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[Translate to English:] Melanie Wiener

Working together is critical to understanding new technologies

Collaboration between firms and industries is key to understanding emerging technologies, new research from WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) has revealed.

[Translate to English:] Ingrid Kubin

How business moods affect lending decisions

What role do optimistic and pessimistic expectations play in the financial markets? And how do these sentiments affect banks’ lending decisions? This question is at the heart of a recent study by…

[Translate to English:] Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

Jesús Crespo Cuaresma elected member of the Academia Europaea

Prof. Jesús Crespo Cuaresma has been appointed a full member of the Academia Europaea. The head of the Institute of Macroeconomics and deputy head of the Department of Economics is the second…

[Translate to English:] Irene Monasterolo

Stress test for investment portfolios developed

Central banks and financial regulators are increasingly aware that climate change poses a major threat to economic and financial stability. Investors and financial markets are also subject to…

[Translate to English:] Isabella Grabner

Individual incentives: How pay influences performance

How should companies design individual pay incentives? Do employees automatically work harder if they receive more pay? Isabella Grabner from the Institute for Strategic Management and Managerial…

[Translate to English:] Judith Kohlenberger

Refugees in Austria are healthier than refugees in Germany

June 20 is World Refugee Day. A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE looks at the health situation of asylum seekers and refugees in Germany and Austria. Together with coauthors from Germany,…

[Translate to English:] Markus Hametner

UN SDGs: The pandemic as a huge setback

The fifth edition of the Eurostat monitoring report outlines the first effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the progress the EU and its member states are making towards achieving the 17 UN Sustainable…

[Translate to English:] Jurgen Willems

Public-serving organizations hit by crises: Trust outlives scandals

For public-serving organizations, securing the trust of stakeholders is crucial. But what happens if an organization’s reputation is tarnished by allegations of abuse, misuse of donations, or…

[Translate to English:] Eva Hofmann

Trust beats punishment: How to improve the sharing economy

The sharing economy is turning the corporate world upside down. More and more companies and organizations are focusing on services and goods that are used collectively. To get customers involved in…

WU Professor Klaus Prettner, Institute for Macroeconomics

Countries closer to the equator have up to 33% less COVID infections

Countries that are closer to the equator have been shown to have less COVID-19 cases, relative to the number of residents, research from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna) has…