Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir möchten Sie herzlich zum FIW-Workshop Regional Economics einladen, der am 12. Und 13. Dezember an der WU Wien stattfinden wird. Programm und Informationen zur Anmeldung entnehmen Sie bitte dem untenstehenden Programm oder der FIW-Website: https://blog.fiw.ac.at/fiw-workshop-regional-economics/ Um Anmeldung wird gebeten: https://fiw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/fiw-workshops/33-fiw-workshop-on-regional-... Mit freundlichen Grüßen Alexander Hudetz FIW-Projektbüro FIW-Workshop Regional Economics Time: December 12th - December 13th, 2022 Venue: Vienna University of Economics and Business LC (Library Center) - gallery (LC.0.004)<https://campus.wu.ac.at/?campus=1&q=gallery> Welthandelsplatz 1 1020 Vienna, Austria Funded by: FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Austria Organized by: Peter Egger (ETH Zürich) Alexander Hudetz (WIFO) Harald Oberhofer (WU Vienna, WIFO) Contact: FIW-Project Office (fiw-pb@fiw.ac.at<mailto:fiw-pb@fiw.ac.at>) We kindly ask for registration until December 6th, 2022: https://fiw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/fiw-workshops/33-fiw-workshop-on-regional-... Program Day 1: December 12th, 2022 Opening Remarks: 10:45 a.m. Session I: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Chair: Peter Egger Valeria Merlo (University Tübingen) Identifying tax-response functions from local fiscal policy programs (with Andreas Schanbacher, Georg Thunecke und Georg Wamser) Katharina Erhardt (hhu Düsseldorf) Winners and losers of the 2015 Swiss exchange rate shock: Unveiling heterogeneous worker responses (with Patrick Ani, Peter Egger, Matthias Gubler, Philip Sauré) Lunch Break: 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Session II: 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. - Chair: Harald Oberhofer Julia Bachtrögler-Unger (WIFO) Euroscepticism and EU Cohesion Policy: The impact of micro-level policy effectiveness on voting behaviour (with Harald Oberhofer) Giovanni Facchini (University of Nottingham) Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion (with Roberto Bonfatti, Alexander Tarasov, Gian Luca Tedeschi, Cecilia Testa) Coffee Break: 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Keynote lecture I: 3:44 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Treb Allen (Darthmouth College) The Topography of Nations Adjourn Day 2: December 13th, 2022 Keynote lecture II: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Costas Arkolakis (Yale University) Clean Growth Coffee Break: 10:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Session III: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. Chair: Peter Egger Pamina Koenig (Université of Rouen-Normandie, Paris School of Economics) Sold to China: the impact of port ownership on container traffic (with Claude Duvallet, Yoann Pigné, Sandra Poncet, Mathieu Sanch Maritan) Claudia Steinwender (LMU Munich) All aboard: The effects of port development (with César Ducruet, Réka Juhász, Dávid Kriztián Nagy) Break: 12:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Session IV: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Sun Kyoung Lee (University of Michigan) European Immigrants and the United States's Rise to the Technological Frontier (with Costas Arkolakis, Michael Peters) Peter Egger (ETH Zürich) China's Dazzling Transport-infrastructure Growth: Measurement and Effects (with Gabriel Loumeau & Nicole Loumeau) End of Workshop