Cara Dabrowski

Economist

email: dabrowski@wiiw.ac.at
telephone: (+43-1) 5336610-33

Cara Dabrowski is Economist at wiiw. Her research focuses on macroeconomic analysis, fiscal policy, public finance and distribution. In prior work, she has also worked on financialization and inflation. She holds a master’s degree in Economic Analysis and Policy from Sorbonne Université, l’Université Paris Cité and l’Université de technologie de Compiègne, a master’s degree in International Economics from the Berlin School of Economics and Law and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Austria, Vienna

External Publications

Articles in refereed journals
  • 'A Kaleckian approach to financialization and distribution: Austria and Finland in comparison' (with Sonia Kuhls), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - WuG, 51 (1), April 2025, pp. 79-112
Shorter papers and comments
  • 'Die positiven Effekte von öffentlichen Investitionen' (with Philipp Heimberger), Blog Arbeit und Wirtschaft, 7 November 2025
  • 'Europa braucht mehr Investitionen, um seine Zukunft zu sichern' (with Philipp Heimberger), Surplus-Magazin, 6 November 2025
  • 'Europe Needs A Public Investment Revolution To Secure Its Economic Future' (with Philipp Heimberger), Social Europe, 22 October 2025
  • 'Vermögen in Wien. Ungleichheit und Öffentliches Eigentum' (with Robert Lasser, Vanessa Lechinger and Severin Rapp), WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. INEQ Research Notes, Vol. 2021, No. 04, 2021
Other working papers and discussion series
  • 'Making fiscal space policy-responsive: Reform proposal for potential output estimation in the DSA' (with Cyprien Batut, Meryem Gökten, Saskia Gottschalk, Philipp Heimberger, Lauri Holappa, Otto Kyyrönen, Florian Schuster-Johnson, Bernhard Schütz, Ludovic Suttor-Sorel, Sven von Wangenheim, Lennard Welslau, Francesco Zezza and Vinzenz Ziesemer), European Macro Policy Network, Policy Brief, November 2025
  • 'Endogenous money and inflation: an introductory post-Keynesian/Kaleckian conflict inflation model' (with Eckhard Hein), Post Keynesian Economic Society, Working Paper Series, No. 2522, 2025
  • 'A Kaleckian approach to the financialization– distribution–inflation nexus: Germany and Austria in comparative perspective', Institute for International Political Economy Berlin - IPE, Working Paper, No. 250, 2025

wiiw Publications

wiiw Policy Notes and Reports
  • 'Achieving geoeconomic goals by boosting the economy without raising the public debt ratio? New evidence on the effects of public investment in the European Union' (with Philipp Heimberger), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 99, Vienna, October 2025

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