Here you can find the preliminary program of the NOEG Conference 2025.

Detailed information on individual sessions is available via ConfTool. 

 

 

TUESDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2025

9:30-10:30

Conference check-in (Restaurant 2Stein/Denkbar, Campus West)

10:30-12:00

Parallel Panel Sessions I

 

Session 1.1: Migration Economics I: Economic Impacts of Migration and Public Perceptions 

 

Session 1.2: (Applied) Macroeconomics I: Uncertainty, Beliefs, and Economics Shocks 

 

Session 1.3: Gender and Family Economics: Work, Care, and Compensation - The Economics of Motherhood

 

Session 1.4: International Economics: Business Cycles, Trade, and Spillovers

12:00-13:00

Lunch Break

13:00-14:30

Parallel Panel Sessions II
  Session 2.1: Migration Economics II: Drivers of Migration and Labor Market Integration
  Session 2.2: (Applied) Macroeconomics II: Prices, Production, and Real-time-data Adjustment
  Session 2.3: Housing Economics: Real Estate and Economic Structures - Policy, Taxation, and Social Dynamics
  Session 2.4: Labor Economics I: Evolving Labor Markets - Gender, Migration, and Structural Transformation

14:30-15:00

Coffee Break

15:00-16:30

Parallel Panel Sessions III
  Session 3.1: Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Redistribution, Welfare Preferences and Behavioral Biases in Economic Decision-Making
  Session 3.2: Public Economics: Corporate Taxation and Market Responses - Investment, Pricing and Policy Design
  Session 3.3: Health Economics I: Health Shocks and Socioeconomic Outcomes
  Session 3.4: Labor Economics II: Transforming Labor and Productivity in the Digital Age - Challenges and Innovations in Austria

16:30-17:00

Coffee Break

17:00-18:30

Official Welcome || Keynote Lecture by Isabel Ruiz:"Forced Migration and its Economic Implications"

19:00-22:00

Conference Reception

 

WEDNESDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2025

8:30-9:00

 Conference check-in (Campus West, 2nd floor))

9:00-10:30

Parallel Panel Sessions IV

 

 Session 4.1: Migration Economics III: Refugee Integration - The Role of Labor Markets, Welfare Policies and Mobility Constraints

 

 Session 4.2: (Applied) Macroeconomics III: Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and Financial Behavior 

 

 Session 4.3: Health Economics II: Public Health Access and Prevention

 

 Session 4.4: Labor Economics III: Labor Market Transitions, Firm Effects, and Resilience to Health Shocks
  Session 4.5: Environmental and Ecological Economics I: Climate Policy and Economic Transitions

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Parallel Panel Sessions V
  Session 5.1: (Applied) Microeconomics: Firm Decisions in Changing Institutional and Technological Contexts
  Session 5.2: Regional and Spatial Economics: Regional Economic Dynamics - Taxation, Trade, and Mobility
  Session 5.3: Economic Theory: Power, Information, and Market Formation in Political Economy
  Session 5.4: Labor Economics IV: Workforce, Transitions, Policies, and Structural Resilience
  Session 5.5: Environmental and Ecological Economics II: Social and Fiscal Dimensions of Adapting to Environmental Stress

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:30

Roundtable Discussion: “Interdisciplinary Migration Research and the Role of Economics” – Discussants: Isabel Ruiz, Martin Ruhs, Andreas Steinmayr, Leila Hadj Abdou, Judith Kohlenberger (invited)

14:30-15:00

Coffee Break

15:00-16:30

Keynote Lecture by Martin Ruhs:"Why do people migrate?" || Young Economist Award Ceremony

16:30-17:30

NOeG General Assembly

 

 

Keynote Lecture by Isabel Ruiz

Forced Migration and its Economic Implications

Tuesday, 24 September 2025, 17:00-18:30 

Abstract: Forced migration is a defining feature of today’s global context, with profound economic and political consequences for host societies, displaced populations, and countries of origin. This keynote will examine three interconnected dimensions: the labour market implications of forced displacement; its fiscal repercussions for host economies; and the role of public attitudes and policy preferences in shaping migration governance. Drawing on evidence from diverse case studies—including large South–South migration flows and high-income destinations—the talk will explore how these dynamics interact, and what they mean for economic policy and social cohesion in an era of unprecedented displacement.

