Economists

in alphabetical order

Aleksandr Arsenev

Economist

Research Focus

EU, macroeconomic analysis, fiscal policy, business cycle, automatic stabilizers

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Austria, Vienna

Vasily Astrov

Economist

Research Focus

Russia, CIS countries; macroeconomic analysis; wages, energy and infrastructure

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Austria, Vienna

Alexandra Bykova

Deputy Head of Statistics Department and Economist

Specialisation

Coordination of statistics department’s activities for the membership products; Kazakhstan country monitoring; wiiw Monthly Database; CESEE Visual Data Explorer; statistical coverage of Kazakhstan and Russia; digitalisation and financial indicators

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Austria, Vienna

Chiara Castelli

Economist

Research Focus

Foreign direct investment, multinational firms, innovation and environmental policies

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Austria, Vienna

Selena Duraković

Research Associate

Research Focus

Bosnia and Herzegovina; monetary policy; international trade and finance; transition economies

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Austria, Vienna

Kristijan Fidanovski

Economist

Research Focus

Tobacco taxation; Western Balkans; macroeconomic analysis; labour markets; demographic change

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Austria, Vienna

Javier Flórez Mendoza

Economist

Research Focus

International trade, Environmental economics, Regional Trade Agreements and European Policy

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Austria, Vienna

Mahdi Ghodsi

Economist

Research Focus

Applied econometrics, macroeconomic modelling, data science, global markets, trade policy, trade regulations, financial and labour market analysis, migration policy, economics of sanctions, Iran's economy

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Austria, Vienna

Meryem Gökten

Economist

Research Focus

Turkey, macroeconomic analysis, fiscal policy, trade, productivity, applied econometrics

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Austria, Vienna

Simone Maria Grabner

Economist

Research Focus

Regional Development, Spatial Inequality, Structural Change and Innovation

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Austria, Vienna

Richard Grieveson

Deputy Director

Research Focus

Central and Eastern Europe macroeconomic analysis, policy analysis, European integration, EU enlargement, economic history, and political economy

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Austria, Vienna

Francesca Guadagno

Economist

Research Focus

Industrial policy, structural change, innovation and new technologies

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Austria, Vienna

Doris Hanzl-Weiss

Economist, Chairwoman of the Works Council

Research Focus

Slovakia; industrial structural change, sector analysis, automotive industry

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Austria, Vienna

Philipp Heimberger

Economist

Research Focus

Macroeconomic analysis; public sector economics; economic policy in the European context

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Austria, Vienna

Mario Holzner

Executive Director

Is Executive Director at wiiw. He is also coordinating economic policy development and communication with a focus on European economic policy.

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Austria, Vienna

Gabor Hunya

Senior Research Associate

Research Focus

Moldova, Romania; privatisation and foreign direct investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe

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Austria, Vienna

Branimir Jovanović

Economist

Research Focus

North Macedonia and Serbia; Inequality, poverty, fiscal policy, taxation, social policies, labour rights, financial crises

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Austria, Vienna

Biljana Jovanovikj

Economist

Research Focus

Macroeconomic analysis; monetary policy, macroeconomic modelling and forecasting, productivity

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Austria, Vienna

Niko Korpar

Research Associate

Research Focus

Slovenia; Ecological economics, international trade, European policy

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Austria, Vienna

Nóra Kungl

Economist

Research Focus

Health economics, Applied microeconomics, Tobacco taxation in Eastern Europe

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Austria, Vienna

Michael Landesmann

Senior Research Associate; Economist;
former 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

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Austria, Vienna

Sandra M. Leitner

Economist

Research Focus

Corporate behaviour; innovation and technological change; economic development and growth; capital markets; labour markets, mobility, and migration

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Austria, Vienna

Sebastian Leitner

Economist

Research Focus

Latvia, Lithuania; distribution and social policy; labour markets

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Austria, Vienna

Andreas Lichtenberger

Economist

Research Focus

Macroeconomic and fiscal policy analysis, ecological economics, inequality, and issues of economic development

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Austria, Vienna

Ambre Maucorps

Economist

Research Focus

Regional economics and EU regional policy; Rural development; European cross-border and transnational cooperation

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Austria, Vienna

Olga Pindyuk

Economist

Research Focus

Ukraine, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); International trade and FDI in Services; Macroeconomic analysis and forecast; Economies of Ukraine and CIS; Banking markets; CGE modelling

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Austria, Vienna

Leon Podkaminer

Senior Research Associate

Research Focus

Poland; economic policy; macroeconomic analysis; exchange rates; patterns of consumption, relative prices

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Austria, Vienna

Oliver Reiter

Economist

Research Focus

International trade; non-tariff measures in trade; input-output databases and analysis

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Austria, Vienna

Sandor Richter

Senior Research Associate

Research Focus

Hungary; EU budget; new EU Member States; EU enlargement, regional economic integration of the Visegrad countries; East-West economic integration

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Austria, Vienna

Roman Römisch

Economist

Research Focus

Regional economics and EU regional policy; national accounts and macroeconomic analysis

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Austria, Vienna

Alireza Sabouniha

Research Assistant

Research Focus

Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, International Economics, Data Science, and Machine Learning

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Austria, Vienna

Bernhard Schütz

Economist

Research Focus

Macroeconomic analysis, fiscal policy, stock-flow consistent agent-based modeling

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Austria, Vienna

Robert Stehrer

Scientific Director

Research Focus

International integration, trade, technology and labour markets, applied econometrics

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Austria, Vienna

Lea Steininger

Economist

Research Focus

Monetary economics, monetary theory, macro-finance, epistemology

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Austria, Vienna

Bernd Christoph Ströhm

Senior Research Associate

Research 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

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Austria, Vienna

Maryna Tverdostup

Economist

Research Focus

Estonia; Labour market, gender inequalities and migration; Applied micro-econometrics; Experimental economics; Credence goods markets

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Austria, Vienna

Zuzana Zavarská

Economist

Research Focus

Czechia, Visegrád economies, foreign direct investment, global value chains, economic development

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Austria, Vienna

Stella Sophie Zilian

Economist

Research Focus

Digitalisation and social inequality; digital skills; labour market; gender inequality

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Austria, Vienna

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