The sixth WU-Workshop in Applied Econometrics (WUWAETRIX^6) will take place on June 20 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Room D5.1.002, in the D5 building). WUWAETRIX is an informal seminar on applied econometric methods jointly organized by Jesus Crespo Cuaresma (WU) and Gernot Doppelhofer (NHH-Bergen and WU). The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of ongoing research on applied econometrics, in particular by young scholars. Below is the program of the workshop. You are all invited to attend, no registration is needed.

9:00-9:30            Kilian Rieder (WU): Should Monetary Policy Lean Against The Wind? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From FED Policies In 1920

9:30-10:00          Maximilian Böck (WU): On The Empirics Of Political Stability And Economic Growth

10:00-10:30        Stefan Schiman (WIFO): Labor Supply Shocks And The Recent Shift Of The Beveridge Curve In Austria

10:30-11:00        Gregor Zens (WU): Robust Determinants Of Class Membership: Bayesian Variable Selection In Mixture Of Experts Models

11:00-11:30        Break

11:30-12:00        Michael Pfaffermayr (University of Innsbruck): Trade Creation And Trade Diversion Of Regional Trade Agreements Revisited: A Constrained Panel Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Approach

12:00-12:30        Michael Pfarrhofer (WU): Targeted Random Projections For Large-Scale VAR Models

12:30-13:30        Lunch Break

13:30-14:00        Phillip Poyntner (WU): The Effects Of The ECB's Corporate Quantitative Easing On European Firms

14:00-14:30        Simon Pröll (BOKU): Markup And Advertising In The German Brewing Sector

14:30-15:00        Niko Hauzenberger (WU): Model Instability In Predictive Exchange Rate Regressions

15:00-15:30        Paul Pelzl (OeNB): How Did The 2008-9 Financial Crisis Affect Bank Credit Supply And The Real Economy? Bank-Firm-Level Evidence From Austria

15:30-16:00        Atanas Pekanov (WIFO): Fiscal Multipliers In The East And The West

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma
Professor of Economics
Vienna University of Economics and Business

Welthandelsplatz 1

1020 Vienna (Austria)

T: +43(1)31336-4530
F: +43(1)31336-728
E: jcrespo@wu.ac.at

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