Bio: Isabel Ruiz is Associate Professor of Political Economy and Fellow in Economics at the Blavatnik School of Government and Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. She is Associate Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and co-convenes the Economics of Forced Migration Project (ECONFORCED), a global research initiative generating quantitative evidence on the impacts of displacement for host societies, displaced populations, and communities of origin.

Isabel’s research spans development, labour economics, and political economy, with a particular focus on the economics and political economy of migration—especially forced migration. Recent projects explore policy preferences towards migration in the context of large South–South flows, the relationship between immigration and the welfare state, and the legacies of armed conflict for returnees and stayees. She has advised and collaborated with the World Bank, UNHCR, the Agence Française de Développement, and the German Development Institute, and her work has informed debates at the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration. She has served as Director of the Political Economy programme at Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education and, before joining Oxford, Isabel was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Sam Houston State University in Texas. Originally from Colombia, Isabel holds a BA in Economics from Universidad EAFIT, an MSc and PhD in Economics from Western Michigan University. In 2023, she received Western Michigan University’s Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.

 


 

Keynote Lecture by Martin Ruhs

Why do people migrate? Testing policy actors’ beliefs about the drivers of migration 

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 15:00-16:30 

Abstract: There is a large body of research on the causes and dynamics of international migration, but we know relatively little about how policy actors who design migration policies think about why people migrate. This question is relevant not only for research but also for policymaking, as policy actors’ understandings and assumptions are likely to play an important role in shaping migration governance and policy designs in practice. This keynote will present first results from an ongoing project that aims to address this research gap.

We ask three questions:

  1. How do policy actors at national and supra-national levels perceive the reasons why individuals migrate?
  2. To what extent do policy actors’ perceptions align with individuals’ actual migration decision-making? And
  3. How does the ‘positionality’ of policy actors shape their understandings and potential misalignments ?

Our empirical analyses of these questions focuses on the drivers of migration between Africa and Europe. We rely on data from novel ‘paired’ conjoint survey experiments with 1) European and African migration policy actors (n=300); and 2) citizens in four African countries (n=4,000). The paired experiment allows us to compare directly policy actors’ perceptions and potential migrants’ evaluations of the attractiveness of alternative migration scenarios

Bio: Martin Ruhs is Professor of Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. He was previously Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford. Martin’s research focuses on the economics and politics of international migration, with a strong international comparative dimension. In recent years, he has been particularly interested in how labour and welfare institutions shape host country responses to migration, and in the feasibility constraints (incl. public attitudes and policy preferences) on sustainable and inclusive policy-making on migration. Martin’s books include The Price of Rights. Regulating International Labour Migration (Princeton University Press 2013), Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy Making on Migration and Integration (Oxford University Press 2019, co-edited with Kristof Tamas and Joakim Palme), and Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy (Oxford University Press 2010, co-edited with Bridget Anderson).

Most of Martin’s work addresses key questions and dilemmas in public policy-making. He has provided policy analysis and advice for various national governments and international institutions. Martin is co-editor of the World Migration Report 2018, published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and co-author of a recent (2022) study for the European Parliament, on the rights of irregular migrant workers in Europe. He has written for the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian and Irish Times.

 

 

Session 1.1: Migration Economics I: Economic Impacts of Migration and Public Perceptions

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 10:30-12:00

Session Chair: Maryna Tverdostup (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies)

  • I Want My Country Back! British Euroscepticism after the Eastern European enlargement | Eduardo Cefala (University of Economics and Business Vienna)
     
  • Short- and mid-term macroeconomic and labour market impacts of migration in Austria: an agent-based modelling perspective | Nikita Strelkovskii1, Sebastian Poledna1, Alessandra Conte2, Anne Goujon1,3, Joanne Linnerooth‐Bayer1, Catalano Michele4, Elena Rovenskaya1
    1 Supply Chain Intelligence Institute Austria / IIASA; 2 European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy; 3 Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences; 4 Marche Polytechnic University, Italy
     
