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).
 

Past Events

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 Peter Huber, WIFO Liberalization of Migration and the Skill Structure of Migrants Venue: wiiw Thursday, 15 April 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