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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

wir freuen uns, Sie über die kommenden Veranstaltungen im Rahmen des FIW-Projekts informieren zu dürfen.

Diesmal mit folgendem Inhalt:

· FIW-Vorlesung „Greening Trade? Umweltbestimmungen in Handelsabkom-men" | 17.11.2022

· FIW-Spotlight: Außenhandelsprognose: Einbruch der Dynamik der Warenexporte im Winterhalbjahr 2022/23 zu erwarten

· Seminar in International Economics: O-Ring Production Networks (Online event) | 09.11.2022

· Seminar in International Economics: Evaluating the implementation of the DCFTAs between the EU, Georgia and Moldova (Online event) | 24.11.2022

· Seminar in International Economics: The Balance of Concessions in the Trade Agreements (Online event) | 01.12.2022

· Reminder: AW-Curriculum: Monetäre Aspekte der Außenwirtschaft(spolitik) (Webinar) | 10.11.2022

46. FIW-Vorlesung „Greening Trade? Umweltbestimmungen in Handelsabkommen" | 17.11.2022

Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Wirtschaft sowie das FIW laden ein zur

46. FIW-Vorlesung

„Greening Trade? Umweltbestimmungen in Handelsabkommen“

Bettina Meinhart, MSc (WIFO)

Begrüßung: Sektionschefin Mag. Cynthia Zimmermann (BMAW)

Koreferat: Mag. Claudia Stowasser (WKO)

Diskussionsleitung: Dr. Manfred Schekulin (BMAW)

Literatur: FIW-Policy Brief Nr. 55

Anmeldung erforderlich unter:

https://fiw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/fiw-vorlesungen/anmeldung-zur-46-aw-vorlesung

Donnerstag, 17. November 2022, 9:30 h (pünktlich) bis 10:30 h

Stubenring 1, 1010 Wien, 1. Stock, Marmorsaal (Saal I)

FIW-Vorlesungen ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe, bei der politikrelevante aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Bereich internationale Wirtschaft praxisnah präsentiert und diskutiert werden.

FIW-Spotlight: Außenhandelsprognose: Einbruch der Dynamik der Warenexporte im Winterhalbjahr 2022/23 zu erwarten

Das neue FIW-Spotlight von Yvonne Wolfmayr (WIFO) präsentiert die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der aktuellen Außenhandelsprognose für Österreich.

Zum Spotlight: https://blog.fiw.ac.at/fiw_spotlight-aussenhandelsprognose2022_23/

Seminar in International Economics: O-Ring Production Networks (Online event) | 09.11.2022

O-Ring Production Networks

Banu Demir Pakel, University of Oxford

Donnerstag, 10. November 2022, 15:30 Uhr

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jdNnD5KFSxm5vdwiIdq4Rw

This presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Cecilia Fieler, Daniel Xu, and Kelly Yang.

Abstract:

We study a production network where quality choices are interconnected across firms. High-quality firms are skill intensive and trade more with other high-quality firms. Using data from Turkish firms, we document strong assortative matching of skills in the production network. A firm-specific export demand shock from a rich country increases the firm’s skill intensity and shifts the firm toward skill- intensive domestic partners. We develop a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms, endogenous quality choices, and network formation. An economy-wide export demand shock of 5 percent induces exporters and non-exporters to upgrade quality, raising the average wage by 1.2 percent. This effect is about nine times the effect in a special case of the model with no interconnection of quality choices.

Seminar in International Economics: Evaluating the implementation of the DCFTAs between the EU, Georgia and Moldova (Online event) | 24.11.2022

Evaluating the implementation of the DCFTAs
between the EU, Georgia and Moldova

Tinatin Akhvlediani, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Donnerstag, 24. November 2022, 15:00 Uhr

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4mpWvxd6SLiAmzVWe0ZVow

This presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Steven Blockmans, Julie Bryhn, Stanislav Ghiletchi, Lali Gogoberidze, Daniel Gros, Weinian Hu, Diego Iribarren, Tamara Kovziridze, Irina Kustova, Mihai Mogildea, Liliana Palihovici, Iulian Rusu and Farzaneh Shamsfakhr.

Abstract:

Since 2014, the European Union (EU) has in place a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTAs) with Georgia and Moldova as part of the Association Agreement. The European Commission has commissioned a consortium led by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) to undertake an evaluation of the implementation and impact of the DCFTAs. The evaluation will be carried out between February 2021 and April 2022 and will analyse the economic, social and environmental, and human rights (including labour rights) effects which the DCFTAs have had since their application. In terms of the evaluation criteria, as requested by the Terms of Reference (ToR), the study will assess the effectiveness, impact, efficiency, coherence and relevance of the DCFTAs.

