Research seminar

Research

The Department of Econonomics of the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS) invites researchers to present and discuss their latest research in economics and management.

Our research seminar is Tuesdays from 18:00–19:30. On-site talks take place in room HS 302 (FRA1OG4.420). Online talks take place on Zoom. Please contact Jörg Paetzold if you want to attend the seminar online or subscribe to our seminar’s newsletter.

14.03.2023 (on-site)	Title: Duration Dependence in Finding a Job: Applications, Interviews, Job Offers Speaker: Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich) Abstract: The job finding rate decreases with the duration of unemployment. While this is a well-established fact, we know little about the underlying reasons. We use longitudinal monthly data from job search diaries for a larger number of job seekers, which record all applications they send, along with employer callbacks and job offers. Accounting for heterogeneity, we document a decline in the number of applications and a decline in the chances of a callback over time, whereas the chances of receiving a job offer after being interviewed are found to be slightly increasing. Individual heterogeneity plays a role mostly before the interview stage. Our empirical findings can be rationalized in a job search model with statistical discrimination. Firms use elapsed unemployment duration as a signal of applicants’ productivity when making callbacks decisions and make job offer decisions based on new information revealed during the job interview. As duration negatively impacts job seekers’ chances of getting a job, those react endogenously by lowering their search effort over time.
18.04.2023 (on-site)	Title: F.A. Hayeks Weg zum Liberalismus Speaker: Hansjörg Klausinger ( Vienna University of Economics and Business) Abstract: Friedrich A. Hayek gilt den einen als Vorkämpfer für eine freiheitliche Ordnung, den anderen als Apologet des Neoliberalismus und aller diesem zugeschriebener Übel – unbestritten ist seine Stellung als eine prägende Figur für das politische Denken des 20. Jahrhunderts. Auf der Grundlage des eben erschienenen ersten Teils seiner Biographie wird hier Hayeks Weg zur Begründung eines neuen Liberalismus dargestellt: Die Emanzipation von den prägenden Vorurteilen der familiären Herkunft in den Wiener wissenschaftlichen „Kreisen“, die Auseinandersetzung mit Keynes, die wegweisenden Beiträge zur Verwertung des Wissens in der Gesellschaft und die Warnung vor Totalitarismus in The Road to Serfdom führen ihn zur Ablehnung des Laissez Faire und zur Begründung eines neuen regelbasierten Liberalismus.
02.05.2023 (on-site)	Title: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About EU Membership Trade Effects But Were Afraid to Ask Speaker: Harald Oberhofer ( Vienna University of Economics and Business) Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of the selection of particular trade data for the estimated EU membership trade effects in gravity models. We obtain 543 estimates for EU membership trade effects from a standard specification of the gravity model using eleven different data sources and sample periods. These are used to perform a meta-regression analysis aiming to explore the sources for heterogeneity in the obtained estimates. The findings from the meta study highlight the crucial role of domestic trade flows for the magnitude of the EU membership trade effect. The estimated EU trade effect is between 33.6% and 55.3% larger in datasets that also account for trade diversion from domestic trade. Furthermore, the estimated EU membership trade effects also vary with the time period, country coverage, and the level of disaggregation available in the data sources. Alternative estimation packages, the use of interval data and the replacement of exports by import data as the outcome of interest do not significantly affect the estimated magnitudes of the EU membership trade effects.
23.05.2023 (on-site)	Title: tba Speaker: Christoph Moser/ Maximilian Fleig/ Stefan Suttner (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg) Abstract: tba
06.06.2023 (on-site)	Title: tba Speaker: Heiner Schumacher (University of Innsbruck) Abstract: tba

Previous research seminars: Winter 2022, Summer 2022, Winter 2021