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Departmentseminar 2024

Internal (but external) Economic Research Seminar
Hotel Höldrichsmühle in Hinterbrühl bei Wien
May 23rd (at 18:00) to May 25th (until 12:30)

Thursday, May 23

18:00 - 19:30Fireside chat with Nithin Umapathi (Senior Economist, Worldbank)
“Navigating the Demographic and Technological Change: Insights from 15 Years of World Bank Policy Advice on Welfare and Labor”
20:00-ishDinner at Höldrichsmühle


Friday, May 24

08:30 - 9:30Extended breakfast (with the opportunity to exchange views on current economic policy)
09:30 - 10:15Edoardo Cefala
“Determinants of the Belief in (Fake) News”
10:15 - 11:00Francesco Scarazzato
“The Association between Adverse Temperature Shocks and Schooling Outcomes in India”
11:00 - 11:30Coffee, Fruits, & Brainfood
11:30 - 12:15Esther Arenas-Arroyo
“Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance”
12:15 - 13:00Michael Pfarrhofer
“Nowcasting with mixed frequency data using Gaussian processes”
13:00 - 14:00Lunch at Höldrichsmühle
14:00 - 16:00Walk
16:00 - 16:30Coffee, Fruits, & Brainfood
16:30 - 17:15Stefan Halbauer
“Fathers’ Parental Leave and Job Separations in Austria”
17:15 - 18:00Martin Halla
“Son Preference and Mental Health of Fathers”
20:00-ishDinner at Höldrichsmühle


Saturday, May 25

08:30 - 9:30Extended breakfast (with the opportunity to exchange views on current economic policy)
09:30 - 10:15Klaus Ackermann (Monash)
“Counterfactual Predictions in Shared Markets: A Global Forecasting Approach
with Deep Learning and Spillover” Considerations
10:15 - 11:00Simon Heß
“Kinship Networks, Local Elections, and Female Representation: Evidence
from Nepali Voter Registration Data”
11:00 - 11:30Coffee, Fruits, & Brainfood
11:30 - 12:15Tingmingke Lu
“High-Rise Housing and Urban Sustainability”
12:30 - 13:30Optional lunch at Höldrichsmühle

  • The costs (= 2 nights, 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, travel) will be covered for the administrative stuff and for the non-tenured scientific staff. Lunch on the day of departure is optional and at your own expense.

  • Tenured scientific staff must pay from their own funds. The total cost is Euro 378,3 (= 32 + 108 + 199,3 + 39). Details on the cost can be found here!