On June 23, 2023, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Viktoriia Shkola, within the Project of the Programme EU Erasmus+ «Implementation of European Union mechanisms for combating modern challenges and threats» (101085700 – IMEU – ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH) (2022-2025), has taken part in the 22nd Bavarian Micro Day held at the Chair of Applied Microeconomics of the University of Augsburg (Germany).
The researchers and academics from University of Bamberg (Germany), Technical University of Munich (Germany), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Sumy State University (Ukraine), Ulm University (Germany), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany), University of Passau (Germany) have presented and have discussed the results of theoretical, empirical and experimental research.
During the event, a number of issues, namely determinants of fathers’ parental leave taking into account the aspects of Neoclassical theory, social norms and the role of the partner; public child care and mothers’ career trajectories; foreign classmates and secondary education track choice during the “Refugee Crisis” (evidence from Germany); motivated procrastination; the coarseness of moral language; partisan effects of information campaigns in competitive authoritarian elections (evidence from Bangladesh) and a vertically differentiated duopoly model with environmental awards, have been discussed.
In general, Bavarian Micro Day is aimed at doctoral students, post-docs and professors interested in microeconomics research in a broad sense, and fosters the exchange and networking among microeconomists.
We sincerely thank the speakers and organizers – Prof. Dr. Kerstin Roeder – for a professional, meaningful, extremely relevant and interesting meeting, and we hope for continued fruitful cooperation.