Research Seminar

Modul University Vienna invites international scholars to share their expertise and present latest research!

Presentations and subsequent discussions last for about 30 minutes each. All sessions are live-streamed, free to attend, and open to the public. No registration needed!

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Richard A. Werner

Linacre College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Title: “Credit Creation and Allocation: A Research Program in Evidence-Based Economics"
Date: March 22th 2024 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Location: Modul University, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 2.06
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Abstract (mouseover)Abstract
According to Stanford economics professors, macroeconomics has not made progress for at least a century, as fundamental questions remain unresolved. Likewise, the Washington Consensus to development policies cannot point to any country that has decisively moved from developing to developed country status on the basis of its policies. Open questions revolve around the role of money and the treatment of banks. In this seminar a research programme in macro finance is presented that adopts the inductive research methodology and hence incorporates the key macroeconomic function of banks in our understanding of the economy, namely their role in credit creation. Together with the qualitative distinction between different avenues of credit allocation, many of the previously unresolved issues in macroeconomics are resolved. Tests, applications and further research avenues are discussed. This includes the topic of the resolution and prevention of banking crises and the role of Quantitative Easing.
Bio (mouseover)Bio

Professor Richard A. Werner, MA, D.Phil. (Oxon), FRSA is professor in economics and banking. He graduated from the London School of Economics with First Class Honours in Economics and holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford. Richard is a Member of Linacre College, Oxford.

He has been professor of finance at the Fanhai International School of Finance of Fudan University, Shanghai, professor of international banking at the University of Southampton, professor of economics at Goethe University, Frankfurt, visiting professor at Moscow University and at several universities in Budapest. From 1997 to 2004 he was assistant professor in economics at Sophia University, Tokyo.

He worked as senior consultant to the Asian Development Bank, was visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance and visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan. He was also the first Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan.

For a decade until 2019, Richard was a member of the ECB Shadow Council. His professional experience includes work as Chief Economist of Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd., Senior Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Bear Stearns Asset Management Ltd. and chief investment officer of several global macro funds. He has been board member of a number of companies, including chairman of the audit committee of an LSE-listed international corporation with 5,000 staff.

Richard proposed the disaggregation of credit and its impact on asset markets and growth with his ‘Quantity Theory of Credit’. In 1995, he advanced the concept of ‘Quantitative Easing’ in Japan (formulated to expand bank credit creation to the real economy; first published in the leading daily newspaper, the Nikkei, on 2 September 1995). This was adopted by major central banks. His book ‘Princes of the Yen’ (www.quantumpublishers.com) was a No. 1 bestseller in Japan, beating Harry Potter for six weeks as general bestseller. In its English edition of 2003, Richard Werner warned of the coming creation of credit bubbles and banking crises in the eurozone. His 2005 book ‘New Paradigm in Macroeconomics’ (Palgrave Macmillan) expressed a timely warning of the 2008 banking crisis. In 2014, Richard published the first empirical proof of the fact that banks create new money when they grant loans.


Miroslav Rončák
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Date: May tba 2024 tba (Vienna local time)

Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. tba

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Reinhard Merkel
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

“Humans, Cyborgs and Humanoid Robots - Challenges for Autonomy and Responsibility"

Date: May 27th 2024 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)

Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 2.07

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Eszter Marczellné Szilágyi
Budapest Metropolitan University, Budapest, Hungary

“Knowledge Management and Emotional Intelligence"

Date: May 28th 2024 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)

Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. tba

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Oliver Fritz
Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Vienna, Austria

“tba"

Date: tba

Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. tba

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Nixon Lyndon
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

“How to Use Computer Vision and Compositional Vectors to Measure and Represent Destination Image on Instagram"

Date: tba

Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. tba

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Past Presentations

David B. Smith
City University of New York (CUNY), New York, United States of America

“Navigating Combinative Reality: Devising and Testing a Universal Theoretical Framework"

Date: March 12th 2024 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Ferenc Kiss
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary

“The Role of Knowledge in Accelerating the Development of Capital"

Date: December 5th 2023 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)


Levente Szabados
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt, Germany; Neuron Solutions

“Decomposing AI's Evolution: A Wave-Based Approach to Predicting Labour Market Impacts"

Date: November 28th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Viktor Lázár
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary

“Robotics Nations"

Date: November 17th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Zoltán Cséfalvay
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary

“The Rise of the Startup Cities in Europe - What Factors are Influencing the Startup City Landscape in Europe?"

