Economists
in alphabetical order
Amat Adarov
EconomistResearch Focus
Macroeconomic analysis; international trade and finance; economic integration; transition economies; financial markets; complex networks in trade and finance
Vasily Astrov
EconomistResearch Focus
Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, CIS countries; macroeconomic analysis; financial markets; energy issues
Kurt Bayer
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Crisis prevention and resolution; industrial and innovation policies; anti-corruption and transparency and EU economic policy
Serkan Çiçek
Research AssociateResearch Focus
Turkey; macroeconomic analysis; monetary policy; central banking issues
Rumen Dobrinsky
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Bulgaria, Belarus; processes of transformation, growth and convergence; European integration and related policies
Neil Foster-McGregor
Research AssociateResearch Focus
Economic growth and development; international trade and globalisation; innovation and technology transfer; intellectual property rights; applied econometrics
Joseph F. Francois
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Trade in services; open economy competition policy and regulation of firm behaviour; financial market integration
Mahdi Ghodsi
EconomistResearch Focus
International trade, trade policy, economic integration and regional industrial economics
Richard Grieveson
EconomistResearch Focus
CESEE country analysis and economic forecasting; Turkey; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Kosovo; economic history; political economy; transition; financial markets
Vladimir Gligorov
EconomistResearch Focus
Balkan countries, in particular Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia; long-term growth in transition countries; macroeconomic analysis; financial markets
Peter Havlik
EconomistResearch Focus
Russia, EU-Russia relations, intra-CIS relations; European integration; foreign trade, exchange rate policies, competitiveness; statistics and databases
Philipp Heimberger
EconomistResearch Focus
Macroeconomic analysis; public sector economics; economic policy in the European context
Eduard Hochreiter
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
European (Monetary) integration, monetary and exchange rate policy issues, transition economies
Mario Holzner
Deputy DirectorResearch Focus
Southeast Europe; income distribution and inequality; foreign trade; macroeconomic analysis; financial markets; webmaster of the Balkan Observatory website
Gabor Hunya
EconomistResearch Focus
Romania, Bulgaria; privatisation and foreign direct investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe
Stefan Jestl
EconomistResearch Focus
Labour mobility, labour market and infrastructure, wealth and income distribution
Michael Landesmann
Senior Research Associate; Scientific Director (1996-2016)Research Focus
East-West economic integration, structural change, economic growth, general topics in international economic relations; globalisation and labour markets, migration
Kazimierz Laski
Former Director of Research (1921 - 2015)Research Focus
Poland; macroeconomic problems of transition, particularly the theory of transformation and development strategy
Sandra M. Leitner
EconomistResearch Focus
Corporate behaviour; innovation and technological change; economic development and growth; labour and capital markets
Sebastian Leitner
EconomistResearch Focus
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; distribution and social policy; labour markets
Olga Pindyuk
EconomistResearch Focus
International trade; Economies of the CIS and CESEE; Financial markets; Macroeconomic analysis and forecast; CGE modelling; Kazakhstan
Leon Podkaminer
EconomistResearch Focus
Poland, Czech Republic; economic policy; macroeconomic analysis; exchange rates; patterns of consumption, relative prices
Oliver Reiter
Research AssistantResearch Focus
International trade, input-output databases and analysis
Armon Rezai
Research AssociateResearch Focus
Macroeconomic analysis, economic policy, political economy, economic growth, distribution of income and wealth
Sandor Richter
EconomistResearch Focus
Hungary; EU budget; new EU Member States; EU enlargement, regional economic integration of the Visegrad countries; East-West economic integration
Roman Römisch
EconomistResearch Focus
Regional economics and EU regional policy; national accounts and macroeconomic analysis
Robert Stehrer
Scientific DirectorResearch Focus
International integration, trade, technology and labour markets, applied econometrics
Roman Stöllinger
EconomistResearch Focus
Foreign trade, global value chains, foreign direct investment, structural change, industrial policy and competitiveness
Hermine Vidovic
EconomistResearch Focus
Croatia, Slovenia; labour markets, social policy and migration
