February 21\, 2025\, 15:30 p.m. Philip Lane (ECB)
Philip R. Lane joined the European Central Bank as a Member of the Exe cutive Board in 2019. He is responsible for the Directorate General Economi cs and the Directorate General Monetary Policy. Before joining the ECB\, he was the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. He has also chaired the A dvisory Scientific Committee and Advisory Technical Committee of the Europe an Systemic Risk Board and was Whately Professor of Political Economy at Tr inity College Dublin. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Econom ic Policy Research. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin\, he was awarded a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1995 and was Assistant Profess or of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University from 1995 to 1997\, before returning to Dublin. In 2001 he was the inaugural recipien t of the Bernácer Prize for outstanding contributions to European monetary economics. ORGANISATION The 17th FIW-Research Conference ‘International Economics is organized by FIW with support from the Program Committee and t he Austrian Federal Ministries for Education Science and Research (BMBFW) a nd Labour and Economy (BMAW). ABOUT FIW The FIW - Research Centre Intern ational Economics (https://www.fiw.ac.at) is a cooperation between the Vien na University of Economics and Business (WU)\, the University Vienna\, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Innsbruck\, WIFO and wiiw. FIW is grateful for financial support by the Austrian Federal Ministr ies for Education\, Research and Science (BMBFW) and Labour and Economy (BM AW). Questions may be addressed to fiw-pb@fiw.ac.at or alexander.hudetz@ wifo.ac.at. Attendance of the FIW Research Conference is free of charge. Th e conference language is English. Travel expenses will not be refunded. AWA RDS Two prizes for the best contributions to the Research Conference will b e awarded - the ‘Best Conference Paper Award 25’ and the ‘Young Econo mist Award 25’. Each award is worth € 1000. The "Young Economist Award " has been awarded to Edoardo Tolva for his paper "Oligopolies in Trade and Transportation: Implications for the Gains from Trade". The "Best Paper Aw ard" for the best contribution to this year's conference went to Toshiaki K omatsu (with co-author Emmanuel Dhyne) for the paper "Job Ladder and Dynami c Monopsony in Pro-production Networks". The ‘Young Economist Award 25’ is intended for Ph.D. students\, young faculty members and young researche rs 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 T he broad topic of the conference is ‘International Economics’. This inc ludes\, inter alia\, International Trade\, International Factor Movements\, Economic Integration\, Effects of international economic activities on Cli mate Change\, Trade Policy\, International Trade Organizations\, Economic G rowth of Open Economies\, Multinational Firms\, Global Value Chains\, Inter national Macroeconomics and other related fields. Program Committee Hara ld Oberhofer (FIW\, WU Vienna\, WIFO) Julia Bachtrögler-Unger (WIFO) Marta Bisztray (KTRK\, Budapest) Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma (WU Vienna) Alejandro Cun at (University of Vienna) Peter Egger (ETH Zürich) Katharina Erhardt (HHU Düsseldorf\, DICE) Harald Fadinger (University of Vienna) Gabriel Felberma yr (WIFO\, WU Vienna) Lisandra Flach (LMU Munich) Jochen Güntner (JKU Linz ) Michael Irlacher (JKU Linz) Inga Heiland (University of Oslo) Brigitte Ho chmuth (University of Vienna) Mario Holzner (wiiw) Mario Larch (University of Bayreuth) Dalia Marin (TU Munich) Karin Mayr-Dorn (JKU Linz) Birgit Meye r (WIFO) Katrin Rabitsch (WU Vienna) Michael Pfaffermayr (University of Inn sbruck) Robert Stehrer (wiiw) Julia Spornberger (University of Hohenheim) Roman Stöllinger (TU Delft) Gabriele Tondl (WU Vienna) Joschka Wanner (Un iversity of Würzburg) Yvonne Wolfmayr (WIFO) Questions may be addressed to fiw-pb@fiw.ac.at or alexander.hudetz@wifo.ac.at. The conference programme will be published on https://www.fiw.ac.at and https://conference2025.fiw.a c.at Attendance of the FIW Research Conference is free of charge. The confe rence language is English. Travel expenses will not be refunded. SUMMARY:17. FIW-Research Conference International Economics ORGANIZER:FIW URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.fiw.ac.at/event/17-fiw-research-conference-international-econom ics/ TRANSP:OPAQUE BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250218 DESCRIPTION:Reminder for 17. FIW-Research Conference International Economics END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR