[FIW_Logo_de_en] English version Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir freuen uns, Sie über die neuesten Entwicklungen des FIW-Projekts informieren zu dürfen. Diesmal mit folgendem Inhalt: * Call for Papers: 15. FIW-Research Conference ‘International Economics’ * Reminder: AW-Curriculum: Gesellschaftliche Aspekte des Internationalen Handels (Webinar) | 29.09.2022 * Last-Minute-Reminder: FIW-Workshop „Firms and Workers in the Global Economy | 22-23.09.2022 * Last-Minute-Reminder: Seminar in International Economics: Heterogeneous Trade Elasticity and Managerial Skills (Online event) | 22.09.2022 * Reminder: Seminar in International Economics: The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy (Hybrid event) | 06.10.2022 Call for Papers: 15. FIW-Research Conference ‘International Economics’ CALL for PAPERS for the 15th FIW-Research Conference ‘International Economics’ Vienna, 23rd-24th February 2023 Submission Deadline: 21st October 2022 OUTLINE The Research Centre International Economics - FIW announces its 15th Research Conference ‘International Economics’ and invites the submission of (full) working papers to be presented at the conference. The main objective of the conference is to provide a platform for economists working in the field of ‘International Economics’ to present recent research. Papers from Ph.D. students, young faculty members and young researchers in similar positions are particularly welcome as the conference aims to support and encourage young economists by providing an opportunity to present their work to fellow junior economists as well as experienced senior researchers. The conference also aims at bringing together researchers and policy makers to provide a forum for discussion on how empirical evidence can more effectively inform actual economic policy making. TIME & LOCATION The 15th FIW Research Conference on ‘International Economics’ will take place on Thursday, 23rd February 2023 and Friday, 24th February 2023 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna. PAPER SUBMISSION We invite the submission of (full) working papers on all topics in the field of International Economics. Please submit your working papers via https://conference2023.fiw.ac.at<https://conference2023.fiw.ac.at/> until 21st October 2022. Selection decisions will be communicated in December 2022. AWARDS Two prizes for the best contributions to the Research Conference will be awarded - the ‘Best Conference Paper Award 23’ and the ‘Young Economist Award 23’. Each award is worth € 1000. The ‘Young Economist Award 23’ is intended for Ph.D. students, young faculty members and young researchers in similar positions. To be considered for this award all authors of the paper have to be 34 or younger at the time of submission. The Call for Papers is available at: https://fiw.ac.at/fileadmin/Documents/Veranstaltungen/2023FIWCONF/15.FIW_FOK... Questions may be addressed to fiw-pb@fiw.ac.at<mailto:fiw-pb@fiw.ac.at> or alexander.hudetz@wifo.ac.at<mailto:alexander.hudetz@wifo.ac.at>. The conference programme will be published on https://blog.fiw.ac.at/fiw-conference2023/ and https://conference2023.fiw.ac.at<https://conference2023.fiw.ac.at/> Attendance of the FIW Research Conference is free of charge. The conference language is English. Reminder: AW-Curriculum: Gesellschaftliche Aspekte des Internationalen Handels (Webinar) | 29.09.2022 Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Wirtschaft, das Kompetenzzentrum Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft und die Verwaltungsakademie des Bundes laden ein zum Seminar Gesellschaftliche Aspekte des Internationalen Handels: Demokratie, Beschäftigung und Verteilung, Protektionismus Vortragende: Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in Köppl-Turyna (Eco Austria) Donnerstag, 29. September 2022, von 9:00 bis 11 Uhr Link zur Anmeldung: https://my.demio.com/ref/V0mQ0k4kTFKz2Siu Inhalte: * Zusammenhang zwischen internationaler Handelsliberalisierung und Demokratie * Politische Ökonomie des Populismus * Die Rolle von Oligarchen auf den Freihandel * Wie wirken sich Handelsliberalisierungen auf die Beschäftigung und Einkommensverteilung aus – im Vergleich zu technologischem Fortschritt, Digitalisierung, Migration? * Analyse der Beschäftigungseffekte von Freihandel * Analyse der Verteilungseffekte von Freihandel * Bestehende Instrumente zur Abfederung von unerwünschten Verteilungseffekten * Freihandel vs. Protektionismus Das Webinar findet im Rahmen des Außenwirtschafts-Curriculum 2021/22 statt, zu dem Sie sich jederzeit anmelden können. Mehr Informationen zum Außenwirtschafts-Curriculum<https://fiw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/aussenwirtschafts-curriculum/aw-curriculum-2021/22>. Technische