[FIW_Logo_de_en] Please scroll down for the English version Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir freuen uns, Sie per Newsletter über die neuesten Entwicklungen des FIW-Projekts informieren zu dürfen. Dieses Mal mit folgendem Inhalt: · Reminder: 21. FIW Workshop "From Tariffs to Standards. Assessing the role of Non-Tariff Measures" · Reminder: FIW-Seminar in International Economics Einladung zum 21. FIW-Workshop am 21.10.2016 FIW-Workshop

From Tariffs to Standards Assessing the role of Non-Tariff Measures Time: 21st of October, 2016 8:30 - 13:30 Location: The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) Seminar Room (Souterrain) Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna

Programme 8:30 Entrance, coffee 9:00 Opening Remarks: Mathias Brunner (Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy) Robert Stehrer (wiiw) 9:20 Julia Grübler (wiiw) The diversity of Non-Tariff Measures 9:40 Maurizio Zanardi (Lancaster University Management School - LUMS) Preferential Trade Agreements and Contingent Protection 10:25 Lionel Fontagné (Paris School of Economics) Let's Try Next Door: Technical Barriers to Trade and Multi-destination Firms 11:10 Coffee break 11:30 Olga Solleder (ITC, Geneva) Competitiveness Outlook: Meeting the standard for trade 12:15 Mahdi Ghodsi (wiiw) Quality impacts of Non-Tariff Measures 13:00 Round-up: Non-Tariff Measures and recent trade deals (Chair: Fritz Breuss) 13:30 End of Workshop Registration is necessary - please register here: http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=884 Reminder: FIW-Seminar in International Economics MONDAY, 24 October 2016, 4 pm wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment Martin Kahanec (with Mariola Pytlikova and Klaus Zimmermann) CEU Budapest, IZA Bonn, CELSI Bratislava Abstract The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labour market with more than half a billion people. Although many old member states applied transitional arrangements temporarily restricting the free movement of new member states' citizens, the need for adjustment became ever more important during the Great Recession, which affected EU member states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labour markets affected by asymmetric economic shocks. Using a new migration dataset and treating the EU enlargement and labour market openings towards the new EU members as a natural experiment allows us to estimate the effects of the EU accession and economic opportunities on migration. Applying the difference-in-differences and triple differences empirical modelling framework, we subsequently find that east-west migration flows in the EU responded positively to the EU entry and economic opportunities in receiving labour markets. However, this potential through which migration helped to ease the imbalances across EU labour markets was hampered by transitional arrangements, which negatively affected the flows of east-west migrants. We conclude that the free movement of workers is an asset that the EU needs to nurture as a means of adjusting to structural economic asymmetries as well as to short-run shocks across EU member states. Keywords: EU eastern enlargement, free movement of workers, transitional arrangements, determinants of migration, Great Recession, natural experiment, difference-in-differences, migration policy JEL Codes: F22, J61, J68. 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 centre 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 the wiiw<http://wiiw.ac.at/fiw-wiiw-seminars-in-international-economics-es-6.html> or FIW website<http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=748> for the current version of the programme. Papers and presentation slides, as far as available, are posted on our webpage<http://wiiw.ac.at/events.html> after the respective seminars. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Alexander Hudetz 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". __________________________________ Das Kompetenzzentrum FIW (http://www.fiw.ac.at/) ist ein Projekt von WIFO, wiiw und WSR im Auftrag des BMWFW. Die Kooperationsvereinbarungen des FIW mit der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, der Universität Wien und der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz werden aus Hochschulraumstrukturmitteln gefördert.) Dear Ladies and Gentlemen! We are glad to inform you about the latest news on the FIW project. In this issue: · Reminder: Invitation 21st FIW-Workshop · Reminder: FIW-Seminar in International Economics Invitation 21st FIW-Workshop FIW-Workshop

From Tariffs to Standards Assessing the role of Non-Tariff Measures Time: 21st of October, 2016 8:30 - 13:30 Location: The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) Seminar Room (Souterrain) Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna

Programme 8:30 Entrance, coffee 9:00 Opening Remarks: Mathias Brunner (Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy) Robert Stehrer (wiiw) 9:20 Julia Grübler (wiiw) The diversity of Non-Tariff Measures 9:40 Maurizio Zanardi (Lancaster University Management School - LUMS) Preferential Trade Agreements and Contingent Protection 10:25 Lionel Fontagné (Paris School of Economics) Let's Try Next Door: Technical Barriers to Trade and Multi-destination Firms 11:10 Coffee break 11:30 Olga Solleder (ITC, Geneva) Competitiveness Outlook: Meeting the standard for trade 12:15 Mahdi Ghodsi (wiiw) Quality impacts of Non-Tariff Measures 13:00 Round-up: Non-Tariff Measures and recent trade deals (Chair: Fritz Breuss) 13:30 End of Workshop Registration is necessary - please register here: http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=884 FIW Note No. 22 (September 2016) published FIW publishes quarterly FIW Notes. They present an overview of the most important Austrian and international developments regarding International Economics. The 15th issue is now available for free on the FIW-Website: http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=637&L=3#c13559 Invitation: FIW-Seminar in International Economics MONDAY, 24 October 2016, 4 pm wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment Martin Kahanec (with Mariola Pytlikova and Klaus Zimmermann) CEU Budapest, IZA Bonn, CELSI Bratislava Abstract The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labour market with more than half a billion people. Although many old member states applied transitional arrangements temporarily restricting the free movement of new member states' citizens, the need for adjustment became ever more important during the Great Recession, which affected EU member states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labour markets affected by asymmetric economic shocks. Using a new migration dataset and treating the EU enlargement and labour market openings towards the new EU members as a natural experiment allows us to estimate the effects of the EU accession and economic opportunities on migration. Applying the difference-in-differences and triple differences empirical modelling framework, we subsequently find that east-west migration flows in the EU responded positively to the EU entry and economic opportunities in receiving labour markets. However, this potential through which migration helped to ease the imbalances across EU labour markets was hampered by transitional arrangements, which negatively affected the flows of east-west migrants. We conclude that the free movement of workers is an asset that the EU needs to nurture as a means of adjusting to structural economic asymmetries as well as to short-run shocks across EU member states. Keywords: EU eastern enlargement, free movement of workers, transitional arrangements, determinants of migration, Great Recession, natural experiment, difference-in-differences, migration policy JEL Codes: F22, J61, J68. 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 centre 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 the wiiw<http://wiiw.ac.at/fiw-wiiw-seminars-in-international-economics-es-6.html> or FIW website<http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=748> for the current version of the programme. Papers and presentation slides, as far as available, are posted on our webpage<http://wiiw.ac.at/events.html> after the respective seminars. Kind regards Alexander Hudetz FIW Project Office _____________________________________________________ The 'center of excellence' FIW (http://www.fiw.ac.at/) is a project of WIFO, wiiw and WSR on behalf of the BMWFW. The FIW cooperation with the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), the University Vienna and the Johannes Kepler University Linz is supported by the former Federal Ministry of Science and Research (now integrated in the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy).