Date: May 7, 2012
Location: WIFO, Arsenal, Objekt 20, Vienna
9.00 – 9.15
Welcome by His Excellency Julio Cezar Zelner Gonçalves, Brazilian Ambassador to Austria (inquired), and Karl Aiginger, Director of WIFO.
9.15 – 9.45
Birgit Bednar-Friedl1, Olivia Koland, Erwin Schmid, Martin Schönhart: Climate Change Impacts on and Adaptation Measures for Agriculture in Austria in 2020 and 2050: Linking Bottom-up and Top-down Models
9.45 – 10.15
Weslem R. Faria, Alex N. Almeida: Relationship between Openness to Trade and Deforestation: Empirical Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
10.30 – 11.00
Flávio Vilela Vieira, Eduardo A. Haddad: A Panel Data Investigation on the Brazilian State Level Export Performance
11.00 – 11.30
André L. S. Chagas, Alexandre N. Almeida, Carlos R. Azzoni: Sugar Cane Burning and Human Health: A Spatial Propensity Score Matching Analysis
11.30 – 12.00
Christian Lager, Joanilio R. Teixeira: Does a Reduction of Wages in the North Create Jobs in the North? A Classical Analysis of North-South Trade
12.00 – 13.15 Lunch Break
13.15 – 14.15 WIFO Public Lecture
Eduardo Amaral Haddad, University of São Paulo: The Economics of Climate Change in Brazil
14.15 – 14.30 Coffee Break
14.30 – 15.00
Fernando S. Perobelli, Eduardo A. Haddad, Vinicius de Almeida Vale: Assessing the Brazilian Regional Economic Structure: A Spatial Output Decomposition Analysis
15.00 – 15.30
Zbigniew Mogiła: HERMIN Modeling Framework in the Context of the Polish Regions – the Thin Line between “Blind” Econometrics and Regionally-Focused Approach to the Research
15.30 – 16.00
Oliver Fritz, Eduardo A. Haddad, Alexandre Porsse, Eliane Teixeira: Sindelar 10 – A Spatial CGE Model for Austria and its Application to the Regional Consequences of an Economic Downturn
16.00 End of Workshop
Conference dinner – time and location to be announced