Voraussetzungen für die Teilnahme: Dieses Webinar sollte in allen aktuellen und gängigen Browsern und auf allen gängigen Plattformen (inklusive Tablets und Smartphones) funktionieren. Bitte vermeiden Sie den Internet Explorer, da dieser veraltet ist und seit einiger Zeit nicht mehr weiterentwickelt wird. Wir empfehlen die aktuellsten Versionen von Firefox, Chrome, Edge oder Safari. Wenn Sie Probleme mit einem dieser Browser haben, versuchen Sie es bitte mit einem anderen. Last-Minute-Reminder: FIW-Workshop „Firms and Workers in the Global Economy | 22-23.09.2022 Die Johannes Kepler Universität Linz und das Kompetenzzentrum "Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft" laden herzlich zum nächsten FIW-Workshop zum Thema „Firms and Workers in the Global Economy“ ein. Der Besuch ist kostenlos. Um Anmeldung wird gebeten. FIW-Workshop Firms and Workers in the Global Economy Time: September 22-23, 2022 Location: Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenbergerstrasse 69 4040 Linz Austria Program Day 1 Thursday September 22 10:45 Opening Remarks Harald Oberhofer (Wifo, WU); Michael Irlacher (JKU) 11:00 Session I – Chair: Michael Irlacher * 11:00-11:45: Inga Heiland (U Kiel / IfW Kiel) Trade from Space: Shipping Networks and the Global Implications of Local Shocks * 11:45-12:30: Lei Li (U Mannheim) Who Pays for the Tariffs? Evidence from the US-China Trade War 12:30 Lunch Break 13:45 Session II – Chair: Harald Oberhofer * 13:45-14:30: Michael Koch (U Aarhus) Multiproduct Mergers and the Product Mix in Domestic and Foreign Markets * 14:30-15:15: Mathieu Parenti (ULB) Profit Shifting Frictions and the Geography of Multinational Production 15:15 Coffee 15:45 Session III – Chair: Harald Oberhofer * 15:45-16:30: Katharina Erhardt (HHU Düsseldorf / DICE) Winners and Losers of the 2015 Swiss Exchange Rate Shock: Unveiling Heterogeneous Worker Responses * 16:30-17:15: Wolfgang Dauth (IAB / U Bamberg) Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany Day 2 Friday September 23 09:00 Session IV – Chair: Karin Mayr-Dorn * 09:00-09:45: Birgit Meyer (Wifo) Innovation, Upgrading and the Depth of Internationalization * 09:45-10:30: Lisandra Flach (ifo) Robotizing to Compete: Evidence from the Eastern European Enlargement 10:30 Coffee 11:00 Session V – Chair: Michael Irlacher * 11:00-11:45: Frank Pisch (TU Darmstadt) Managing Export Complexity: The Role of Service Outsourcing * 11:45-12:30: Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po) Growth and the Fragmentation of Production 12:30 Closure We kindly ask for registration: https://fiw.ac.at/en/events/fiw-workshops/31st-fiw-workshop-firms-and-worker... Last-Minute-Reminder: Seminar in International Economics: Heterogeneous Trade Elasticity and Managerial Skills (Online event) | 22.09.2022 The Competence Centre for International Economics Research (FIW) kindly invites to participate in the Seminar in International Economics on the topic Heterogeneous Trade Elasticity and Managerial Skills Gianluca Orefice University of Paris-Dauphine Thursday, 22nd of September 2022, 3:00 p.m. (CET) Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sA9ItvggQVaY49UWFhrcxg The join link will be sent immediately after registration. This presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Maria Bas, Lionel Fontagné and Irene Iodice. Abstract: This paper investigates the role played by firms’ managerial skills on the heterogeneous reaction of exporters to real exchange rate changes. Our empirical analysis relies on detailed firm-product-destination level export data from France for the period 1995-2008 matched with specific information on firms’ skill composition by occupation (managers, R&D workers, professionals and technicians). Our findings show that high-skill intensive firms have larger exporter price elasticity to real exchange rate variations and a lower elasticity of export quantities. While a 10% depreciation of the real exchange rate makes firms with sample-average skill intensity charging 0.5% higher export price, we show that this effect is 40% higher for exporters with one standard deviation larger skill intensity. Managers and R&D workers contribute the most to this heterogeneous pricing-to-market behavior offirms. These findings are robust to controlling for the competing explanations of firm productivity and quality. Reminder: Seminar in International Economics: The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy (Hybrid event) | 06.10.2022 The Competence Centre for International Economics Research (FIW) kindly invites to participate in the Seminar in International Economics on the topic The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy