Jörg Paetzold (PLUS) receives SNSF Research Exchange Grant to study the effects of free public transport on the mobility behavior of the population. In a current research project Jörg Paetzold is investigating the extent to which free public transport can help to facilitate a switch from individual transport (e.g. cars) to public transport (e.g. bus or rail).

Philipp Poyntner (PLUS) wins the Hans Abele Prize 2024 for his dissertation “Essays in Monetary Policy”. Congratulations! Philip joined the PLUS Department of Economics in 2023 after completing his PhD in Economics at the WU WIen.

The paper “Strategic Responses to Algorithmic Recommendations: Evidence from Hotel Pricing” by Daniel Garcia (U Vienna), Juha Tolvanen (U Tor Vergata Rome), and Alexander K. Wagner (PLUS) is now available in Management Science, a top journal for research in Business, Economics and Management. The paper theoretically and empirically studies the strategic interaction between an algorithmic AI advisor that recommends prices and a human manager who sets prices based on the algorithm’s price recommendations in the context of hotel room pricing.