Speakers from outside wiiw are invited to present topical research related to international economics and integration.
The seminar should provide a forum for the discussion of work in progress in these fields. Participants come from universities, other research institutes, the Austrian government, the National Bank and, depending on the topic, commercial banks and the business community.
 
The seminar is organized by wiiw and is part of the activities of FIW (Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft).
It is held at wiiw, 1060 Vienna, Rahlgasse 3, lecture hall (entrance from ground floor), on Thursdays, 4 to 5:30 p.m. (unless otherwise stated).
 

Upcoming Events

Past Events

Ian Wooton, University of Strathclyde FDI, Trade Costs and Regional Asymmetries Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 6 June 2013, 4:00 pm DETAILS Konstantin M. Wacker, University of Göttingen The Role of Risk and Information for International Capital Flows: New Evidence from the SDDS Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 27 June 2013, 4:00 pm DETAILS

Joseph Francois, Johannes Kepler University (JKU), CEPR Mega-FTAs and the EU Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 16 May 2013, 4:00 pm DETAILS Harald Oberhofer, University Salzburg Internationalization of service SMEs: Evidence from France Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 18 April 2013, 4:00 pm DETAILS Rafael Lata (with Thomas Scherngell and Thomas Brenner), Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) Integration Processes in European R&D: A comparative spatial interaction approach using project based R&D networks, co-patent networks and co-publication networks Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 14 March 2013, 4:00 pm DETAILS Svetlana Ledyaeva (with Päivi Karhunen and John Whalley), Helsinki School of Economics If foreign investment is not foreign: Round-trip versus genuine foreign investment in Russia Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 28 February 2013, 4:00 pm DETAILS Holger Görg (with Surafel Girma, Yundan Gong and Sandra Lancheros), Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel University (CAU) Foreign ownership structure, technology upgrading and exports: Evidence from Chise firms Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 24 January 2013, 4:00 pm DETAILS Katharina Steiner (with Christian Schitter, Maria Silgoner, Julia Wörz), OeNB Fishing in the same pool: Export strengths and competitiveness of China and CESEE at the EU-15 Market Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 13 December 2012, 4:00 pm DETAILS Tobias Brändle (with Andreas Koch), IAW Tübingen Measuring and Classifying Determinants of Offshoring Jobs Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 8 November 2012, 4:00 pm DETAILS Hugo Rojas-Romagosa (with Semih Akcomak and Suzanne Kok), CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis The effects of technology and offshoring on changes in employment and the task-content of occupations Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 18 October 2012, 4:00 pm DETAILS Kiyotaka Sato (with Nagendra Shrestha), Yokohama National University Global and Regional Shock Transmission ― New Evidence from Globally Integrated Input-Output Table Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Tuesday, 25 September 2012, 4:00 pm DETAILS Sandra Leitner, wiiw Gravitational forces of cross-border R&D expenditure Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 21 June 2012, 4:00 pm DETAILS Frédèric Warzynski, Aarhus University Markups and Firm-Level Export Status Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 24 May 2012, 4:00 pm cancelled DETAILS László Halpern (Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Gábor Békés (Central European University, Budapest) Still standing: how European firms weathered the crisis Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Monday, 14 May 2012, 4:00 pm DETAILS Markus Kelle, Università degli Studi di Milano, wiiw Crossing Industrial Borders: German Manufacturers as Services Exporters Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 3 May 2012, 4:00 pm DETAILS Neil Foster, wiiw; (with Rod Falvey) On the Trade and Price Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 12 January 2012, 4:00 pm DETAILS Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Session 2 Commodity prices, financial speculation and the food crisis Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Monday, 12 December 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS C.P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; (with Jayati Ghosh) - Session 1 Upheaval in the World Economy: China and India as a Challenge to Europe Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Monday, 12 December 2011, 3:00 pm DETAILS Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma, Vienna University of Economics and Business Estimating Bilateral Relationships from Aggregated Data Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 1 December 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS Harald Fadinger, University of Vienna Skill-biased technological change, unemployment and brain drain Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 17 November 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS Gaaitzen de Vries, University of Groningen; (with Marcel Timmer, Abdul Azeez Erumbana, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer) Slicing up Global Value Chains Venue: wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Thursday, 13 October 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS Giorgia Giovannetti, University of Florence and European University Institute The "China Effect" on EU Exports Venue: wiiw Thursday, 16 June 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS Robert Stehrer, wiiw Made in ? - Trade in value added and factors Venue: wiiw Thursday, 12 May 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham Did the container increase trade? Initial explorations Venue: wiiw Thursday, 31 March 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS Konstantins Benkovskis, Bank of Latvia (currently spending a research period at OeNB) The Quality and Variety of Exports from New EU Member States: Evidence from Very Disaggregated Data Venue: wiiw Thursday, 3 March 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS Mario Larch, University of Bayreuth Unemployment in an Interdependent World Venue: wiiw Thursday, 27 January 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS Liliane Giardino-Karlinger, University of Vienna Lock-In, Vertical Integration, and Investment: The Case of Eastern European Firms Venue: wiiw Thursday, 13 January 2011, 4:00 pm DETAILS Carolina Lennon, wiiw Competition in Manufacturing and the Service Content of Manufactured Products Venue: wiiw Thursday, 16 December 2010, 4:00 pm DETAILS Julien Prat, Institute of Economic Analysis, Barcelona Trade and Unemployment: What do the data say? Venue: wiiw Thursday, 25 November 2010, 4:00 pm DETAILS Julia Wörz, OeNB The Rise and Fall of International Trade: Deconstructing Trade and Value Added Venue: wiiw Thursday, 11 November 2010, 2:00 pm DETAILS Yuko Kinoshita, IMF Sectoral Composition of Foreign Direct Investment and External Vulnerability Venue: wiiw Monday, 25 October 2010, 2:00 pm DETAILS Konstantin Wacker, University of Göttingen 'Addressing the Best Enemy': The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Developing Countries’ Terms of Trade Venue: wiiw Thursday, 7 October 2010, 4:00 pm DETAILS Richard Frensch, Institute for East European Studies, Regensburg European Trade in Parts and Components: Searching (for a Trade Model for Searching) for Offshoring Evidence Venue: wiiw Thursday, 17 June 2010, 5:30 pm DETAILS Christian Bellak, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Does the Impact of Employment Protection Legislation on Foreign Direct Investment Differ by the Skill Intensity of Locations? An Empirical Investigation Venue: wiiw Thursday, 17 June 2010, 4:00 pm DETAILS Giovanni Faccini, Erasmus University Rotterdam Electoral Concerns, Special Interests and Illegal Immigration Venue: wiiw Thursday, 20 May 2010, 4:00 pm DETAILS Alejandro Cunat, University of Vienna Trade Liberalization and Heterogeneous Firm Models: An Evaluation Using the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement Venue: wiiw Monday, 3 May 2010, 4:00 pm DETAILS Bart Los, University of Groningen Addressing Keller's Critique: More on the Identification of Productive Technology Spillovers Venue: wiiw Thursday, 25 March 2010, 4:00 pm DETAILS Doris A. Oberdabernig, University of Innsbruck The Effects of Structural Adjustment Programs on Poverty and Income Distribution Venue: wiiw Thursday, 4 March 2010, 4:00 pm DETAILS