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Einladung zum Vortrag von Dr. Klaus PRETTNER: Di., 24.03.2015, TU Wien
by Brigitte Schneider 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Dr. Klaus Prettner hält im Rahmen der öffentlichen Vortragsreihe "Economic Theory and Policy" am Di., 24.03.2015 um 15.00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Trade and Productivity: The Family Connection Redux". Wir freuen uns, Ihnen anbei die Einladung übermitteln zu dürfen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Brigitte Schneider 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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9th European Workshop on Labour, Health and Education under Demographic Change
by Kuhn, Michael 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Dear Colleagues, we are pleased to announce the 9th European Workshop on Labour, Health and Education under Demographic Change scheduled for 17-18 September 2015 in Vienna. The workshop focuses on economic analysis dealing with the interplay between demographic change and the labour market, health care and education. We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions from both a micro- and macro-economic perspective. Keynotes: Andrea Weber (University of Mannheim, CEPR, IZA, CESIfo); Hendrik Jürges (University of Wuppertal, MEA, DIW, ROA) The submission deadline for a paper or extended abstract is 1 June 2015. For further information and to download the call for papers please consult the website: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news/events/LHEDC_2015/index.html We look forward to welcoming you in Vienna. Alexia Prskawetz, Michael Kuhn and Carsten Ochsen (Organisers) ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael Kuhn Research Group Leader "Population Economics" Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences Wohllebengasse 12-14 1040 Wien Austria Tel: +43 1 51581 7742 Fax: +43 1 51581 7730 e-mail: michael.kuhn(a)oeaw.ac.at<mailto:michael.kuhn@oeaw.ac.at> URL: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/staff/staff_michael_kuhn.shtml

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Invitation: Vienna Joint Economics Seminar (March 26): Fabiano Schivardi and Hervé Crès
by Economics Department 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

[cid:image002.png@01CEBF6B.D0B28790] VIENNA JOINT ECONOMICS SEMINAR INVITATION The University of Vienna and the Department of Economics and Finance at the Institute for Advanced Studies cordially invite you to the following Vienna Joint Economics Seminar <http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Papers/20130226_Paper_Zimme…> Thursday, March 26, 2015 University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, HS 5, ground floor 4:00 pm Fabiano Schivardi<didattica.unibocconi.eu/docenti/cv.php?rif=176146i> and Hervé Crès<https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/faculty/herv-crs.html> Università Bocconi NYU Abu Dhabi The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance (Fabiano Schivardi) We analyze a matched employer-employee panel data set and find that female leadership has a positive effect on female wages at the top of the distribution, and a negative one at the bottom. Moreover, performance in firms with female leadership increases with the share of female workers. This evidence is consistent with a model where female executives are better equipped at interpreting signals of productivity from female workers. This suggests substantial costs of under-representation of women at the top: for example, if women became CEOs of firms with at least 20% female employment, sales per worker would increase 6.7%.<http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/docenti/cv.php?rif=176146i> paper jointly with Luca Flabbi, Mario Macis and Andrea Moro Economic Correctness: Why Incomplete Markets Might<http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/docenti/cv.php?rif=176146i> Never Fail. (Hervé Crès<https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/faculty/herv-crs.html>) Incomplete markets fail to promote allocative efficiency because at equilibrium shareholders typically use different present values to discount future income flows. Moreover, since shareholders disagree on how to run the firms, an aggregation mechanism needs to be designed, and it is not granted that resulting collective choices are productively efficient. We challenge this conventional wisdom in a setup where agents have heterogenous beliefs by proposing a general equilibrium notion of reciprocal aggregation: Firms aggregate the preferences of shareholders, and reciprocally shareholders update their beliefs by aggregation of perceived firms' (virtual) beliefs. We show how a mere unanimity condition for both aggregation mechanisms restores the first welfare theorem. paper jointly with Mich Tvede We are looking forward to seeing you! Institute for Advanced Studies Department of Economics and Finance Stumpergasse 56, 1060 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43 1 599 91 145 e-Mail: economics(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at> http://economics.ihs.ac.at<http://economics.ihs.ac.at/> LINKS DIRECTIONS TO UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA on Google maps<https://maps.google.at/maps?q=Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz+1,+1090+Wien+%28SR+14…> VIENNA JOINT ECONOMICS SEMINAR<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=pjgnue7cg8r0m0up9v27riruic%40grou…> on Google calendar ECONOMICS SEMINARS <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=o7e40khrmr1vn2lo20mhbe539g%40grou…> IN VIENNA<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=o7e40khrmr1vn2lo20mhbe539g%40grou…> on Google calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=o7e40khrmr1vn2lo20mhbe539g%40grou…> [cid:image003.jpg@01CEBF6B.D0B28790]<http://economics.ihs.ac.at/> [cid:image004.jpg@01CEBF6B.D0B28790]<http://econ.univie.ac.at/home/> [http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Others/FB-f-Logo__blue_512.…]<https://www.facebook.com/IHS.Economics.and.Finance> [http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Others/twitter-bird-white-o…] <https://twitter.com/IHS_Eco_Fin> [http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Others/feed-icon-28x28.png] <http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=177236688990366&format=atom10> Diese Zusendung erfolgt entsprechend den Bestimmungen des TKG 247107 Abs. 4. Sollten Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen wünschen, senden Sie uns bitte eine kurze Mitteilung an: economics(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at>. If you do not want to receive our mailings please send an e-mail to: economics(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at>. Also sent to noeg-l(a)lists.univie.ac.at<mailto:noeg-l@lists.univie.ac.at> (https://lists.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/noeg-l)

