Using OeNB Euro Survey data from fall 2020, we will briefly address the questions: Who has been affected by the covid-19 pandemic and how severely? We will look at the results along three dimensions: (1) across main socio-economic characteristics, (2) across regions and countries, (3) across...

Like last year, each candidate can create a profile (with personal and professional information such as CV, job market paper, website, video presentation) that can be searched publicly by recruiters in Europe and abroad. In addition, this year a number of new features have been added, which will...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

Lightning talks: - Elisa Rodenburg, Research Data Steward, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Data Horror Virtual Escape Room"; - Samuel Simango, Manager Research Data Services at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, "The Gamification of Research Data Managements"; - Markus Herklotz,...

In light of the recent tit-for-tat trade dispute between China and the US, interest in quantifying the effects of the so-called phase one agreement has risen. To this end, the paper quantifies the impact of the asymmetric managed trade agreement using such a multi-country open-economy dynamic...

Governments around the world have gone on a massive fiscal expansion in response to the Covid crisis, increasing government debt to levels not seen in 75 years. How will this debt be repaid? What role do conventional and unconventional monetary policy play? We investigate debt sustainability in...

It is being investigated the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature has produced contradictory findings due to the use of an aggregate measure...

Ziel des diesjährigen Internationalen Steuerseminar ist es, die Teilnehmenden über die aktuellen Entwicklungen im internationalen Steuerrecht der Schweiz zu informieren und die für die Steuerplanung und Steuerpraxis bedeutsamen Elemente zu diskutieren.

Das 30. Kolloquium "Von der Umweltstatistik zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung" findet am 18. und 19. November 2021 als hybride Veranstaltung statt. Programm: - Vorstellung des "Digitalen Ökosystematlas"; - Vorstellung des "Digitalen Ökosystematlas"; - Ökosystemgesamtrechnungen – Flächenbilanz...

This paper studies the causal effect of technology transfer on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the “156 Projects” in China for the construction of technologically advanced, large-scale, capital-intensive industrial facilities. We exploit...