This month's newsletter features a first assessment of the current coronavirus outbreak, the spotlight interview with Vlasta Zucha as well as news on several publications and events.

Thomas Czypionka together with colleagues from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Andalusian School of Public Health, Kingston University London and the IMIM Barcelona, published a paper on Budge...

The current issue of the Health System Watch deals with waiting time for elective surgery in Austria. As always, full-text access is available online.

Jaroslava Hlouskova and Leopold Sögner published the paper GMM estimation of affine term structure models in the journal Econometrics and Statistics.

Benjamin Bittschi wrote an op-ed for the Austrian daily Der Standard, arguing on the inefficiency of the commuter allowance in terms of distribution policy (in German).

Last week members of the IHS research group Techno Science and Societal Transformation hosted the 3rd and final NewHoRRIzon Social Lab on the role of RRI (Responsible Research & Innovation) in funding...