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.

7 May at 5:00PM (on-site) | Dieter Pennerstorfer (JKU Linz) will present the paper “Do co-ethnic commuters disseminate labor market information? Evidence from geocoded register data” in the next PLUS Economics Research Seminar. The presentation will take place in HS 212 (CHU1OG2.286). Looking forward to seeing you in the seminar!