Economists
in alphabetical order
Aleksandr Arsenev
EconomistResearch Focus
EU, macroeconomic analysis, fiscal policy, business cycle, automatic stabilizers
Vasily Astrov
EconomistResearch Focus
Russia, CIS countries; macroeconomic analysis; wages, energy and infrastructure
Alexandra Bykova
Deputy Head of Statistics Department and EconomistSpecialisation
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
Chiara Castelli
EconomistResearch Focus
Foreign direct investment, multinational firms, innovation and environmental policies
Selena Duraković
Research AssociateResearch Focus
Bosnia and Herzegovina; monetary policy; international trade and finance; transition economies
Kristijan Fidanovski
EconomistResearch Focus
Tobacco taxation; Western Balkans; macroeconomic analysis; labour markets; demographic change
Javier Flórez Mendoza
EconomistResearch Focus
International trade, Environmental economics, Regional Trade Agreements and European Policy
Mahdi Ghodsi
EconomistResearch 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
Meryem Gökten
EconomistResearch Focus
Turkey, macroeconomic analysis, fiscal policy, trade, productivity, applied econometrics
Simone Maria Grabner
EconomistResearch Focus
Regional Development, Spatial Inequality, Structural Change and Innovation
Richard Grieveson
Deputy DirectorResearch Focus
Central and Eastern Europe macroeconomic analysis, policy analysis, European integration, EU enlargement, economic history, and political economy
Francesca Guadagno
EconomistResearch Focus
Industrial policy, structural change, innovation and new technologies
Doris Hanzl-Weiss
Economist, Chairwoman of the Works CouncilResearch Focus
Slovakia; industrial structural change, sector analysis, automotive industry
Philipp Heimberger
EconomistResearch Focus
Macroeconomic analysis; public sector economics; economic policy in the European context
Mario Holzner
Executive DirectorIs Executive Director at wiiw. He is also coordinating economic policy development and communication with a focus on European economic policy.
Gabor Hunya
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Moldova, Romania; privatisation and foreign direct investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe
Branimir Jovanović
EconomistResearch Focus
North Macedonia and Serbia; Inequality, poverty, fiscal policy, taxation, social policies, labour rights, financial crises
Biljana Jovanovikj
EconomistResearch Focus
Macroeconomic analysis; monetary policy, macroeconomic modelling and forecasting, productivity
Niko Korpar
Research AssociateResearch Focus
Slovenia; Ecological economics, international trade, European policy
Nóra Kungl
EconomistResearch Focus
Health economics, Applied microeconomics, Tobacco taxation in Eastern Europe
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
Sandra M. Leitner
EconomistResearch Focus
Corporate behaviour; innovation and technological change; economic development and growth; capital markets; labour markets, mobility, and migration
Sebastian Leitner
EconomistResearch Focus
Latvia, Lithuania; distribution and social policy; labour markets
Andreas Lichtenberger
EconomistResearch Focus
Macroeconomic and fiscal policy analysis, ecological economics, inequality, and issues of economic development
Ambre Maucorps
EconomistResearch Focus
Regional economics and EU regional policy; Rural development; European cross-border and transnational cooperation
Olga Pindyuk
EconomistResearch 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
Leon Podkaminer
Senior Research AssociateResearch Focus
Poland; economic policy; macroeconomic analysis; exchange rates; patterns of consumption, relative prices
Oliver Reiter
EconomistResearch Focus
International trade; non-tariff measures in trade; input-output databases and analysis
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 Römisch
EconomistResearch Focus
Regional economics and EU regional policy; national accounts and macroeconomic analysis
Alireza Sabouniha
Research AssistantResearch Focus
Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, International Economics, Data Science, and Machine Learning
Bernhard Schütz
EconomistResearch Focus
Macroeconomic analysis, fiscal policy, stock-flow consistent agent-based modeling
Robert Stehrer
Scientific DirectorResearch Focus
International integration, trade, technology and labour markets, applied econometrics
Lea Steininger
EconomistResearch Focus
Monetary economics, monetary theory, macro-finance, epistemology
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
Maryna Tverdostup
EconomistResearch Focus
Estonia; Labour market, gender inequalities and migration; Applied micro-econometrics; Experimental economics; Credence goods markets
Zuzana Zavarská
EconomistResearch Focus
Czechia, Visegrád economies, foreign direct investment, global value chains, economic development
Stella Sophie Zilian
EconomistResearch Focus
Digitalisation and social inequality; digital skills; labour market; gender inequality