Previous Departement Seminars.

Program of the Staff Seminar 2023
Place: Hotel Wesenufer/Waldkirchen am Wesen, opens an external URL in a new window
Wednesday, 29.3.2023
19:00	Dinner
20:00	Kamingespräch - Harald Oberhofer (WU, Wifo) "Is Globalization in a Dead End?"
Thursday, 30.3.2023
09:00 - 10:00	Analisa Packham (Vanderbilt) "Disability Insurance Screening and Worker Outcomes"
10:00-10:15	Coffee
10:15-11:15	Johanna Reuter (JKU) "Son Preference and Mental Health of Fathers“
11:15-12:15	Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (JKU) "Banking on Snow: Bank Capital, Risk, and Employment"
12:30	Lunch
13:30-15:30	Hike and Conversations
16:00-17:00	Martin Halla (JKU) "Werther at Work: Intra-Firm Spillovers of Suicides"
17:00-17:15	Coffee
17:15-18:15	Dijana Zejcirovic (U Vienna) "Policy-Making, Trust and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Mass Sterilizations Campaign"
18:30	Dinner
Friday, 31.3.2023
09:00-10:00	Daniel Schaefer (JKU) "When are Wages Cut? The Roles of Incomplete Contracts and Employee Involvement"
10:00-10:15	Coffee
10:15-11:15	Anja Prummer (JKU) "Unionisation"
11:15-12:15	Ulrich Glogowsky (JKU) "More Bad News for Mothers: The Child Penalty in Mental Health"
12:30	Lunch

Program of the Staff Seminar 2022
Place: Hotel Wesenufer/Waldkirchen am Wesen, opens an external URL in a new window (Anreise, opens an external URL in a new window (PDF))
Wednesday, 23.3.2022
19:00	Dinner
20:00	Kamingespräch - Martin Halla (JKU) "Kommunikation mit Medien — Warum & wie?"
Thursday, 24.3.2022
09:00 - 10:00	Bernhard Schmidpeter (JKU) "Exposure to Labor Market News and Expectations about Job Search & Earnings"
10:00-10:15	Coffee
10:15-11:15	Johannes Muthers (JKU) "Industrial Organization in General Equilibrium“
11:15-12:15	Paul Pichler (U Vienna) "Cryptocurrencies"
12:30	Lunch
13:30-15:30	Hike and Conversations
16:00-17:00	Wolfgang Frimmel (JKU) "Spousal Retirement and Health (Behavior)"
17:00-17:15	Coffee
17:15-18:15	Alice Kügler (CEU) "Displacement Effects in Manufacturing"
18:30	Dinner
Friday, 25.3.2022
09:00-10:00	Alexander Ahammer (JKU) "Outside Options and Worker Motivation"
10:00-10:15	Coffee
10:15-11:15	Dieter Pennerstorfer (JKU) "Modeling Inter-regional Patient Mobility: Theory and Evidence from Spatially Explicit Data"
11:15-12:15	Jochen Güntner (JKU) "Brexit News Shocks and the UK Economy"
12:30	Lunch

In 2020 and 2021, the staff seminar did not take place due to Corona.

Program of the Staff Seminar 2019
Place: Hotel Wesenufer/Waldkirchen am Wesen, opens an external URL in a new window (Anreise, opens an external URL in a new window (PDF))
Wednesday, 04.12.2019
19:00	Dinner
20:00	Kamingespräch - René Böheim (JKU) "Women in Economics"
Thursday, 05.12.2019
09:00 - 10:00	Alexander Ahammer (JKU) "Dying to Work: The Effect of Unemployment on Opioid Prescriptions and Risky Behavior"
10:00-10:15	Coffee
10:15-11:15	Hartmut Egger (Universität Bayreuth) "Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition“
11:15-12:15	Eduard Brandstätter (JKU) "The Goal is not the Route: Utility Maximization without Maximizing Expected Utilities"
12:30	Lunch
13:30-15:30	Hike and Conversations
16:00-17:00	Jochen Güntner (JKU) "Oil Price Shocks and the Hedging Benefit of Airline Investments"
17:00-17:15	Coffee
17:15-18:15	Wilhelm Kohler (Universität Tübingen) "Firm Productivity and the Firm Boundary"
18:30	Dinner
Friday, 06.12.2019
09:00-10:00	Dieter Pennerstorfer (JKU) "Consumer Information and Price Transmission: Empirical Evidence"
10:00-10:15	Coffee
10:15-11:15	Karin Mayr-Dorn (JKU) "Internationalization Strategies of Multi-product Firms: The Role of Technology"
11:15-12:15	Daniel Schäfer (JKU) "Nominal Wage Adjustments and Components of Pay: New Evidence from Payroll Data"
12:30	Lunch

