 Jun '19

04 Jun '19

Dear colleagues, The Department of Economics cordially invite you to an ad-hoc WU Economic Research Seminar on June 17, with Ron Davies (University College Dublin) on "Innovation and the Technological Content of Imports" (joint with Igor Bagayev and Dieter F. Kogler) Abstract: There is a long-standing belief that exposure to innovation in other countries affects innovation at home. This exposure happens, among other ways, via importing. Three mechanisms are discussed: import competition (which, as the market shrinks, theoretically has an ambiguous effect), importing of inputs (which, by lowering costs, encourages innovation), and diffusion (exposure to new ideas which spurs new innovation). To date, the empirical literature has been forced to focus on the product level which hinders the ability to separate these three channels because it does not speak to the technology content of the imports. When technologies embodied in one product affect innovation in another, such as via diffusion, this misses a key facet of the spread of innovation. By using a new mapping between products and technologies, we are able to shift the analysis to the technology class level, permitting us to separate out these three channels. Using global data on trade and patents over a 35 year period, we find robust evidence for diffusion across countries and time. When controlling for diffusion, import competition switches from a positive effect to a negative one and imported inputs become insignificant, suggesting potential biases in the existing literature. Among other things, this suggests that while protection in a given product may have positive effects for innovation in that industry, it can have simultaneous negative effects in others. Time and place: Monday, June 17, 4.30 pm - 6 pm, Campus WU, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, building D4, entrance A, ground floor, room 0.019 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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