Date: November 10th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Enikő Szakos
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary

“Map and Analysis of the Global, European, and V4 Edtech Scenes’ Present and Future"

Date: November 7th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Dénes Dávid Lóránt
John Neumann University, Kecskemét, Hungary

“Inbound and Outbound Tourism in China: New Perspectives"

Date: September 18th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Frommholz Ingo, Silva Kanishka
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

“Large Language Models and Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Humanities - A Match Made in Quantum Heaven"

Date: September 7th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Bródka Piotr
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

“Spreading Processes in Multilayer Networks - From Diseases to Influence"

Date: July 7th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Hausknost Daniel
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

“Climate Crisis and the Reactive State: Exploring the Glass Ceiling of Transformations"

Date: May 8th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Fath Brian D.
Towson University, Maryland, United States

“Human Carrying Capacity Constraints and Lessons from Systems Ecology"

Date: March 20th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Aigner Ernest
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

“APCC Special Report: Structures for Climate Friendly Living - Summary for Policy Makers"

Date: March 14th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Liu Yi-Yu
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

“The Impact of Financial Viability on Entrepreneurial Intention"

Date: January 24th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Katarzyna Sanak-Kosmowska
Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland

“Corporate Decisions at the Time of War: Consumer Attitudes Towards International Brands Operating in Russia after 24.02.2022"

Date: December 20th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Diana Lynne Stuart
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA

“Articulating System Change to Address the Climate Crisis"

Date: November 22nd 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Miroslav Rončák
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

“Quo Vadis", Prague...?

Date: November 16th 2022 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)


Anja Hergesell
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

“University clubs' contribution to students' skill development"

Date: November 14th 2022 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)


Brian Craig Petersen
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA

“Climate change, myths, and the search for real solutions"

Date: November 8th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Daniel Dan
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

“Words that trigger responses in negative hotel feedback"

Date: September 27th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Jan Blažek
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

“The Role of Community Economies and Collaborative Housing Projects in a Shared, Just and Resilient City"

Date: May 10th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Chekembayeva Gaukhar
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“The Study of Museum Virtual Tours"

Date: April 26th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Tavernaro-Haidarian Leyla
University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa

“A Human-Centered Sustainable Development Approach"

Date: April 19th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Durmusoglu Serdar S.
Modul University Vienna Campus in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

“Serial Innovators in Collectivistic Organizations: Conceptual Development, Propositions, and Antecedents"

Date: April 5th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Seewald Gabriele
Taiwan International Institute for Water Education at National Taiwan University
Spiral Seeds Consulting & Projects 

“Eco-Social Sustainability through Regenerative Development"

Date: March 2nd 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Dürrschmid Klaus
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria

“Novel Approaches in Sensory and Consumer Science"

Date: January 20th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Ponocny Ivo1, Zins Andreas2
1Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2Curtin University, Miri, Malaysia

“Tourism and Wellbeing"

Date: December 2nd 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Plzakova Lucie
Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

“Local Tourism Taxes in the Context of Collaborative Economy"

Date: November 25th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Helic Denis
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Graz, Austria

“Applied Data Science for Economic and Social Sciences"

Date: November 11th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Milone Francesco Luigi
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

“Airbnb, Gig Entrepreneurs and Middlemen: Seizing Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Platform Era Comparing Different Host Types"

Date: October 21st 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Wagner Udo
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Two Recent Studies on Sensory Marketing: Acoustic Stimuli Coupled with Out-of-Home Advertising and Consumer Intuitions when Choosing Vegan Groceries"

Date: October 14th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Ferrari Sebastian
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Overtourism: A Portrait"

Date: October 7th 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Nixon Lyndon
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Measuring Touristic Destination Image from Instagram Content Using a Deep Learning Classifier"

Date: September 30th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Sebastian Ferrari
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Overtourism - Reading Between the Lines"

Date: June 22nd 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


Ulrich Gunter
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Improving Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly Hotel Room Demand Forecasts for Vienna across Hotel Classes - Evidence from Single Forecast Models and from Forecast Combination Techniques"

Date: June 8th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


Daniel Dan
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Supporting Content Marketing with Natural Language Generation”

Date: May 31st 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (CEST)


Marion Garausa, Elisabeth Steinerb, Christian Weismayera
aModul University, Vienna, Austria; bFH Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

