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...

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 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...

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...

Die Hochschulgruppenversammlung stellt die Kommunikations- und Gestaltungsplattform für Aktivitäten und Vorhaben der Studierenden im VWI e.V. dar. Neben dem Informationsaustausch werden hier verbandsbezogene Entscheidungen getroffen und die studentischen Vorstandsmitglieder in den...

The aim of this course is to be an introduction in how to do consumer behavior research, rather than to provide exhaustive coverage of the field as a whole. It will focus on evaluating papers, preparing research ideas, and developing them into research proposals in four important areas of...

The workshop will bring together researchers working on topics including, but not necessarily limited to, dynamic contracting, delegation, information acquisition and learning. Programme Areas: Organizational Economics. The organisers hope that this workshop can take place physically in Turin...