6th Vienna Workshop on High Dimensional Time Series in Macroeconomics and Finance

On May 16 and 17, 2024, the 6th Vienna Workshop on High Dimensional Time Series in Macroeconomics and Finance co-organized by Martin Wagner was held at the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna.

The Quantitative Economics Division of the Department of Economics contributed three presentations:

R. Kawka, M. Vetter and M. Wagner: “Robust Inference for the Long Run”
S. Veldhuis and M. Wagner: “Integrated Modified OLS Estimation and Inference in Systems of I(2) Cointegrating Regressions”
D. Bauer, A. Konstantopoulos, M. Wagner and Ch. Zwatz: “On (Static) Linear Transformations of VAR Models”

8. Mikro-Workshop

The 8th Micro-Workshop takes place on Thursday, May 16, 2024 in room N.0.43 from 12:00-14:30.

The presentation is held by  Dr. Daniel Rehsmann MSc. BSc. The title of the presentation is „Choose your auction: Mechanism design for a bidder“.

All guests are welcome!

A Machine Learning Approach to Smart Electricity Management

The project „A Machine Learning Approach to Smart Electricity Management: From Disaggregation to Policy Impact Evaluation” – submitted by Wilfried Elmenreich and Martin Wagner – has been awarded a predoc position following the second call in the „Ada Lovelace Programme“ by the Universisty of Klagenfurt. The project is truly interdisciplinary, located at the interface of energy systems analysis, machine learning and AI on the one hand and policy impact analysis on the other hand to estimate the economic and ecelogical potential of smart meter data and dynamic pricing.

Europe’s Mineral Trade and Global Energy Transition Nexus amid Geopolitical Risks

Congratulations to Dmitri Blüschke for being awarded a grant of EUR 442.000 by the Austrian Science Foundation for his project on “Europe’s Mineral Trade and Global Energy Transition Nexus amid Geopolitical Risks”!