The 5th International Conference on Human Resource Management will take place at ISEG on the 27th and 28th February, 2025. It has recently been confirmed that the keynote speaker for the opening address will be Professor Jason Bennett Thatcher, from the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado-Boulder.
This edition of the meeting will also feature a collaboration with the Management Review QuarterlyJournal, which promotes research through the opportunity to be published in its Special Issue: Human Resource Management and Artificial Intelligence to elevate work.
A call for papers is made for researchers in the areas of Human Resources Management and related areas, as well as Masters and PhD students and professionals interested in these research topics. Contributions should be submitted by the deadline of the 17th November 17, 2024, via email to submissions@advance.iseg.ulisboa.pt.
Further information: https://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/advance/hrm_2025/
The next ISEG Research seminar will be attended by Derick Almeida, from Universidade de Coimbra, who will present a paper entitled 'Fertility choices, Demographics and Automation“.
The seminra will take place on the 2nd October, from 13.00 to 14.00, in Lecture Theatre 3 (Quelhas, 4th Floor).
Free admission.
Abstract:
In this paper we study a theoretical link between the effects of increased automation on labor markets, and the fertility decisions of a representative household that is replaced by robots in the production of tasks. We develop a framework in which children provide utility and impose an opportunity cost to the household due to lost labor income. We show that fertility rate changes are the result of an optimal response to wage variations after the economy is hit by a shock that increases the design quality of robots used in production. Using this model, we characterize an initial equilibrium and simulate the effect of a 10% increase in robot productivity on important endogenous variables, including wages, and find that, in the absence of fixed costs to raising children, the fertility rate increases by approximately 3.4%.
The 3rd ISEG Research seminar of the 2024-25 academic year will be attended by Tobias Kleinprofessor at Tilberg University, who will present a paper entitled "Learning from Online Ratings“.
The session takes place on September 25, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., in Amphitheater 3 (Quelhas Building, floor 4).
Free admission.
Abstract:
Online ratings play an important role in many markets. However, how fast they can reveal seller types remains unclear. To study this question, we propose a new model in which a buyer learns about the seller's type from previous ratings and her own experience and rates the seller if she learns enough. We derive two testable implications and verify them using administrative data from eBay. We also show that alternative explanations are unlikely to explain the observed patterns. After having validated the model in that way, we calibrate it to eBay data to quantify the speed of learning. We find that ratings can be very informative. After 25 transactions, the likelihood of correctly predicting the seller type is above 95 percent.
Next Tuesday, the 24th September, ISEG will host the seminar on 'Should we fear or welcome Gen AI in higher education?'. The objective of the event is to reflect on the challenges and opportunities that Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) brings to the education sector.
This seminar is organised by IPP - Institute of Public Policy, with the support of ISEG and Google, with Diário de Notícias as the media partner.
The opening addressses will be given by Professor João Duque, Dean of ISEG, and Prof. Ana Paiva, the Secretary of State for Science.
During the seminar, the report on 'Generative AI in Higher Educationwill be presented by professors Steffen Hoernig (Nova School of Business and Economics, IPP) and Paulo Trigo Pereira (ISEG).
The event will also feature a panel discussion entitled 'AI in Higher Education - Potential and Pitfalls, with interventions by Pedro Oliveira (Dean, Nova SBE), Joana Gonçalves Sá (SPAC-LIP), Helena Miranda (Postgraduate in Applied AI & Machine Learning, ISEG), and Mariana Barbosa (Academic Federation of Lisbon, ISCTE). The panel will debate the risks and advantages of adopting AI in teaching, addressing ethical and methodological issues that are crucial to the future of education.
Come and discover how this technology is changing education and its impact on students, faculty, and universities.
Free admission, subject to prior registration at www.bit.ly/AI_evento.
Further information HERE.
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The 2nd ISEG Research seminar of the 2024-25 Academic Year will count with the participation of Pedro Gomes, a professor at Birkbeck University of London, who will present a paper entitled 'Four-day week: lessons from a pilot-project in Portugal“.
The seminar will take place from 13.00 to 14.00 in Lecture Theatre 3 (Quelhas, 4th Floor).
Free admission.
Abstract:
I will present the results from a study of 41 companies that tested a 4 day week as a management practice in Portugal in 2023, describing the effects on firms and workers, and use them to draw conclusions for economists about the concrete mechanisms by which the reduction of working time can raise productivity in firms.
As part of the project to intensify the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into ISEG's teaching activities, a working group has been set up to ensure that SDG-promoting content is taught across the various courses. This group, together with the Observatory for Pedagogical Action and Innovation (OAIP), will carry out on September 12th at 12 noon in Auditorium 2 with the following program:
Free admission.
Inês Carvalho, from ISEG, will present the paper entitled "Advertising effectiveness of ads written by AI, human, and hybrid human-AI collaboration“.
The seminar will take place from 13.00 to 14.00 in Lecture Theatre 3 (Quelhas, 4th Floor).
Free admission.
Abstract:
We compare the effectiveness of human-generated, AI-generated (ChatGPT), and hybrid promotional texts using the AIEDA model incorporating anticipated emotions from the Model of Goal-Directed Behavior. We applied SEM-PLS and other inferential statistics to analyze whether 455 participants from the UK could differentiate between these texts and compare promotional effectiveness. Respondents were not able to distinguish between the texts. However, the human-generated text was consistently less preferred. Effectiveness perceptions declined as participants suspected AI authorship, regardless of the text's actual source. The AIEDA model incorporating positive and negative anticipated emotions proved to be effective in the three scenarios created.
The research seminars for the first semester of the 2024/25 Academic Year run from the 11th September to the 4th December, 2024, on Wednesdays from 13:00 to 14:00.
Faculty from ISEG and other national and international schools will participate in the sessions, when they will address topics related with Economics, Management, Finance, Social Sciences, and Mathematics.
Free admission.
Upcoming seminars:
The EAJ'24 Conference The (European Actuarial Journal Conference 2024) will be held at the ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management on the 9th to the 11th September.
This conference, which is organised jointly by ISEG and CEMAPRE - Centre for Applied Mathematics for Economic Forecasting and Decision Making, is a biennial meeting of great importance in the fields of Actuarial Science, Risk Management, Finance and Insurance, and Pensions research. EAJ is a scientific journal supported by 13 national actuarial associations and institutes in the European Union and Switzerland, in association with Springer Nature. Its objective is to bring together experts in various fields of insurance and actuarial science to establish contacts, share, discuss and collaborate.
The sessions will include presentations of academic papers, workshops, and lectures by renowned experts. Guest speakers include:
For further information and registration, visit the official event page at https://cemapre.iseg.ulisboa.pt/eajc2024/.
For the second year running, ISEG will host the semi-finals of the prestigious international competition Hult Prize, in progress between June 21st and 23rd.
The Hult Prize is the largest global social entrepreneurship competition, challenging thousands of university students every year to create innovative startups with the potential to transform the world.
This year, ISEG will have the privilege of hosting 56 startups, made up of 176 university students from 48 different nationalities. These teams will compete for one of the six places in the Hult Prize final, scheduled to take place in September in London, UK.