  • Persuading the Radical Right: Trust in Balanced vs. Slanted News on Immigrants' Fiscal Impact | Christian Koch, Jean-Rober Tyran (both: University of Vienna)


 

Session 1.2: (Applied) Macroeconomics I: Uncertainty, Beliefs, and Economics Shocks

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 10:30-12:00

Session Chair: Jörn Kleinert (University of Graz) 

  • Dancing in the Dark: Belief Shocks and Economic Activity |

    Maximilian Boeck1, Zeno Enders2,5, Michael Kleemann3, Gernot Müller4,5,6

    1 FAU Nürnberg, Germany; 2 University of Heidelberg; 3 Deutsche Bundesbank; 4 University of Tübingen; 5 CESifo; 6 The Centre for Economic Policy Research / CEPR

  • Economic Policy Uncertainty and Income Inequality across Europe |

    Stilianos Fountas1, Don Bredin2, Paraskevi Tzika3

    1 University of Macedonia, Greece; 2 University College Dublin; 3 Swansea University

  • Uncertainty Shocks and Inflation Dynamics: Evidence form the Euro Area | Max Breitenlechner, Daniel Gründler, Johann Scharler (all: University of Innsbruck)
  • Understanding Expectations Formation for Hand-to-Mouth Households: Lessons from the Financial Crisis |

    Tufan Ekici2, Martin Geiger1, Marios Zachariadis3

    1 Liechtenstein Institute, Liechtenstein; 2 Anisfield School of Business, Ramapo College of New Jersey; 3 University of Cyprus


 

Session 1.3: Gender and Family Economics: Work, Care, and Compensation - The Economics of Motherhood

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 10:30-12:30

Session Chair: Katrin Zocher (Johannes Kepler University)

  • Parental leave duration and mothers´ skills along the life course | Adèle Lemoine, Sonja Spitzer (both: University of Vienna)
     
  • The Right to Parental Part-Time Work and the Effects on Employment and Mental Health of Mothers | Johanna Reuter (Johannes Kepler University)
     
  • The Motherhood Wage Gap in the EU – A Meta-Analysis |
    Jarko Fidrmuc1,2, Anna Klaffschenkel1, Vivien Czeczeli1,3
    1 Zeppelin University, Germany; 2 Mendel University Brno; 3 University of Public Service, Budapest
     
  • Workplace Breastfeeding and Maternal Employment |
    Pia Heckl1, Elisabeth Wurm2
    1 ifo Institute, LMU Munich; 2 Central European University 


 

Session 1.4: International Economics: Business Cycles, Trade, and Spillovers

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 10:30-12:30

Session Chair: Martin Feldkircher (Vienna School of International Studies)

  • Assessing Business Cycle Synchronicity by Exploiting the Resurrection of the Phillips Curve | Nico Petz, Thomas O. Zoerner (both: Österreichische Nationalbank)
     
  • Discourses about irregularised migrants in Germany: representation and narratives in media, politics, and civil society | Markus Rheindorf Markus, Bastian Vollmer (both: Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz)
     
  • Reconfiguring Supply Chains: The Role of Innovation and Information Exchange in Crisis Response |

    Klaus S. Friesenbichler1,2, Agnes Kügler1,2, Birgit Meyer1, Michael Peneder1, Yvonne Wolfmayr1

    1 Austrian Institute of Economic Research / WIFO; 2 Supply Chain Intelligence Institute Austria / ASCII

  • The international spillovers of corporate bonds purchases |

    Philipp Poyntner1, Marco Garofalo2

    1 University of Salzburg; 2 Bank of England, University of Oxford

  • Nowcasting bilateral trade flows: Integrating novel transportation data for Austria, Germany, and the U.S | Sebastian P. Koch, Yannic Prohaska (both: Institute for Advanced Studies/ IHS)


 

Session 2.1: Migration Economics II: Drivers of Migration and Labor Market Integration

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 13:00-14:30

Session Chair: Mathias Czaika (University for Continuing Education Krems)

  • Low-cost Language Learning: a Boost to Move? | Joop Adema (University of Innsbruck)
     
  • The Spanish agricultural sector migration scheme and the risks for serious violation of human rights | Giovanna Leuzzi (University of Barcelona)
     
