From September 28-29, 2023, the Department of Economics at Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS) hosted the annual meeting of the Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft for the first time in Salzburg. The NOeG is the largest association of Austrian economists and about 150 participants accepted the invitation to present and discuss their latest research in Salzburg. The conference also featured two keynotes, one by Maximilian Kasy (Oxford University) on “Economics & Machine Learning” and the other by Claudia Steinwender on  “Industrial Policy during the Great Divergence”. Thanks to all participants for coming to Salzburg!

Tobias Scheckel, PhD student at the PLUS Department of Economics, recently participated in the Macroeconometrics Summer School organized by the Barcelona School of Economics. He reflects upon an experience of “great new insights and impulses”.

The Department of Economics and the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) are looking for a PhD student in Economics who is interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics related to the topic of European Union Integration. We are open for theoretical, empirical, or experimental work from all areas in Economics. The PhD position will start as soon as possible (desirably October 2023) and is fully funded for three years by SCEUS.