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...

Themes: - Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital-Labor Substitution; - Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration: Evidence from German Establishments; - Productivity Impacts of Seasonal Migration: Evidence from New Zealand; - New-Keynesian Trade:...

The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting childbearing and family processes around the globe. First studies have documented changes in couples’ fertility plans and work division within the household, or predict fertility declines in high-income countries based on now-casting methods. Yet, the...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

The seminar introduces the participants to the methods, techniques and theories commonly used in their research area. It also offers possibilities for young researchers to get in contact with their peers, to explore new avenues of thinking, to learn collectively and to exchange ideas in a very...

The conference aims to create a forum for discussion on issues related to the recent patterns of firms’ activity, the organization of production and financing decision, as well as their determinants, consequences and implications for policymaking. This year’s issue of the conference...

The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Virtual Workshop “Towards Sustainable Growth” to be held via Zoom on 10 December 2021. RIDGE invites authors to submit papers to the Workshop. The idea is to create a forum...

The third Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network (PSDRN) offers an opportunity to bring together staff of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), think-tanks, and donor agencies involved in private sector development with academics who study private firms and...

This year marks the 3rd Global Innovative Growth Forum (GIGF) with the theme of “New Challenges for Innovative Growth in th Post-Pandemic Era”. Continuing the discussion from last year’s GIGF theme, “Innovative and Sustainable Growth in the Post COVID-19 Era”, the upcoming forum will...

Unfortunately, due to travel restrictions in the Australasia region, ICAR 2021 has been postponed until further notice. The area of anti-consumption involves much research relevant to the business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and corporate sustainability. Indeed, anti-consumption is...