  • Do co-ethnic commuters disseminate labor market information? Evidence from geocoded register data | 

    Dieter Pennerstorfer1, Johan Klaesson2, Özge Öner3

    1 Johannes Kepler University Linz; 2 Jönköping International Business School; 3 University of Cambridge

  • Implications of welfare generosity and welfare access for migration strategies |

    Martin Guzi1, Lucia Mýtna Kureková2

    1 Masaryk University, Czech Republic; 2 Institute for Forecasting / CSPS, Slovak Academy of Sciences

  • To Move or Stay? Migration Intentions Amid Conflict and Climate Change | 

    Kerim Can Kavakli1, Christoph Deuster2, Roman Hoffmann3, Simone Ghislandi4, Will Kemp5, Raya Muttarak3,5

    1 Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan; 2 Joint Research Centre / JRC, European Commission, Ispra, Italy; 3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis / IIASA, Austria; 4 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office / FCDO), London; 5 Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna

 

 

Session 2.2: (Applied) Macroeconomics II: Prices, Production, and Real-time-data Adjustment

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 13:00-14:30

Session Chair: Martin Geiger (Liechtenstein Institute)

  • Firms' heterogeneous (and unintended) investment response to carbon pricing |

    Anna Matzner1,4, Lea Steininger2,3

    1 Vienna University of Economics and Business; 2 Harvard University; 3 Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies; 4 European Central Bank
     

  • Generalized Rotemberg Price-Setting | Michael Reiter, Adrian Wende (both: Institute for Advanced Studies / IHS)

  • Accounting for Cross-Country Output Differences: A Sectoral CES Perspective | Jan Trenczek (Prognos AG, Germany), Konstantin M. Wacker (University of Groningen)

  • Seasonal adjustment of high-frequency data: Addressing holiday distortions for improved nowcasting - the Santa Claus adjustment | Sebastian P. Koch, Yannic Prohaska (both: Institute for Advanced Studies / IHS)

 

 

Session 2.3: Housing Economics: Real Estate and Economic Structures - Policy, Taxation, and Social Dynamics

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 13:00-14:30

Session Chair: Markus Knell (Österreichische Nationalbank)

  • Monetary Policy, Property Prices and Rents: Evidence from Local Housing Markets | Martin Groiss (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Nicolas Syrichas (Freie Universität Berlin)
     
  • Staying Put: Housing Decisions of Asset-Rich, Cash-Poor Elderly Households | Fabian Pettenthaler (University of Vienna)
     
  • Real estate markets and illicit financial inflows | 

    Jarko Fidrmuc1,2,3, Zuzana Kostalova1, Maria Siranova1

    1 Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences; 2 Zeppelin University, Germany; 3 Mendel University in Brno

 

 

Session 2.4: Labor Economics I: Evolving Labor Markets - Gender, Migration, and Structural Transformation

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 13:00-14:30

Session Chair: Bernhard Mahlberg (Institute for Industrial Research)

  • Implicit Contracts and Asymmetric Pass-Through of Productivity Shocks |

    Stuart A. Breslin1, Daniel Schaefer2, Andy Snell1, Heiko Stueber3, Jonathan P. Thomas1

    1 University of Edinburgh; Johannes Kepler Universtiy Linz; 3 University of Applied Labour Studies Schwerin
     

  • Do female members on corporate boards make a difference? An evaluation of the introduction of the gender board quota in Austria | Andrea Weber, Elisabeth Wurm (both: Central European University, Austria)

  • International Trade and the Gender Pay Gap: the case of Austria |

    Birgit Meyer1, Harald Oberhofer1, Christine Zulehner2

    1 Austrian Institute of Economic Research / WIFO; 2 University of Vienna
     

  • The Labour Market Entry and Integration of Refugees and Other Migrants in Austria | Stefan Jestl (City of Vienna), Maryna Tverdostup (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies / wiiw)

 

 

Session 3.1: Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Redistribution, Welfare Preferences and Behavioral Biases in Economic Decision-Making

Tuesday, 23 Sptember 2025, 15:00-16:30 

Session Chair: Christian Koch (University of Vienna)