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REMINDER: Invitation: Vienna Joint Economics Seminar (March 19): Johannes Hörner
by Economics Department 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

[cid:image002.png@01CEBF6B.D0B28790] VIENNA JOINT ECONOMICS SEMINAR INVITATION R E M I N D E R The University of Vienna and the Department of Economics and Finance at the Institute for Advanced Studies cordially invite you to the following Vienna Joint Economics Seminar <http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Papers/20130226_Paper_Zimme…> Thursday, March 19, 2015 University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, HS 5, ground floor 4:00 pm Johannes Hörner<http://economics.yale.edu/people/johannes-horner> Yale University Dynamic Mechanisms without Money<https://www.ihs.ac.at/fileadmin/public/ecofin_teaching/Seminars/20150319_pa…> We analyze the optimal design of dynamic mechanisms in the absence of transfers. The designer uses future allocation decisions to elicit private information. Values evolve according to a two-state Markov chain. We solve for the optimal allocation rule, which permits a simple implementation. Unlike with transfers, efficiency decreases over time, and both immiseration and its polar opposite are possible long-run outcomes. Considering the limiting environment in which time is continuous, we demonstrate that persistence hurts. paper jointly with Yingni Guo (Northwestern University) We are looking forward to seeing you! Institute for Advanced Studies Department of Economics and Finance Stumpergasse 56, 1060 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43 1 599 91 145 e-Mail: economics(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at> http://economics.ihs.ac.at<http://economics.ihs.ac.at/> LINKS DIRECTIONS TO UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA on Google maps<https://maps.google.at/maps?q=Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz+1,+1090+Wien+%28SR+14…> VIENNA JOINT ECONOMICS SEMINAR<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=pjgnue7cg8r0m0up9v27riruic%40grou…> on Google calendar ECONOMICS SEMINARS <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=o7e40khrmr1vn2lo20mhbe539g%40grou…> IN VIENNA<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=o7e40khrmr1vn2lo20mhbe539g%40grou…> on Google calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=o7e40khrmr1vn2lo20mhbe539g%40grou…> [cid:image003.jpg@01CEBF6B.D0B28790]<http://economics.ihs.ac.at/> [cid:image004.jpg@01CEBF6B.D0B28790]<http://econ.univie.ac.at/home/> [http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Others/FB-f-Logo__blue_512.…]<https://www.facebook.com/IHS.Economics.and.Finance> [http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Others/twitter-bird-white-o…] <https://twitter.com/IHS_Eco_Fin> [http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Others/feed-icon-28x28.png] <http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=177236688990366&format=atom10> Diese Zusendung erfolgt entsprechend den Bestimmungen des TKG 247107 Abs. 4. Sollten Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen wünschen, senden Sie uns bitte eine kurze Mitteilung an: economics(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at>. If you do not want to receive our mailings please send an e-mail to: economics(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at>. Also sent to noeg-l(a)lists.univie.ac.at<mailto:noeg-l@lists.univie.ac.at> (https://lists.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/noeg-l)