Program of the Department Seminar 2018
Place: Hotel Wesenufer/Waldkirchen am Wesen, opens an external URL in a new window (Anreise, opens an external URL in a new window (PDF))
Thursday, 29.11.2018
19:00	Dinner
20:00	Dieter Pennerstorfer (JKU Linz) “When Weak Ties are Strong: Neighborhood Analysis of Ethnic Enclaves“
Friday, 30.11.2018
09:00 - 10:00	Mario Lackner (JKU Linz) „The Effect of Intermediate Ranking on Effort in Multi-Stage Competitions - Causal Evidence from Nordic Combined“
10:00-10:15	Coffee
10:15-11:15	Karin Mayr-Dorn (JKU Linz) „Job search and effort on the job with asymmetric information and firm learning”
11:15-12:15	Alexander Ahammer (JKU Linz) "The Effect of Prenatal Maternity Leave on Short and Long-term Child Outcomes"
12:30	Lunch
13:30-15:30	Hike and Conversations
16:00-17:15	Michael Irlacher (LMU München, opens an external URL in a new window) "Corporate Taxation, Multi-product Firms and International Trade"
17:15-17:30	Coffee
17:30-18:45	Christoph Moser (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, opens an external URL in a new window) "Gambling for Resurrection? The Influence of Luck on Performance and Risk-Taking in a Competitive Environment"
19:00	Dinner
Saturday, 1.12.2018
09:00-10:00	Lorenz Benedikt Fischer (JKU Linz) “Space needs time needs space - regional spatio-temporal dynamic”
10:00-10:15	Coffee
10:15-11:15	Christoph Eder (JKU Linz) "Economic Origins of Cultural Norms: The Case of Animal Husbandry and Bastardy"
11:15-12:15	Matthias Fahn (JKU Linz) “What Drives Reciprocal Behavior? The Optimal Provision of Incentives over the Course of Careers”
12:30	Lunch

Program of the Department Seminar 2017
Place: Hotel Wesenufer, opens an external URL in a new window / Waldkirchen am Wesen (Anreise, opens an external URL in a new window (PDF))
Thursday, 23.11.2017
19:00	Lunch
20:00	Kamingespräch Studienplan und Institutsstruktur
Friday, 24.11.2017
09:00-10:15	Jochen Güntner (JKU) Noise-ridden lending cycles
10:15-10:30	Stefan Bauernschuster (Universität Passau) Bismarck’s Health Insurance and the Mortality
12:00	Lunch
13:30 - 15:30	Hike and conversation
16:00 - 17:15	Thomas Schober (JKU) Birth order and health
17:15 - 17:30	Coffee
17:30 - 18:45	Matthias Fahn (JKU) Teamwork as a Self-Disciplining Device
19:00	Dinner
Sathurday, 25.11.2017
09:00 - 10:00	Johannes Muthers (JKU Linz) Competition, Collusion and Spatial Sales Patterns – Theory and Evidence?
10:00 - 10:15	Coffee
10:15 - 11:15	Jakob Kapeller (JKU) What’s structural’ about unemployment in Europe: On the Determinants of the European Commission’s NAIRU Estimates?
11:15 - 12:15	Michael Lapinski (JKU) The hidden costs of mass layoffs – do worker salter their productivity when their colleagues are fired?
12:15	Lunch

Program of the Department Seminar 2016
Place: Hotel SPES, opens an external URL in a new window / Schlierbach (Anreise, opens an external URL in a new window)
Thursday, 24.11.2016
19:00	Lunch
20:00	Kamingespräch: Karl Lehner (Gespag): „Integrierte Versorgung im stationären Gesundheitssystem“ Studienplan und Institutsstruktur
Friday, 25.11.2016
09:00 - 10:15	Wolfgang Frimmel (JKU) "The Intergenerational Causal Effect of Tax Evasion"
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee
10:30 - 11:45	Nicole Schneeweis (JKU) "Parental leave, formal childcare and long-term child outcomes"
12:00	Lunch
13:30 - 15:30	Hike and Conversation
16:00 - 17:15	Franz Hackl (JKU) “Do price adjustment costs matter in e-commerce?”
17:15 - 17:30	Coffee
17:30 - 18:45	Anton Hartl (JKU) “Some doubts about the carbon leakage effect of the Kyoto Protocol”
19:00	Dinner
Sathurday, 26.11.2016
09:00 - 10:00	Christine Zulehner (Uni Frankfurt) "Evaluation of bidding groups in first-price auctions"
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee
10:30 - 11:45	Alexander Ahammer (JKU) "Do Physicians With In-House Pharmacies Prescribe More Than Others?"
12:00	Lunch

Program of the Department Seminar 2015
Place: Mühltalhof, opens an external URL in a new window / Neufelden (Anreise, opens an external URL in a new window)
Thursday, 27.11.2015
19:00	Lunch
20:00	Kamingespräch: Martina Zweimüller (JKU Linz): “The early origins of inequality - evidence & implications” Studienplan und Institutsstruktur
Friday, 28.11.2015
09:00 - 10:15	Nikolaus Fink (JKU Linz) “Registered Cartels in Austria”
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee
10:30 - 11:45	Mario Lackner (JKU Linz) “Are Competitors forward looking?”
12:00	Lunch
13:30 - 15:30	Hike and Conversation
16:00 - 17:15	Derya Uysal (IHS, Wien) "Microeconometric Evaluation of Malaria Control Programs in SubSaharan Africa”
17:15 - 17:30	Coffee
17:30 - 18:45	Jochen Güntner (JKU Linz) “Lending Standards, Credit Booms and Monetary Policy”
19:00	Dinner
Sathurday, 29.11.2015
09:00 - 10:00	Bernd Ebersberger (JKU und MCI Innsbruck) „Knowledge Interaction and Performance: Does Openness Matter? “
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee
10:30 - 11:45	Bernhard Schmidpeter (JKU Linz) „The fatal consequences of grief“
12:00	Lunch

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Previous Departement Seminars.

Program of the Staff Seminar 2023

Program of the Staff Seminar 2022

In 2020 and 2021, the staff seminar did not take place due to Corona.

Program of the Staff Seminar 2019

Program of the Department Seminar 2018

Program of the Department Seminar 2017

Program of the Department Seminar 2016

Program of the Department Seminar 2015