12th FIW-Research Conference ‘International Economics’

5-6 December 2019

Venue: Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Arsenal, Objekt 20 A-1030 Vienna

Contact: FIW-Projektbüro, fiw-pb(at)fiw.ac.at .

We kindly ask for registration.

5 December 5 p.m.

Keynote: Peter Egger (ETH Zürich) "The US-China Trade War"

5. December 5:45 p.m.

Policy Panel: Trade Wars and the Global Economy

Moderation: Harald Badinger / Harald Oberhofer (Vienna University for Economs and Business)

Danai Budas (Federation of Austrian Industries)

Peter Egger (ETH Zürich)

Manfred Schekulin (Federal Ministry of Economic and Digital Affairs)

OUTLINE

Programme

The Research Centre International Economics - FIW announces its 12^th Research Conference ‘International Economics’ and invites the submission of (full) working papers to be presented at the conference.

The main objective of the conference is to provide a platform for economists working in the field of ‘International Economics’ to present recent research.

Papers from Ph.D. students, , young faculty members and young researchers in similar positions are particularly welcome as the conference aims to support and encourage young economists by providing an opportunity to present their work to fellow junior economists as weel as experienced senior researchers.

The conference also aims at bringing together researchers and policy makers to provide a forum for a discussion on how empirical evidence can more effectively inform actual economic policy making.

AWARDS

Two prizes for the best contributions to the Research Conference will be awarded. There will be a ‘Best Conference Paper Award 19’and a ‘Young Economist Award 19’. Each award is worth € 1000.

The ‘Young Economist Award 19’ is intended for Ph.D. students, , young faculty members and young researchers in similar positions. To be considered for this award all authors of the paper have to be 34 or younger at the time of submission.

TOPICS COVERED

The broad topic of the conference is ‘International Economics’. This includes, inter alia, International Trade, International Factor Movements, Economic Integration, Trade Policy, International Trade Organizations, Economic Growth of Open Economies, Multinational Firms, Global Value Chains, International Macroeconomics and other related fields.

 ORGANISATION

The 12^th FIW-Research Conference is jointly organized by the FIW Project , the Leibnitz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) Regensburg, IfW Kiel, the University of Ljubljana, the Universita di Bologna, University of Economics Bratislava and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA KRTK).

The FIW - Research Centre International Economics (https://www.fiw.ac.at/) is a cooperation between the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), the University Vienna, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Innsbruck, WIFO, wiiw and WSR. FIW is supported by BMBFW and BMDW.

Scientific Board

FIW: Harald Oberhofer, Robert Stehrer and Fritz Breuss

University of Vienna: Alejandro Cunat

IOS Regensburg: Olga Popova

IfW Kiel:  Gabriel Felbermayr

MTA KRTK: Márta Bisztray WU Vienna: Harald Badinger

University of Ljubljana: Jože P. Damijan

Universita di Bologna: Gaetano A. Minerva

University of Economics Bratislava: Mikulas Luptacik

Questions may be addressed to fiw-pb(at)fiw.ac.at or alexander.hudetz(at)wifo.ac.at.

The conference programme will be published on https://fiw.ac.at.

Attendance of the FIW Research Conference is free.

The conference language is English.

Travel expenses will not be refunded.