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REMINDER: NOeG 2015 - Call for Papers
by noeg2015 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Dear colleagues, we are pleased to solicit your submissions for the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) 2015, to be held in Klagenfurt, Austria, June 5-6, 2015. The main theme of the conference will be "The Future of the European Economic and Monetary Union: European Monetary and Fiscal Policies". For details see the attached Call for Papers. The Plenary Lectures will be given by Ansgar Belke (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Seppo Honkapohja (Bank of Finland). The Submission deadline is March 31, 2015. Kind regards Reinhard Neck ____________________________________________________________________________________ Reinhard Neck Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre - Department of Economics Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Universitaetsstrasse 65-67, A-9020 Klagenfurt Tel. +43 463 2700 4102 - Fax +43 463 2700 994102 E-Mail: noeg2015(a)aau.at<mailto:noeg2015@aau.at> - http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/vwl/inhalt/833.htm

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wiiw lunchtime seminar, 27 March 2015
by wiiw WIENER INSTITUT 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to a lunchtime seminar on Friday, 27 March 2015, 11 am wiiw, Vienna 6, Rahlgasse 3, library 2nd floor Building conditional quantitative foresight: the MASST3 model Roberta Capello Full professor of Regional and Urban Economics, Politecnico di Milano Abstract The MASST 3 model (MAcroeconomic - Sectoral - Social - Territorial - Model) is a regional growth forecasting model, at present in its third version, has already been applied in different international projects (ESPON, DGRegio, FP7). The MASST model explains regional growth through two intertwined blocks of equations, a national block and a regional one, giving to both a role on local economic trajectories. National growth depends on the dynamics of the macroeconomic national elements: private consumption growth, private investment growth, public expenditure growth and export and import growth. This part of the model is able to capture macroeconomic effects on regional growth generated by interest rates and public expenditure policies, trends in inflation rates and wages. These policies and trends differ radically among European Countries (between Eastern and Western, Northern and Southern members). In turn, the regional differential component (i.e. the relative regional growth), is dependent on the competitiveness of the local system, based on the efficiency of local resources: the increase in the quality and quantity of production factors in infrastructure endowment, in energy resources, as well as the sectoral and territorial structure of the regions and the interregional spatial linkages. As output, MASST is able to produce regional and national GDP (growth rates and per capita), as well as employment (also divided by manufacturing and services) growth rates and levels. The MASST model has been estimated for 27 EU countries, in a period of time between 1995 and 2011; its regional sub-model has been applied to all NUTS 2 areas of the 27 countries. Roberta Capello is Full Professor of Regional and Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), and previously at the University of Molise. In the past, Roberta Capello was President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI, 2009-2010) and member of the European Regional Science International (1999-2004), of which she was also Treasurer. She was Member of the Coordination Committee of NECTAR, an International Research Network on Transport, Communication and Regional Development (1987-1992). Between 1988 and 1989, she was Visiting Research Fellow by the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies of the University of Newcastle (1988-1989). She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics at the Free University in Amsterdam, in 1993. Her first degree in Economic was awarded at Bocconi University in Milan (1986). Prof. Capello has a rich international publications record in the field of regional development and regional economics and has coordinated and/or taken part in many international research projects, several of them funded by the EU (FP, ESPON, DG Regio). Her (and Roberto Camani´s) MASST model has been widely recognised as one of the most powerful tools for regional forecasting. Best regards Univ.Prof.Dr. Michael Landesmann Mag. Roman Römisch Scientific Director wiiw Organizer -- Michaela Bönisch Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw) The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Rahlgasse 3, A-1060 Wien T: +43 1 533 66 10 - 40 F: +43 1 533 66 10 - 50 boenisch(a)wiiw.ac.at http://www.wiiw.ac.at/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you do not want to receive further mailings please send an e-mail to boenisch(a)wiiw.ac.at Falls Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen des wiiw wünschen senden Sie bitte ein E-Mail an boenisch(a)wiiw.ac.at

