CIVIS BIP: Participatory Tools for Urban Planning and Management – Presence Phase in Salzburg
From May 27th to 31st, 2024, lecturers and students from CIVIS partner universities visited Paris Lodron University Salzburg as part of a Blended Intensive Program (BIP). These interuniversity courses are characterized by a hybrid model that combines monthly online lectures with a final blocked presence phase.
University-wide Student Exchange between PLUS and the University of Melbourne
Students from the University of Salzburg (PLUS) have an exciting new opportunity to spend time abroad at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Under the terms of a new partnership agreement, students of both institutions can apply for an exchange semester in a wide range of subjects. The University of Melbourne is Australia’s leading university and was placed 14 in the QS worldwide rankings in 2023.
On the strategic interaction of AI advisors and human managers
The paper “Strategic Responses to Algorithmic Recommendations: Evidence from Hotel Pricing” by Daniel Garcia (U Vienna), Juha Tolvanen (U Tor Vergata Rome), and Alexander K. Wagner (PLUS) is now available in Management Science, a top journal for research in Business, Economics and Management. The paper theoretically and empirically studies the strategic interaction between an algorithmic AI advisor that recommends prices and a human manager who sets prices based on the algorithm’s price recommendations in the context of hotel room pricing.
