Philipp Poyntner (PLUS) wins the Hans Abele Prize 2024 for his dissertation “Essays in Monetary Policy”. Congratulations! Philip joined the PLUS Department of Economics in 2023 after completing his PhD in Economics at the WU WIen.

The Department of Economics is looking for four student assistants for the winter semester 2024 and summer semester 2025! We are looking for motivated, practical and bright minds who want to support the department’s researchers in research, teaching and administrative tasks. Further details on the job advertisement can be found in the attached document. Send your application (including a CV and proof of academic success) by June 21, 2024 to Christine Wieser.

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.