Christiane Baumeister, the Lambert Family Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, visited our department from July 10th to 13th. During her visit, Christiane actively collaborated with members of the PLUS Department of Economics on projects involving the integration of micro and macroeconomic data in econometric models, as well as nonparametric techniques for oil price forecasting.

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lisa Windsteiger’s research about perceived inequality, socio-economic segregation and which factors affect public support for economic policies is featured in “Die Presse”.

Petra Tschuchnig, PhD student at PLUS Department of Economics, recently attended the summer school “Microeconometrics and Policy Evaluation – Modern Estimation Methods and Machine Learning” at the renowned Paris School of Economics (PSE). She is “grateful for the knowledge gained and the amazing people I met!”