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Upcoming Elective Courses at IHS: Topics in Social Insurance (Stefania Albanesi) and Contract Theory (Anton van Boxtel)
by Economics Department 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Dear all, The Department of Economics and Finance at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)<https://www.ihs.ac.at/ecofin-research-teaching/> cordially invites you to the following courses: Stefania Albanesi (FED NY)<http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/economists/albanesi/> Topics in Social Insurance April 8 - 17, 2015 Syllabus<https://www.ihs.ac.at/fileadmin/public/ecofin_teaching/MSc_Teaching/Academi…> and Anton van Boxtel (IHS Vienna)<https://www.ihs.ac.at/ecofin-research-teaching/people/faculty/anton-van-box…> Contract Theory April 15 - May 15, 2015 Syllabus<https://www.ihs.ac.at/fileadmin/public/ecofin_teaching/MSc_Teaching/Academi…> If you would like to participate in these courses, please contact us at economics(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at> before the beginning of the courses. Please also get in touch with us for details on the teaching schedules. Best regards, Elisabeth Elisabeth Potzmann Department Manager, Department of Economics and Finance [cid:image001.jpg@01D0615A.D0159290] Institut für Höhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies Stumpergasse 56, 1060 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 59991 - 145 E-mail: economics(a)ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at> Web: http://economics.ihs.ac.at<http://economics.ihs.ac.at/>

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wiiw-FIW-Seminar in International Economics, 9 April 2015
by wiiw WIENER INSTITUT 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to the wiiw-FIW-Seminar in International Economics on Thursday, April 9th, 4 pm wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (ground floor) Export Behaviour of SMEs in the Swedish Computer Service Industry Martin Falk (with Eva Hagsten) WIFO Abstract Export participation of SMEs in Swedish computer services has increased rapidly over the last decade. Despite the increase, export participation rates of SMEs including micro enterprises remain rather low at 13 percent in 2010. Based on uniquely linked firm-level datasets with full coverage of micro enterprises and sole proprietors, this study investigates the determinants of export participation of Swedish SMEs in the computer service industry. Exports include both goods and services. Estimates based on the conditional logit model show a significantly positive relationship between initial labour productivity and the decision to export. An interesting and new finding is that the magnitude of the relationship between the probability to export and initial labour productivity is low once firm effects are controlled for. Surprisingly, the impact of labour productivity on exporting does not differ between micro enterprises and the remaining SMEs (10-249 employees). Furthermore, skill intensity is significantly related to the probability of exporting with low marginal effects. Overall, labour productivity and skill intensity only explain a small proportion of the export boom of Swedish software SMEs. Keywords: Exports; productivity; computer service industry; human capital; conditional logit model JEL Classification: F14 After the seminar there will be the opportunity for the speaker and the audience for further discussions, accompanied by drinks and snacks. This seminar series is an activity in the framework of FIW ('Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft'), which is a project designed to build a center of excellence in research on International Economics, funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW). The seminar programme is regularly updated. Please visit our website for the current version of the programme at: http://wiiw.ac.at/fiw-wiiw-seminars-in-international-economics-es-6.html http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=748 (Papers and presentation slides, as far as available, are posted on our homepage http://wiiw.ac.at/events.html after the respective seminars.) Best regards Julia Grübler Organizer -- Michaela Bönisch Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw) The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Rahlgasse 3, A-1060 Wien T: +43 1 533 66 10 - 40 F: +43 1 533 66 10 - 50 boenisch(a)wiiw.ac.at http://www.wiiw.ac.at/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you do not want to receive further mailings please send an e-mail to boenisch(a)wiiw.ac.at Falls Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen des wiiw wünschen senden Sie bitte ein E-Mail an boenisch(a)wiiw.ac.at

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ESOBE 2015 - European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics Conference 2015
by Sylvia Kaufmann 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Please find attached the call for papers for this year's conference. Regards, Sylvia Kaufmann Deputy Director Study Center Gerzensee Dorfstrasse 2 CH-3115 Gerzensee Phone +41 (0)31 7803112 Fax +41 (0)31 7803100 www.szgerzensee.ch<http://www.szgerzensee.ch/>

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Noeg mailing list
by Egbert Dierker 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

Please add me to the new list. Best regards, Egbert Dierker

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