  • Opportunistic redistributive preferences among natives and immigrants in the UK | Linda Dezső (University of Continuing Education Krems), Christian Koch (University of Vienna)

  • Sustainable Investment under Prospect Theory |

    Ines Fortin1, Jaroslava Hlouskova1,2, Leopold Sögner1,3

    1 Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria; 2 University of Economics, Bratislava; 3 Venna Graduate School of Finance
     

  • Working Paper: Loss aversion in redistribution | Michael Keinprecht (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

  • What makes up welfare chauvinism in the United Kingdom? An online survey study |

    Valeriia Chukaeva (University of Graz), Linda Dezső (University of Continuing Education Krems)

 

 

Session 3.2: Public Economics: Corporate Taxation and Market Responses - Investment, Pricing and Policy Design

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 15:00-16:30 

Session Chair: 

  • Tax competition and production subsidies: how to deal with cost shocks and the Inflation Reduction Act | Volker Meier, Clemens Fuest (Institute for Economic Research / Ifo, Germany)

  • Firms’ Capital Intensity and Wage Responses to Tax Cuts: Theory and Evidence from the TCJA | 

    Peter Oehlinger1, Michael Irlacher1,2, Florian Unger2,3

    1 Johannes Kepler University Linz; 2 CESifo, Germany; 3 University of Göttingen

  • The Effect of Consumer Information on Tax-Pass Through | Lukas Brunninger, Lydia Dimitrakopoulou, Klaus Gugler (all: Vienna University of Economics and Business)

  • Pricing in the Taxman: Corporate Tax Incidence and Commercial Real Estate | David Gstrein (The Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich)

 

 

Session 3.3: Health Economics I: Health Shocks and Socioeconomic Outcomes

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 15:00-16:30 

Session Chair: Gudrun Biffl (University for Continuing Education Krems)

  • Sick Happens: The Effect of Worker Health Shocks on Coworkers’ Employment and Health Behavior | Wolfgang Frimmel (Johannes Kepler University Linz); Rene Wiesinger (Parliamentary Budget Office)

  • Delaying cancer: The effect of education on the age at cancer diagnosis | Sonja Spitzer (University of Vienna), Yuliya Kulikova (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

  • The labor and health economics of breast cancer | Alexander Ahammer, Gerald J. Pruckner, Flora Stiftinger (all: Jonhannes Keppler University Linz)

  • Investigating Stroke Risk Profiles in Austria and their Sensitivity to Climate Change |

    Dominika Kocánová1, Gerald J. Pruckner1, Katrin Zocher1, Raimund Helbok2, Milan Vosko3, Jeanette Tas2, Patrizia Spiandorello2, Anna Heidbreder2

    1 Johannes Kepler University Linz; 2 Kepler University Hospital; 3 Hospital Amstetten

 

 

Session 3.4: Labor Economics II: Transforming Labor and Productivity in the Digital Age - Challenges and Innovations in Austria

Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 15:00-16:30

Session Chair: Bernhard Mahlberg (Institute for Industrial Research)

  • Short and Medium-Term Effects of Intangible Capital on Firm Growth. Firm level evidence from Austrian microdata | Agnes Kügler, Klaus Friesenbichler (both: Austrian Institute of Economic Research / WIFO)

  • Navigating an ageing workforce and productivity in an era of digitalization and automation: An Analysis of Austrian Employer-Employee Linked Data |

    Isabel Gerstner1, Bernhard Mahlberg2, Isilda Mara2, Alexia Prskawetz1

    1 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna University of Technology; 2 Institute for Industrial Research, Austria

  • Migration vs. Automation as an Answer to Labour Shortages: Firm-Level Analysis for Austria | Mahdi Ghodsi, Sandra M. Leitner, Maryna Tverdostup (all: Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies / wiiw)

  • Structural Change within Firms and Consequences for Employees | Michael Weichselbaumer (Office of the Austrian Productivity Board)

 

 

Session 4.1: Migration Economics III: Refugee Integration - The Role of Labor Markets, Welfare Policies and Mobility Constraints

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 9:00-10:30 

Session Chair: Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Johannes Keppler University Linz)

