Time: December 12h - December 13th, 2022
Venue:
Vienna University of Economics and Business
LC (Library Center) - gallery (LC 0.004)
Welthandelsplatz 1
1020 Vienna
Austria
Funded by:
FIW – Research Centre International Economics, Austria
Organized by:
Peter Egger (ETH Zürich)
Alexander Hudetz (WIFO)
Harald Oberhofer (WU Vienna, WIFO)
Contact: FIW-Project Office (fiw-pb(at)fiw.ac.at)
We kindly ask for registration until December 6th, 2022
Day 1: December 12th, 2022
Opening Remarks: 10:45 a.m.
Session I: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.– Chair: Peter Egger
Valeria Merlo (University Tübingen)
Identifying tax-response functions from local fiscal policy programs
(with Andreas Schanbacher, Georg Thunecke und Georg Wamser)
Katharina Erhardt (hhu Düsseldorf)
Winners and losers of the 2015 Swiss exchange rate shock: Unveiling heterogeneous worker responses (with Patrick Ani, Peter Egger, Matthias Gubler, Philip Sauré)
Lunch Break: 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Session II: 1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.– Chair: Harald Oberhofer
Julia Bachtrögler-Unger (WIFO)
Euroscepticism and EU Cohesion Policy: The impact of micro-level policy effectiveness on voting behaviour (with Harald Oberhofer)
Giovanni Facchini (University of Nottingham
Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion
(with Roberto Bonfatti, Alexander Tarasov, Gian Luca Tedeschi, Cecilia Testa)
Coffee Break: 3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Keynote lecture I: 3:44 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Treb Allen (Darthmouth College)
The Topography of Nations
Adjourn
Day 2: December 13th, 2022
Keynote lecture II: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)
Clean Growth
Coffee Break: 10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Session III: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. Chair: Peter Egger
Pamina Koenig (Université of Rouen-Normandie, Paris School of Economics)
Sold to China: the impact of port ownership on container traffic
(with Claude Duvallet, Yoann Pigné, Sandra Poncet, Mathieu Sanch Maritan)
Claudia Steinwender (LMU Munich)
All aboard: The effects of port development
(with César Ducruet, Réka Juhász, Dávid Kriztián Nagy)
Break: 12:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session IV: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Sun Kyoung Lee (University of Michigan)
European Immigrants and the United States’s Rise to the Technological Frontier
(with Costas Arkolakis, Michael Peters)
Peter Egger (ETH Zürich)
China’s Dazzling Transport-infrastructure Growth: Measurement and Effects
(with Gabriel Loumeau & Nicole Loumeau)
End of Workshop
