Florian Huber (PLUS) has been elected as a fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (SEM). His exceptional achievements in the field of macroeconometrics have led to this recognition as a SEM Fellow. We congratulate our colleague Florian Huber and the other esteemed scholars who have been elected as SEM Fellows in 2023.

The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) will take place in Salzburg form 28 to 29 September 2023. This year’s meeting is organized by Department of Economics of PLUS. Full papers can now be submitted for the meeting until 1 May 2023. Hope to see you in Salzburg for the NOeG!

2 June 2023 | In presence: The lecture addresses the question what timespan (detection) dogs are able to identify, find and follow human scent in an urban environment. We investigated together with the Austrian and Bavarianpolice the possibility of person tracking dogs to identify humans by aged scentsamples in the lab as well as in reality by laying trails along crossing with an agebetween one and 64 weeks. We also compared the efficiency of dogs traineddifferently to follow human tracks.