  • Uneven Rules: The Struggle for Refugee Family Reunification |

    Katia Gallegos Torres1, Andreas Steinmayr2, Valentin Wett2

    1 Institute for Employment Research / IAB, Germany; 2 University of Innsbruck

  • Opportunities or Benefits: Local Conditions and Refugee Labor Market Integration | 

    Andreas Steinmayr1, Valentin Wett1, Katia Gallegos Torres2

    1 University of Innsbruck; 2 IInstitute for Employment Research / IAB, ZEW Mannheim

  • Pathways to Integration: The Effect of Apprenticeships in Understaffed Professions on Refugee Employment | Valentin Wett (University of Innsbruck)

  • The Effect of Mobility Restrictions on Refugees’ Labor Market Outcomes | Kamal Kassam (Institute for Employment Research / IAB), Sekou Keita, Philipp Jaschke, Sam Gyetvay

 

 

Session 4.2: (Applied) Macroeconomics III: Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and Financial Behavior

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 9:00-10:30

Session Chair: Reinhard Neck (University of Klagenfurt)

  • What do central bankers talk about? Evidence from the BIS archive |

    Martin Feldkircher1, Petr Korab2, Viktoriya Teliha1

    1 Vienna School of International Studies; 2 Zeppelin University
     

  • The financial sector in a macroeconomic mode | Jörn Kleinert (University of Graz)

  • Excess Reserves, Monetary Transmission and Central Bank Losses | Philipp Ulbing (University of Vienna)

  • Naïve Consumers and Financial Mistakes | Florian Exler (National Bank of Slovakia), Alexander Hansak (CERGE-EI, Czech Republic)

 

 

Session 4.3: Health Economics II: Public Health Access and Prevention

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 9:00-10:30 

Session Chair: Sonja Spitzer (University of Vienna)

  • Health or Debt? Public Healthcare Accessibility and Medical Loan Uptake |

    Petru Crudu1,2, Francesco Stradi3

    1 University of Innsbruck; 2 Ca' Foscari University of Venice; 3 KU Leuven

  • Birth order, maternal immunisations, and infant infections | Thomas Schober (Auckland University of Technology)

  • Family impacts of school health examinations | Dominika Kocanova, Katrin Zocher, Johanna Reuter (all: Johannes Kepler University Linz)

  • On the effectiveness of mandated prevention | Peter Zweifel (University of Zurich)

 

 

Session 4.4: Labor Economics III: Labor Market Transitions, Firm Effects, and Resilience to Health Shocks

Wednesday, 24 March 2025, 9:00-10:30 

Session Chair: Lennart Ziegler (University of Vienna)

  • Firms and Worker Healthcare Utilization |

    Alexander Ahammer1, Analisa Packham2, Jonathan Smith3

    1 Johannes Kepler University Linz; 2 Vanderbilt University; 3 Georgia State University

  • The Labour Market Consequences of Cancer: A Matter of Timing? | 

    Jana Ströbinger1, Sonja Spitzer1, Yuliya Kulikova2,3

    1 University of Vienna; 2 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; 3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis / IASA, Austria

  • The Geography of Assortative Matching | Giacomo Carlini (National Bank of Slovakia)

 

 

Session 4.5: Environmental and Ecological Economics I: Climate Policy and Economic Transitions

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 9:00-10:30 

Session Chair: Karl W. Steininger (University of Graz)

  • Zero fare, cleaner air? The causal effect of Luxembourg's free public transportation policy on carbon emissions | Tobias Eibinger (University of Graz), Sachintha Fernando (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

  • How (In)Elastic is the Short-Run Demand for Electricity? | Francesco Scarazzato (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

  • FDI and the Paris Agreement | Richard Pirker (University of Innsbruck)

  • Distributional Consequences of Becoming Climate-Neutral |

    Philipp Hochmuth1, Per Krusell2, Kurt Mitman2,3

    1 Oesterreichische Nationalbank; 2 Stockholm University, IIES; 3 CEMFI, Spain

 

 

Session 5.1: (Applied) Microeconomics: Firm Decisions in Changing Institutional and Technological Contexts

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 11:00-12:30 

Session Chair: Agnes Kügler (Austrian Institute of Economic Research / WIFO)