“Signaling Food Quality through Sensory Attributes"

Date: May 10th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


­­Nika Balomenou
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

“Photographs in Tourism Research: Prejudice, Power, Performance and Participant-Generated Images"

Date: April 26th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


­­David Leonard
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Opening a Dialogue with Faculty: How Can We Teach about Business Growth Without Implicitly Promoting Unsustainable Economic Growth”

Date: April 12th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


­­David Osho
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“A Match Made in Darkness: Examining How Social Communication Platforms have a Psychological Hold on Tourists of Dark Tourism"

Date: April 9th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


­­Hrvoje Daniel Carić
Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia

“Dubrovnik UNESCO World Heritage Site Challenges”

Date: March 1st 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CET)


­­Bogdan Pirvu
Novomatic AG, Austria

“An Introduction to Tensor Network Machine Learning”

Date: March 9th 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (CET)


­­Maximilian Benner
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

“Tourism in Israel: Regional Evolution in the Context of EU Alignment”

Date: March 15th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CET)

Sebastian Ferrari
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Overtourism: Bringing Order to Chaos”

Date: October 6th 2020 2:00 p.m.


Serdar S. Durmusoglu
Modul University Vienna Campus in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

"The Collaboratory: Three Cases in a Social Innovation Hub in Struggling Rust Belt of America"

Date: November 17th 2020 2:00 p.m.


Arno Scharl
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Detecting Emerging Stories and Emotions in the Public Debate - Web Intelligence Applications in Health, Sustainability, and Politics”

Date: November 24th 2020 2:00 p.m.


Sebastian Ferrari
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Overtourism Measurement"

Date: December 15th 2020 2:00 p.m.


Sabine Sedlacek, Christian Weismayer, Bozana Zekan, Ulrich Gunter
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Carrying Capacity Methodology for Tourism"

Date: January 12th 2021 2:00 p.m.


Mario Diaz Munoz
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“i-CONN: Connectivity, Complex Systems and Critical Flows of Energy Resources”

Date: January 19th 2021 2:00 p.m.


Petr Ocelík, Lukáš Lehotský
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

“Climate Change and Coal in Media Coverage: A Missing Link"

Date: January 26th 2021 2:00 p.m.

Klaus Renoldner
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“The Triple Benefit Principle and Carbon Pricing in Comparison - Perspectives and Limits"

March 3rd 2020 1 p.m.

Ben Wooliscroft 
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

“Adventures in Macromarketing”

October 22nd 2019 12:30 p.m.


Alexandra Ganglmair-Wooliscroft
University of Otago, New Zealand

“Which consumption counts – the complexity of quality-of-life”

October 29th 2019 12:30 p.m.


Ivana Volic 
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“The role of values in cultural policy”

November 5th 2019 12:30 p.m.


Klaus Grabler
MANOVA GmbH, Austria

“Touristic business intelligence challenges from a practical point of view”

November 19th 2019 12:30 p.m.


Sandra Guinand
University of Vienna, Austria

“The city as experience. Challenges of urban production.”

December 3rd 2019 12:30 p.m.

Hannes Antonschmidt
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“Assessing non-linear data structures with machine learning approaches"

March 5th 2019 1:00 p.m.


Ola Mostafa
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“Integration of refugees at Austrian universities”

April 25th 2019 1:00 p.m.


Martin Černý
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

“Modelling distributional impacts of the transition to renewable energy with expert elicitation”

April 30th 2019 1:00 p.m.


Marcelo Gonҫalves Oliveira
Universidade Europeia, Lisbon, Portugal

“Discursive gaps in cultural tourism”

May 7th 2019 1:00 p.m.


Ulrich Gunter, Irem Önder
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“An exploratory analysis of geotagged photos from Instagram for residents of and visitors to Vienna”

May 21st 2019 1:00 p.m.

Marion Garaus
Modul University Vienna, Austria

"Shoppers' responses to digitalization at the point-of-sale”

November 27th 2018 1 p.m.


Christian Kimmich1, Martin Cerny1, Christian Kerschner2
1Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republik; 2Modul University Vienna, Austria

“MEDEAS: Towards a zero-carbon economy for Europe”

December 4th 2018 1 p.m.


Daniel Dan
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“Text mining and analysis for marketing”

December 6th 2018 1 p.m.