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.

On 19 March, St Barbara’s Cemetery hosted a lecture by the renowned religious scholar Martin Rötting in the Great Farewell Hall. The topic was Christianity and belief in the resurrection. The talk highlighted similarities and differences with the salvation beliefs of the major religions, as well as spiritual worldviews such as nature religions, shamanism and meditative approaches.

At the PLUS – the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg – we see studying not only as education, and as preparation not only for a career, but also for life. The PLUS offers numerous Master‘s degree programmes. 35% are taught in English.