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...

After reviewing basic identification strategies in econometrics as well as reviewing main ideas and methods of supervised machine learning, the main part of the lectures concerns causal machine learning, i.e. how to combine the prediction methods of the machine learning literature with the...

Populist parties and actors now govern various countries around the world. Often elected by the public in times of crises and over the perceived failure of ‘the elites’, the question stands as to how populist governments actually perform once elected, especially in times of crisis. Using the...

8th Emerging Scholars Colloquium will be hosted as an online event (using Zoom) on August 23-24(and possibly 25), 2021. The aim of the colloquium is to provide an opportunity for emerging scholars in social and environmental accounting (SEA) research to present and discuss their research...

Data is critical to understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. When tracking the spread of SARS-CoV-2, there is a strong focus on epidemiological data such as aggregated case numbers and the reproduction rate. Modeling can help understand disease dynamics and make predictions about the future course...

Jobs, Gehälter, Mieten, Infrastruktur: Bereits vor der Pandemie bestimmten regionale Unterschiede die Lebensverhältnisse innerhalb Deutschlands. Wenn es um Einkommen und Beschäftigung, die Verkehrsanbindung der Bürger/innen, deren Versorgung mit schnellem Internet oder den Zugang zu Bildung...

We will talk about business schools’ role in social responsibility. The difficulties of the global pandemic have caused many to think even more deeply about the role business schools have in their communities and at large. You will be able to hear your peers talk about their conceptualization...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives around the world, it is becoming clear that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive effect on gender equality. Sociologist Jutta Allmendinger recently claimed the pandemic will set Germany back 30 years in terms of the...

Die ökonomischen Folgen der Pandemie sind noch nicht voll sichtbar und werden sehr wahrscheinlich noch länger spürbar sein. Zusammen mit den Präsidenten von sechs Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft wollen wir zunächst über die Auswirkungen der Pandemie auf den...