Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association 2020

18.02.2020

Numerous Contributions from WIFO Experts

The annual conference of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) will take place on 24 and 25 February 2020 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. As usual, the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) will also be strongly represented this year.

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)

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