  • Wage Setting in Multiproduct Firms | Michael Irlacher, Jackie M.L. Chan, Michael Koch, Luca Macedoni (Johannes Keppler University Linz)

  • The effect of tax rates on corporate philanthropy | Wilko Oltmanns (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology / FIT, Germany)

  • How AI adoption shapes economic development through export performance |

    Philipp Koch1,2, Virág Bittó1, Wolfgang Schwarzbauer1

    1 EcoAustria - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung; 2 Center for Collective Learning / CIAS, Hungary and IAST, France

 

 

Session 5.2: Regional and Spatial Economics: Regional Economic Dynamics - Taxation, Trade, and Mobility

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 11:00-12:30 

Session Chair: Dieter Pennerstorfer (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

  • Contract duration, indexation and tenure discounts. On the mechanics of the Austrian rental market | Markus Knell (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)

  • Taxed Out? How Early 20th Century Regional Tax Adoptions Shaped Interstate Firm Relocation | Stefan Smutny (University of Vienna)

  • From Shock to Recovery: The Effects of Export and Sectoral Diversity on Economic Resilience of EU Regions |

    Wolfgang Schwarzbauer1, Michael Gillesberger1, Simon Perschke1,2

    1 EcoAustria - Institute for Economic Research; 2 University of Vienna
     

  • Mesoscopic description of deviations from gravity models in Austrian migration flows | 

    Thomas Robiglio1,2, Martina Contisciani1,2, Marton Karsai2,3, Tiago P. Peixoto1

    1 Inverse Complexity Lab, IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria; 2 Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University; 3 National Laboratory for Health Security, Hungary

 

 

Session 5.3: Economic Theory: Power, Information, and Market Formation in Political Economy

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 11:00-12:30

Session Chair: Philipp Poyntner (University of Salzburg)

  • Democracy between anarchy and dictatorship: A fragile balance |

    Reinhard Neck1, Dieter Grass2, Stefan Wrzaczek3, Gustav Feichtinger2

    1 University of Klagenfurt; 2 Vienna University of Technology; 3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis / IIASA, Austria
     

  • Benchmark Fixing as a Multi-sender Cheap Talk | Elshan Garashli (University of Graz)

  • From Bilateral Exchange to Market Organization | Katja Kalkschmied (Vienna School of International Studies), Jörn Kleinert (University of Graz)

  • Embracing the Enemy | Alvaro Delgado-Vega (Harris School, University of Chicago), Johannes Schneider (uc3m, Spain)

 

 

Session 5.4: Labor Economics IV: Workforce, Transitions, Policies, and Structural Resilience

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 11:00-12:30

Session Chair:

  • Reintegrating Older Long-Term Unemployed Workers: The Impact of Temporary Job Guarantees | Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Johannes Keppler University Linz)

  • AI in Demand: How Expertise Shapes the (Early) Impact on Workers | Eduard Storm (Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria)

  • Resilience to Macroeconomic Shocks and Labor Market Reforms | Timo Sauerbier, Christian Merkl (both: Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

  • Too old for this job? Evidence from age limits in job postings | Lennart Ziegler (University of Vienna)


 

Session 5.5: Environmental and Ecological Economics II: Social and Fiscal Dimensions of Adapting to Environmental Stress

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 11:00-12:30 

Session Chair: Roman Hoffmann (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis / IIASA, Austria)

  • The Socio-Economic Impact of the Energy Crisis: Evidence from Germany | Jakob Lehr (University of Mannheim), Katia Gallegos Torres (Institute for Employment Research / IAB, Germany)

  • Public Pool Usage as Adaptation Against Urban Heat in New York City | Stefan Borsky, Eric Fesselmeyer (University of Graz)

  • Budgets in high water? Fiscal implications of flood adaptation in the United Kingdom | 

    Alexandra Lehner1, Nina Knittel1, Eva Preinfalk1, Birgit Bednar-Friedl1, Paul Watkiss2

    1 University of Graz; 2 Paul Watkiss Associates, United Kingdom

  • When Supply Chains Run Dry: Spillovers Intensify the Economic Impact of Water Scarcity | Alexander Marbler (University of Graz)