Italo Colantone Bocconi University Thursday, 6th of October 2022, 2:30 p.m. (CET) Venue: On-site: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna or Online: via Zoom Registration link for on-site participation: https://wiiw.ac.at/the-political-consequences-of-green-policies-evidence-fro... Registration link for online participation: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GIiwYEHaT3-QquFNPQItLw For participating in discussion at the Q&A session better, we highly recommend on-site particiaption. The presentation is based on a paper<https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2022/working-paper/political-consequences-green-policies-evidence-italy> co-authored with Livio Di Lonardo, Yotam Margalit and Marco Percoco. Abstract: For many governments enacting green policies is a priority, but these often entail substantial and uneven costs on citizens. How does the introduction of green policies affect voting? We study this question in the context of a major ban on polluting cars introduced in Milan. The policy was strongly opposed by the right-wing populist party Lega, portraying it as a “radical-chic-leftist” initiative penalizing common people. We show that owners of banned vehicles—who incurred a median loss of €3,750—were significantly more likely to vote for Lega in the subsequent elections. This electoral shift does not stem from increased environmental skepticism, but rather from the perceived unfairness of the policy and its pocketbook implications. In fact, recipients of compensation from the local government were not more likely to switch to Lega. The findings underscore that addressing the distributive consequences is key for advancing green policies that are politically sustainable. The seminar series is organised by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)<https://wiiw.ac.at/> in co-operation with FIW, the Centre of Competence in International Economics. The seminar provides a forum for presentation and discussion of recent academic research in the field of international economics. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Alexander Hudetz und Birgit Buschbom FIW-Projektbüro Es entspricht nicht unserer Philosophie Ihnen unerwünschte E-Mails zukommen zu lassen. Falls Sie keine weiteren E-Mails vom FIW erhalten möchten, schreiben Sie bitte an das Projektbüro<mailto:fiw-pb@fiw.at> mit dem Betreff "Abmelden". __________________________________ Der Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft (FIW) (https://www.fiw.ac.at/) ist eine Kooperation zwischen der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU), der Universität Wien, der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, der Universität Innsbruck, WIFO, wiiw und WSR. FIW wird von den Bundesministerien BMBFW und BMAW unterstützt. Dear Sir or Madam, We are glad to inform you about the latest news on the FIW project. In this issue: * Call for Papers: 15th FIW-Research Conference ‘International Economics’ * Reminder: AW-Curriculum: Gesellschaftliche Aspekte des Internationalen Handels (Webinar) | 29.09.2022 * Last-Minute-Reminder: FIW-Workshop „Firms and Workers in the Global Economy | 22-23.09.2022 * Last-Minute-Reminder: Seminar in International Economics: Heterogeneous Trade Elasticity and Managerial Skills (Online event) | 22.09.2022 * Reminder: Seminar in International Economics: The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy (Hybrid event) | 06.10.2022 Call for Papers: 15. FIW-Research Conference ‘International Economics’ CALL for PAPERS for the 15th FIW-Research Conference ‘International Economics’ Vienna, 23rd-24th February 2023 Submission Deadline: 21st October 2022 OUTLINE The Research Centre International Economics - FIW announces its 15th Research Conference ‘International Economics’ and invites the submission of (full) working papers to be presented at the conference. The main objective of the conference is to provide a platform for economists working in the field of ‘International Economics’ to present recent research. Papers from Ph.D. students, young faculty members and young researchers in similar positions are particularly welcome as the conference aims to support and encourage young economists by providing an opportunity to present their work to fellow junior economists as well as experienced senior researchers. The conference also aims at bringing together researchers and policy makers to provide a forum for discussion on how empirical evidence can more effectively inform actual economic policy making. TIME & LOCATION The 15th FIW Research Conference on ‘International Economics’ will take place on Thursday, 23rd February 2023 and Friday, 24th February 