CORA - Conference on Robots and Automation
The fourth conference on the economic impact of robots and automation will take place on September 23th and 24th 2025, at WU University, Vienna, Austria, in cooperation with the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). This conference aims to establish a platform for all economists working in the rapidly growing fields of robots, automation, and artificial intelligence. We also wish to provide a forum for discussion between data users and the main data provider in this field.
Researchers from all fields of economics are invited to present new research results and discuss possible directions for future research activities. We welcome the submission of papers with an empirical, theoretical, and/or policy orientation focusing on micro- or macroeconomic aspects of robots, automation, and artificial intelligence. We also encourage PhD students with work-in-progress to submit proposals for a poster session.
Past Keynote Speakers: Philippe Aghion (INSEAD Paris), Anna Salomons (Utrecht University), and Guy Michaels (LSE).
Members of the Selection Committee are Ana Abeliansky (WU and OeNB, Vienna), Katja Mann (Copenhagen Business School), Christopher Müller (IFR, Frankfurt), Klaus Prettner (WU Vienna), Simone Vannuccini (University Côte d'Azur), and Anna Salomons (Tilburg University and Utrecht University School of Economics).
Conference organization: Anne Jurkat, International Federation of Robotics, Frankfurt (aj[at]ifr.org) and Rainer Klump, Department of Economic Policy and Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Economics and Business, Goethe University Frankfurt (klump[at]wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de), and Klaus Prettner (klaus-prettner[at]wu.ac.at).
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