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Background: The second edition of this successfully incepted collaborative conference series focuses on the theme of data and politics -- asking questions such as the following: What is the state-of-the-art research providing evidence for policymaking in Austria? How might the process of accumulating the facts necessary for evidence-based decision-making be affected when policymakers are responding to political incentives? Might evidence itself become an issue of political debate? What does "post-truth" political rhetoric imply for the future of evidence-based policymaking?
The conference aims to foster exchange on conceptual, policy-related, and methodological issues among researchers and policymakers. The conference also provides space for discussions on imminent yet enduring questions regarding the relationship between evidence and policymaking and providers of evidence (aka experts) and policymakers.
Target audience are researchers and academics in the field of policy research in Vienna and policymakers. The conference primarily serves as a “meet and greet” for researchers from IHS, WIFO and CEU, and welcomes researchers from other institutes and universities, policymakers, as well as the wider public, to showcase exciting new research in the field of applied evidence-based policymaking.
AGENDA
11:30 am Arrival, Coffee
12:00 pm Welcome and Opening
Gabriel Felbermayr, WIFO
Klaus Neusser, IHS
Carsten Schneider, CEU
12:30 pm Opening Keynote
Katharina Wrohlich, DIW Berlin
1:15 pm-2:30 pm Part 1: Data and Policy
Moderator: Michael Dorsch, CEU
1:15 pm-1:40pm
On the macroeconomic assessment of fiscal policies during the Covid-19 crisis in Austria, Klaus Weyerstrass, IHS
Discussion
1:40 pm-2:05pm
Nontradable Goods and Fiscal Multipliers, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Christian Glocker, WIFO
Discussion
2:05 pm-2:30pm
The impact of import competition from China on firm-level productivity growth in the EU, Klaus S. Friesenbichler, Agnes Kügler, Andreas Reinstaller, WIFO
Discussion
2:30 pm-3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:00 pm-4:15 pm Part 2: Information and the Public Good
Moderator: Ulrike Famira-Mühlberger, WIFO
3:00pm-3:25 pm
Dressing-up disinformation, Akos Szegofi, Christophe Heintz, CEU
Discussion
3:25 pm-3:50pm
Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistleblowing: An Empirical Approach, Arieda Muço, CEU
Discussion
3:50 pm-4:15pm
Financial or environmental-impact framing promotes ESG investments: Evidence from a large incentivized online-experiment, Marcel Seifert, Katharina Gangl, Florian Spitzer, Simone Haeckl, Alexia Gaudeul, Erich Kirchler & Stefan Palan, IHS
Discussion
4:15 pm-4:30 pm Coffee Break
4:30 pm Afternoon Keynote
Moderator: Anand Murugesan, CEU
Jean-Robert Tyran, University of Vienna
5:15 m-6:15 pm Round Table and Panel Discussion
Moderator: Thomas König, IHS
Representatives of governance and research
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Jean-Robert Tyran (Prof. of Economics, Pro-Rector, University of Vienna, Director of Vienna Center of Experimental Economics)
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Eva Zeglovits (Director, IFES)
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Ashwien Sankholkar (Journalist, Dossier)
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Stefan Thurner (Director, Complexity Science Hub Vienna)
6:15 pm-9:00 pm Wine and Dine
Scientific Peer Group:
Dr. Thomas König, IHS
PD Dr. Ulrike Famira-Mühlberger, PhD, WIFO
Prof. Michael Dorsch, CEU
Prof. Anand Murugesan, CEU
Organisation: CEU Austrian Affairs
Dr. Ulrike Plettenbacher
Mag. Ute Springer
Mag. Michaela Topolnik (media and press)