Das FIW – Kompetenzzentrum "Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft" kündigt seine 16. Forschungskonferenz "International Economics" an und bitte um die Einreichung von (vollständigen) Workping Papers, die auf der Konferenz präsentiert werden sollen. Das Hauptziel der Konferenz ist es, Wirtschaftswissenschafter:innen, die auf dem Gebiet der "Internationalen Wirtschaft" arbeiten, eine Plattform zu bieten, um aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zu präsentieren. Beiträge von Doktorand:innen, jungen Fakultätsmitgliedern und jungen Forscher:innen in ähnlichen Positionen sind besonders willkommen, da die Konferenz junge Wirtschaftswissenschafter:innen unterstützen und ermutigen soll, indem sie ihnen die Möglichkeit gibt, ihre Arbeit sowohl anderen jungen Wirtschaftswissenschafter:innen als auch erfahrenen älteren Forscher:innen vorzustellen. Die Konferenz soll auch Forscher:innen und politische Entscheidungsträger:innen zusammenbringen, um ein Forum für Diskussionen darüber zu bieten, wie empirische Erkenntnisse effektiver in die aktuelle Wirtschaftspolitik einfließen können.

WIFO is pleased to host the 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association. The event will take place at the University of Vienna from 8 to 10 January 2024.

Technological change is seen as an important driver of employment and wage polarisation, because it changes the relative demand for different types of skills. However, a different way to characterise the role of technological change in the labour market is that it changes the bargaining position of workers, not only vis-a-vis their employers, but also one another. This draws attention to teamwork and the way that technology changes the division of labour within teams and across organisations and cities. Building on this insight, I will first discuss the role of co-worker complementarity in wages and wage premiums and then turn to a case study of how the organisational innovations that helped coordinate inventor teams in the 1920s had dramatic consequences for the workings and geography of the innovation system of the USA.

The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) is very pleased to announce the 14th international workshop in honour of Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and member of WIFO's International Board.

The Johannes Kepler University Linz and the Competence Center "Research Focus International Economics" cordially invite you to the next FIW Workshop on "Firms, Workers, and Institutions in the Global Economy".

Harald Oberhofer discusses the topic "The Economic Dividend of Competitiveness" with the Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy Fredrik Erixon (ECIPE).

Although there is a substantial body of literature examining the impact of innovation on agricultural productivity, there is limited empirical evidence regarding the effects of digitalisation, particularly in relation to livestock farming. This lack of literature may be due to the unavailability of farm-level data. We employ accounting data from pig farmers to estimate total factor productivity using the control function approach. Then, we examine the various factors that affect the productivity growth of farmers, such as ICT investments, farm size, and the age of the farmers.

Following upon the first five editions of WIEN, the University of Vienna will again host a two-day meeting that will draw together researchers interested in international economics, global value chains and economic geography. The workshop is generously supported by the Heinrich Graph Hardegg'sche Stiftung, FIW, University of Vienna, VGSE, wiiw, and the European Research Council under the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement 724880).