Research Associates
in alphabetical order
Amat Adarov
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Macroeconomic analysis; international trade and finance; economic integration; transition economies; financial markets; complex networks in trade and finance
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
Macroeconomic analysis; monetary policy; central banking issues
Rumen Dobrinsky
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Belarus, Bulgaria; processes of transformation, growth and convergence; European integration and related policies
Selena Duraković
Research AssociateResearch Focus
Bosnia and Herzegovina; monetary policy; international trade and finance; transition economies
Georg Fischer
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Employment and social policies at the European level
Neil Foster-McGregor
Research AssociateResearch Focus
Economic growth and development; international trade and globalisation; innovation and technology transfer; structural transformation and applied econometrics
Joseph F. Francois
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Trade in services; open economy competition policy and regulation of firm behaviour; financial market integration
Hubert Gabrisch
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
European politics (monetary and fiscal), economic development (East-Central Europe), financial economics, applied econometrics (time series and panel)
Vladimir Gligorov
Senior Research Associate (1945 - 2022)Research Focus
Western Balkan countries, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia; long-term growth in transition countries; macroeconomic analysis; financial markets
Elisabeth Hagen
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Industrial policy, transformation to sustainable industry and agriculture
Daniel C. L. Hardy
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Macro-financial risks and policies; European integration; sovereign debt; political economy
Eduard Hochreiter
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
European (Monetary) integration, monetary and exchange rate policy issues, transition economies
Gabor Hunya
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Moldova, Romania; privatisation and foreign direct investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe
Stefan Jestl
Research AssociateResearch Focus
Labour mobility, labour market and infrastructure, wealth and income distribution, regional economics
Niko Korpar
Research AssociateResearch Focus
Slovenia; Ecological economics, international trade, European policy
Philipp Lamprecht
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
WTO and Globalisation, EU Trade Policy and Competitiveness, Digital Economy, Geoeconomics and EU Neighbourhood
Hans Peter Lankes
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Climate finance, development economics and sustainable growth
Arkebe Oqubay
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Industrialisation and industrial policy; structural transformation and technological catch-up; sustainability and urban transformation, public policy and leadership; Africa and global transformation
Karl Pichelmann
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Globalisation and European economic and monetary integration; patterns of convergence and divergence; evolution of labour markets and social models in Europe
Leon Podkaminer
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Poland; economic policy; macroeconomic analysis; exchange rates; patterns of consumption, relative prices
Michael Reiterer
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
EU foreign policy, EU-Asia relations, focus on Japan and Korea, security policy and interregionalism, new forms of diplomacy, human rights
Sandor Richter
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Hungary; EU budget; new EU Member States; EU enlargement, regional economic integration of the Visegrad countries; East-West economic integration
Roman Stöllinger
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Foreign trade, global value chains, foreign direct investment, structural change, industrial policy and competitiveness
Bernd Christoph Ströhm
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Croatia and Western Balkan countries, macroeconomic analysis, industrial policy and competitiveness, demographic; labour market developments, fiscal policy, China's and Russia's geopolitical; geoeconomic influence on the Western Balkans, the Chinese 'Belt and Road Initiative' in Southeastern Europe, government stability; political risk in the CESEE region
Philipp Ther
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
history of transformations since the 1980s, Central and Eastern Europe’s social history of the 19th and 20th century
Waltraut Urban
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
The Chinese economy, China in the global economy, the Chinese ‚New Silk Road Initiative’, economic relations EU-China respectively Austria-China
Konstantin M. Wacker
Research AssociateResearch Focus
FDI, export quality, economic growth, applied econometrics