Seminar in International Economics: The Balance of Concessions in the Trade Agreements (Online event) | 01.12.2022

The Balance of Concessions in the Trade Agreements

Mostafa Beshkar, Indiana University

Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2022, 15:30 Uhr

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3CM9J2SPT0OFW7UjyEGCcQ

This presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Pao-Li Chang and Shenxi Song.

Abstract:

Reciprocity is a key principle governing the negotiations under the GATT/WTO agreement, which calls for a balance of concessions among the WTO members. In recent years, however, various politicians across the world have voiced concerns about their country's excessive obligations under the WTO and a lack of reciprocation by their trading partners. Our objective in this paper is to evaluate the degree to which the pattern of applied tariffs across WTO members deviates from a balanced-concession condition. To this end, we employ a quantitative trade model and use alternative definitions of reciprocity to measure the concessions received and given by each country from 1995 to 2011. We find that over time, concessions have become more unbalanced mostly due to an increase in trade imbalances.

Reminder: AW-Curriculum: Monetäre Aspekte der Außenwirtschaft(spolitik) (Webinar) | 10.11.2022

Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Wirtschaft, das Kompetenzzentrum Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft und die Verwaltungsakademie des Bundes laden ein zum Seminar

Monetäre Aspekte der Außenwirtschaft(spolitik)

Vortragende: Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in Julia Wörz (OeNB)

Donnerstag, 10. November 2022, von 9:00 bis 11 Uhr

Link zur Anmeldung:

https://my.demio.com/ref/V0mQ0k4kTFKz2Siu

Inhalte:

· Monetäre Aspekte der Außenwirtschaft

- Überblick über Zahlungsbilanz, Leistungsbilanz und Wechselkurse einschließlich eines Überblicks über makroökonomische Grundkonzepte

- Internationale Kapitalflüsse

- Unterteilung der Kapitalströme in Finanzinvestitionen und Direktinvestitionen (FDI)

- Auswirkungen von Wechselkursentwicklungen und -politik auf die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

- Theorie der optimalen Währungsräume

- Effekte der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die Wechselkurse

- Rolle des IWF

- Entwicklung des Euro-Wechselkurses und internationale Rolle des Euro

· Geld und Fiskalpolitik der WWU

- Fiskalunion: Hindernisse und Entwicklungen infolge der Covid-19-Pandemie

- Banken und Kapitalmarktunion

Über Ihre Teilnahme an den Veranstaltungen freuen wir uns!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Alexander Hudetz und Birgit Buschbom

FIW-Projektbüro

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Dear Sir or Madam,

We are glad to inform you about the upcoming events within the FIW project.

In this issue:

· 46th FIW-Lecture„Greening Trade? Environmental Provisions in Trade Agreements" | 17.11.2022

· FIW-Spotlight: Foreign Trade Forecast: Dynamics of goods exports expected to collapse in the winter half-year 2022/23

· Seminar in International Economics: O-Ring Production Networks (Online event) | 09.11.2022

· Seminar in International Economics: Evaluating the implementation of the DCFTAs between the EU, Georgia and Moldova (Online event) | 24.11.2022

· Seminar in International Economics: The Balance of Concessions in the Trade Agreements (Online event) | 01.12.2022

· Reminder: AW-Curriculum: Monetary aspects of foreign trade (policy) (Webinar in German) | 10.11.2022

46th FIW-Lecture„Greening Trade? Environmental Provisions in Trade Agreements" | 17.11.2022

The Federal Ministry of Labor and Economy and the FIW invite you to the

46th FIW-Lecture

„Greening Trade? Environmental Provisions in Trade Agreements“
(in German Language)

Bettina Meinhart (WIFO)

Welcome: Director General, Cynthia Zimmermann (BMAW)

Co-Lecturer: Claudia Stowasser (WKO)

Moderation: Manfred Schekulin (BMAW)

Literature: FIW-Policy Brief Nr. 55

Please register:

https://fiw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/fiw-vorlesungen/anmeldung-zur-46-aw-vorlesung

Thursday, 17th of November 2022, 9:30 a.m. (on time) till 10:30 a.m.

Stubenring 1, 1010 Vienna, 1^st floor, Marmorsaal (Saal I)

FIW Lectures is a series of events in which policy-relevant current research results from the field of international economics are presented and discussed in a practical manner.

FIW-Spotlight: Foreign Trade Forecast: Dynamics of goods exports expected to collapse in the winter half-year 2022/23

The new FIW Spotlight by Yvonne Wolfmayr (WIFO) presents the most important results of the current foreign trade forecast for Austria.