2023 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna. PAPER SUBMISSION We invite the submission of (full) working papers on all topics in the field of International Economics. Please submit your working papers via https://conference2023.fiw.ac.at<https://conference2023.fiw.ac.at/> until 21st October 2022. Selection decisions will be communicated in December 2022. AWARDS Two prizes for the best contributions to the Research Conference will be awarded - the ‘Best Conference Paper Award 23’ and the ‘Young Economist Award 23’. Each award is worth € 1000. The ‘Young Economist Award 23’ is intended for Ph.D. students, young faculty members and young researchers in similar positions. To be considered for this award all authors of the paper have to be 34 or younger at the time of submission. The Call for Papers is available at: https://fiw.ac.at/fileadmin/Documents/Veranstaltungen/2023FIWCONF/15.FIW_FOK... Questions may be addressed to fiw-pb@fiw.ac.at<mailto:fiw-pb@fiw.ac.at> or alexander.hudetz@wifo.ac.at<mailto:alexander.hudetz@wifo.ac.at>. The conference programme will be published on https://blog.fiw.ac.at/fiw-conference2023/ and https://conference2023.fiw.ac.at<https://conference2023.fiw.ac.at/> Attendance of the FIW Research Conference is free of charge. The conference language is English. Reminder: AW-Curriculum: Social aspects of international trade (Webinar in German) | 29.09.2022 The Federal Ministry of Labor and Economy, the Competence Center Research Focus International Economics and the Federal Academy of Administration invite to the seminar Social Aspects of International Trade: Democracy, Employment and Distribution, Protectionism Lecturer: Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in Köppl-Turyna (Eco Austria) Thursday, 29th September 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Registration https://my.demio.com/ref/V0mQ0k4kTFKz2Siu Inhalte: * -Relationship between international trade liberalization and democracy. * -Political economy of populism * -The role of oligarchs on free trade * -How do trade liberalizations affect employment and income distribution - compared to technological progress, digitalization, migration? * Analysis of the employment effects of free trade * Analysis of the distributional effects of free trade * Existing instruments to mitigate undesired distributional effects * Free trade vs. protectionism The webinar is part of the 2021/22 Foreign Trade Curriculum, which you can register for at any time. More information on the foreign trade curriculum.<https://fiw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/aussenwirtschafts-curriculum/aw-curriculum-2021/22> Technical requirements for participation: This webinar should work in all current and popular browsers and on all popular platforms (including tablets and smartphones). Please avoid Internet Explorer as it is outdated and has not been developed for some time. We recommend using the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Edge or Last-Minute-Reminder: FIW-Workshop „Firms and Workers in the Global Economy | 22-23.09.2022 Johannes Kepler University Linz and the Competence Center "Research Focus International Economics" cordially invite you to the next FIW workshop on "Firms and Workers in the Global Economy". Attendance is free of charge. Registration is requested. FIW-Workshop Firms and Workers in the Global Economy Time: September 22-23, 2022 Location: Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenbergerstrasse 69 4040 Linz Austria Program Day 1 Thursday September 22 10:45 Opening Remarks Harald Oberhofer (Wifo, WU); Michael Irlacher (JKU) 11:00 Session I – Chair: Michael Irlacher * 11:00-11:45: Inga Heiland (U Kiel / IfW Kiel) Trade from Space: Shipping Networks and the Global Implications of Local Shocks * 11:45-12:30: Lei Li (U Mannheim) Who Pays for the Tariffs? Evidence from the US-China Trade War 12:30 Lunch Break 13:45 Session II – Chair: Harald Oberhofer * 13:45-14:30: Michael Koch (U Aarhus) Multiproduct Mergers and the Product Mix in Domestic and Foreign Markets * 14:30-15:15: Mathieu Parenti (ULB) Profit Shifting Frictions and the Geography of Multinational Production 15:15 Coffee 15:45 Session III – Chair: Harald Oberhofer * 15:45-16:30: Katharina Erhardt (HHU Düsseldorf / DICE) Winners and Losers of the 2015 Swiss Exchange Rate Shock: Unveiling Heterogeneous Worker Responses * 16:30-17:15: Wolfgang Dauth (IAB / U Bamberg) Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany Day 2 Friday September 23 09:00 Session IV – Chair: Karin Mayr-Dorn * 09:00-09:45: Birgit Meyer (Wifo) Innovation, Upgrading and the Depth of Internationalization * 09:45-10:30: Lisandra Flach (ifo) Robotizing to Compete: