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Staff Seminar of the Department of Economics.

Every year, the Department of Economics of the JKU organizes a multi-day staff seminar at which department members and friends of the department present and discuss their research results.

 

TIME: Wednesday 20 March to 22 March 2024

PLACE: Hotel Minichmayr, Steyr (Anreise, opens an external URL in a new window)

 

Program of the Staff Seminar 2024

Place: Hotel Minichmayr, Steyr, opens an external URL in a new window

 

Wednesday, 20.3.2024

19:00  Dinner

20:00 

Alexander Ahammer (JKU)
"Firms and Worker Health"

Thursday, 21.3.2024

09:15-10:15

Flora Stiftinger (JKU)
"The Economics of Breast Cancer"

10:15-10:45

Coffee

10:45-11:45 Alexandra Brausmann (U Vienna)
"Misfortunes Never Come Singly: Managing the Risk of Chain Disasters"
12:00 Lunch

13:30-15:30 

Hike and Conversations

16:00-17:00 

Katrin Zocher (JKU)
"When Women Take Over: Female Physicians and the Provision of Health Care"

17:00-17:15

Coffee

17:15-18:15 

Bernhard Kasberger (U Konstanz)
"An Equilibrium Model of the First-Price Auction with Strategic Uncertainty: Theory and Empirics"

18:30 

Dinner

Friday, 22.3.2024

09:00-10:00 

Giovanni Andreottola (JKU)
"Why Us and not Them? A Theory of Political Fact-checking"

10:00-10:15 

Coffee

10:15-11:15 

Mario Lackner (JKU)
"Positive Feedback, Risk Behavior, and Gender: Empirical Evidence from Careers in Competitive Diving"
11:15-12:15 Michael Irlacher (JKU)
"Multiproduct Firms and Monopsony Power“
12:30 Lunch