Link to Spotlight: https://blog.fiw.ac.at/fiw_spotlight-aussenhandelsprognose2022_23/

Seminar in International Economics: O-Ring Production Networks (Online event) | 09.11.2022

O-Ring Production Networks

Banu Demir Pakel, University of Oxford

Thursday, 10th of November 2022, 3:30 p.m. (CET)

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jdNnD5KFSxm5vdwiIdq4Rw

This presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Cecilia Fieler, Daniel Xu, and Kelly Yang.

Abstract:

We study a production network where quality choices are interconnected across firms. High-quality firms are skill intensive and trade more with other high-quality firms. Using data from Turkish firms, we document strong assortative matching of skills in the production network. A firm-specific export demand shock from a rich country increases the firm’s skill intensity and shifts the firm toward skill- intensive domestic partners. We develop a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms, endogenous quality choices, and network formation. An economy-wide export demand shock of 5 percent induces exporters and non-exporters to upgrade quality, raising the average wage by 1.2 percent. This effect is about nine times the effect in a special case of the model with no interconnection of quality choices.

Seminar in International Economics: Evaluating the implementation of the DCFTAs between the EU, Georgia and Moldova (Online event) | 24.11.2022

Evaluating the implementation of the DCFTAs
between the EU, Georgia and Moldova

Tinatin Akhvlediani, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Thursday, 24th of November 2022, 3:00 p.m. (CET)

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4mpWvxd6SLiAmzVWe0ZVow

This presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Steven Blockmans, Julie Bryhn, Stanislav Ghiletchi, Lali Gogoberidze, Daniel Gros, Weinian Hu, Diego Iribarren, Tamara Kovziridze, Irina Kustova, Mihai Mogildea, Liliana Palihovici, Iulian Rusu and Farzaneh Shamsfakhr.

Abstract:

Since 2014, the European Union (EU) has in place a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTAs) with Georgia and Moldova as part of the Association Agreement. The European Commission has commissioned a consortium led by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) to undertake an evaluation of the implementation and impact of the DCFTAs. The evaluation will be carried out between February 2021 and April 2022 and will analyse the economic, social and environmental, and human rights (including labour rights) effects which the DCFTAs have had since their application. In terms of the evaluation criteria, as requested by the Terms of Reference (ToR), the study will assess the effectiveness, impact, efficiency, coherence and relevance of the DCFTAs.

Seminar in International Economics: The Balance of Concessions in the Trade Agreements (Online event) | 01.12.2022

The Balance of Concessions in the Trade Agreements

Mostafa Beshkar, Indiana University

Thursday, 1^st of December 2022, 3:30 p.m. (CET)

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3CM9J2SPT0OFW7UjyEGCcQ

This presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Pao-Li Chang and Shenxi Song.

Abstract:

Reciprocity is a key principle governing the negotiations under the GATT/WTO agreement, which calls for a balance of concessions among the WTO members. In recent years, however, various politicians across the world have voiced concerns about their country's excessive obligations under the WTO and a lack of reciprocation by their trading partners. Our objective in this paper is to evaluate the degree to which the pattern of applied tariffs across WTO members deviates from a balanced-concession condition. To this end, we employ a quantitative trade model and use alternative definitions of reciprocity to measure the concessions received and given by each country from 1995 to 2011. We find that over time, concessions have become more unbalanced mostly due to an increase in trade imbalances.

Reminder:: AW-Curriculum: Monetary aspects of foreign trade (policy) (Webinar in German) | 10^th Nov 2022

The Federal Ministry of Labor and Economy, the Competence Center Research Focus International Economics and the Federal Academy of Administration invite to the seminar

Monetary aspects of foreign trade (policy)

Lecturer:  Julia Wörz (OeNB)

Thursday, 10^th November 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Registration
https://my.demio.com/ref/V0mQ0k4kTFKz2Siu

Seminar contents:

· Monetary aspects of foreign trade

- Overview of balance of payments, current account and exchange rates, including an overview of basic macroeconomic concepts

- International capital flows

- Subdivision of capital flows into financial investment and foreign direct investment (FDI)

- Effects of exchange rate developments and policies on competitiveness

- Theory of optimal currency areas

- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on exchange rates

- Role of the IMF

- Euro exchange rate developments and international role of the euro

· EMU monetary and fiscal policy

- Fiscal union: obstacles and developments in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

- Banks and Capital Markets Union

We are looking forward to welcoming you at these events!

Kind regards

Alexander Hudetz and Birgit Buschbom
FIW Project Office

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