Evidence from the Eastern European Enlargement 10:30 Coffee 11:00 Session V – Chair: Michael Irlacher * 11:00-11:45: Frank Pisch (TU Darmstadt) Managing Export Complexity: The Role of Service Outsourcing * 11:45-12:30: Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po) Growth and the Fragmentation of Production 12:30 Closure We kindly ask for registration: https://fiw.ac.at/en/events/fiw-workshops/31st-fiw-workshop-firms-and-worker... Last-Minute-Reminder: Seminar in International Economics: Heterogeneous Trade Elasticity and Managerial Skills (Online event) | 22.09.2022 The Competence Centre for International Economics Research (FIW) kindly invites to participate in the Seminar in International Economics on the topic Heterogeneous Trade Elasticity and Managerial Skills Gianluca Orefice University of Paris-Dauphine Thursday, 22nd of September 2022, 3:00 p.m. (CET) Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sA9ItvggQVaY49UWFhrcxg The join link will be sent immediately after registration. This presentation is based on a paper co-authored with Maria Bas, Lionel Fontagné and Irene Iodice. Abstract: This paper investigates the role played by firms’ managerial skills on the heterogeneous reaction of exporters to real exchange rate changes. Our empirical analysis relies on detailed firm-product-destination level export data from France for the period 1995-2008 matched with specific information on firms’ skill composition by occupation (managers, R&D workers, professionals and technicians). Our findings show that high-skill intensive firms have larger exporter price elasticity to real exchange rate variations and a lower elasticity of export quantities. While a 10% depreciation of the real exchange rate makes firms with sample-average skill intensity charging 0.5% higher export price, we show that this effect is 40% higher for exporters with one standard deviation larger skill intensity. Managers and R&D workers contribute the most to this heterogeneous pricing-to-market behavior offirms. These findings are robust to controlling for the competing explanations of firm productivity and quality. Reminder: Seminar in International Economics: The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy (Hybrid event) | 06.10.2022 The Competence Centre for International Economics Research (FIW) kindly invites to participate in the Seminar in International Economics on the topic The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy Italo Colantone Bocconi University Thursday, 6th of October 2022, 2:30 p.m. (CET) Venue: On-site: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna or Online: via Zoom Registration link for on-site participation: https://wiiw.ac.at/the-political-consequences-of-green-policies-evidence-fro... Registration link for online participation: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GIiwYEHaT3-QquFNPQItLw For participating in discussion at the Q&A session better, we highly recommend on-site particiaption. The presentation is based on a paper<https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2022/working-paper/political-consequences-green-policies-evidence-italy> co-authored with Livio Di Lonardo, Yotam Margalit and Marco Percoco. Abstract: For many governments enacting green policies is a priority, but these often entail substantial and uneven costs on citizens. How does the introduction of green policies affect voting? We study this question in the context of a major ban on polluting cars introduced in Milan. The policy was strongly opposed by the right-wing populist party Lega, portraying it as a “radical-chic-leftist” initiative penalizing common people. We show that owners of banned vehicles—who incurred a median loss of €3,750—were significantly more likely to vote for Lega in the subsequent elections. This electoral shift does not stem from increased environmental skepticism, but rather from the perceived unfairness of the policy and its pocketbook implications. In fact, recipients of compensation from the local government were not more likely to switch to Lega. The findings underscore that addressing the distributive consequences is key for advancing green policies that are politically sustainable. The seminar series is organised by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)<https://wiiw.ac.at/> in co-operation with FIW, the Centre of Competence in International Economics. The seminar provides a forum for presentation and discussion of recent academic research in the field of international economics. Kind regards Alexander Hudetz and Birgit Buschbom FIW Project Office It is not our philosophy to send you unwanted e-mails. 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