Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association 2020

Further information and the complete programme can be found here.

Here is a chronological selection of presentations with WIFO affiliation:

• Quantifying the Evidence on Environmental Migration: A Meta-Analysis (Roman Hoffmann, Anna Dimitrova, Raya Muttarak, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Jonas Peisker)

• Risk Aversion and the Willingness to Migrate in 30 Transition Countries (Peter Huber, Klaus Nowotny)

• The economic content of direct and indirect business uncertainty measures (Christian Glocker, Werner Hölzl)

• What accounts for the German Labor Market Miracle. A Comprehensive Approach (Stefan Schiman, Mathias Klein)

• (Un)intended consequences of consolidation and formula apportionment? (Simon Loretz)

• Unearned income and labor supply: Evidence from survivors' pensions (René Böheim, Michael Topf)

• The (anti-)competitive effect of IPRs (Michael Peneder, Mark Thompson, Martin Wörter)

• New industrial policy: theory and evidence (Karl Aiginger)

• The Causal Economic Effects of Olympic Games on Host Regions (Matthias Firgo)

• Expanding biomaterial production – potential rebound and side effects (Gerhard Streicher, Mathias Kirchner, David Leclère, Fabian Schipfer, Erwin Schmid, Andre Deppermann, Johannes Schmidt)

• The Welfare MagnetHypothesis revisited – A natural experiment in Austria (Fanny Dellinger)

• Private enforcement of procurement rules: The heterogeneous effect of the EU remedies directive (Michael Klien, Eshien Chong, Stéphane Saussie)

• Trade costs in Services: Firm Survival, Firm Growth and Implied Changes in Employment (Elisabeth Christen, Michael Pfaffermayr, Yvonne Wolfmayr)

• Financial literacy and attitudes towards public debt (Felix Bransch, Claudia Buch, Walter Hyll, Abdolkarim Sadrieh)

• The impact of the ""Programme of Rural Development" on vertical and horizontal diversification in Austrian agriculture (Matthias Firgo, Franz Sinabell)