Wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen sind Akteure in der und für die regionale Entwicklung. Man kann zurzeit beobachten, wie ihre Potentiale für den Wissenstransfer stärker in den öffentlichen Blick geraten. Es geht sowohl um technologische als auch um soziale Innovationen, die das...

This talk argues that there is a gap separating planning practice and the technical and legal requirements that smart city technologies entail. A pertinent case is Quayside, Toronto, where Sidewalk Labs (part of Alphabet and a sister company of Google) and Waterfront Toronto (a three-level...

The 2023 Easter School will be hosted by the University of Bristol and will be an in-person event at the University campus. The school will consist of guest lectures, presentations by participants and policy sessions over three days along with a social element to allow for networking. The Easter...

Topics: - Agglomeration and Industrial Clusters ; - Local and Regional Development Strategies and Policies ; - Creative Industries, Creative Cities and Regions ; - Regional Labor Market and Migration ; - Evolution, Institutions and Economic Change ; - Universities and Economic Development of...

All contributions with a focus on regional/spatial phenomena and an economic, environmental, geographical and social science background are welcome.

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

This annual training school, provides advanced training to enhance the understanding of current economic issues. This year’s school topic: Urban Economics. The Easter Training School brings together and encourages interactions among advanced postgraduate students doing doctoral research, (but...

Using OeNB Euro Survey data from fall 2020, we will briefly address the questions: Who has been affected by the covid-19 pandemic and how severely? We will look at the results along three dimensions: (1) across main socio-economic characteristics, (2) across regions and countries, (3) across...