Florian Huber (PLUS) has been elected as a fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (SEM). His exceptional achievements in the field of macroeconometrics have led to this recognition as a SEM Fellow. We congratulate our colleague Florian Huber and the other esteemed scholars who have been elected as SEM Fellows in 2023.

The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) will take place in Salzburg form 28 to 29 September 2023. This year’s meeting is organized by Department of Economics of PLUS. Full papers can now be submitted for the meeting until 1 May 2023. Hope to see you in Salzburg for the NOeG!

In “Der ökonomische Blick” of the newspaper Die Presse, Lisa Windsteiger (PLUS) discusses the results of a large-scale survey experiment which she carried out with colleagues from the Ifo Institut. In this project they elicited citizens’ attitudes and perceptions regarding the efficiency of rent control policies.