People
Academic Faculty
Abeliansky Ana Lucia, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
Macroeconomics
Technological Change
Demography Economic Growth
Arenas Arroyo Esther, Associate Professor
labour economics
migration
applied microeconometrics
Asai Kentaro, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
Labor Economics
Applied Microeconometrics
Economic History
Asmat Roberto, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
Labour Economics
Economics of Education
Gender
Badinger Harald, Professor
Applied Econometrics
International Macroeconomics
Foreign Economics
European Integration
Becker Joachim, Associate Professor
Development Economics
Regulation Theory
State Theory
Regional Integration and Disintegration
Turkey, Mercosur, Eastern and Southern Europe
Bellak Christian, Associate Professor
Economics of Bilateral and Multilateral Agreements
Determinants and Effects of Foreign Direct Investment
Policy Evaluation
Meta-Analysis
Berger Ulrich, Professor
Game Theory (non-cooperative, evolutionary, behavioral and experimental)
Braccioli Federica, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
Political Economy
Labour Economics
Bremberger Francisca, Senior Lecturer (tenured)
Energy Markets
Corporate Governance
Regulatory Economics
Cerruti Davide, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Environmental and Energy Economics
Transport Economics
Public Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Crespo Cuaresma Jesus, Professor
Macroeconomics
Applied Econometrics
Felbermayr Gabriel, Professor
Theory and Politics of International Trade
Climate and International Trade
Labor Markets in Open Economies
International Migration
European Integration
Fellner-Röhling Gerlinde, Professor
Microeconomics
Digitalization
Behavioral Economics
Gromadzki Jan, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
Labor Economics
Public Economics
Political Economy
Gugler Klaus, Professor
Regulatory Economics
Mergers
Competition Economics
Energy and Environmental Economics
Hajdu Gergely, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
Behavioral Economics
Experimental Economics
Decision Making
Halla Martin, Professor
Applied Microeconometrics in Family, Labor and Health
Hammerschmidt Anna, Senior Lecturer (tenured)
Industrial Economics
Knowledge Spillovers
Oligopoly Theory
Endogenous Growth Theory
Heß Simon, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Social and economic networks
Casual inference
Evaluation of development policy
Kartal Melis, Associate Professor
Political Economy
Behavioral Economics
Experimental Economics
Kostal Thomas, Assistant Professor
Public Sector Economics
Fiscal Policy
Public Finance
Levkun Aleksandr, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
Microeconomic Theory
Information Economics
Political Economy
Louis-Sidois Charles, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Political Economy
Public Economics
Microeconomics
Media Economics
Lu Tingmingke, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
Industrial Organization
Urban Economics
Environmental Economics
Malik Shahroo, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
International Economics
Macroeconomics
Development Economics
Oberhofer Harald, Professor
Applied Econometrics
Industrial Economics
International Economic Relations
Political Economy
Pfarrhofer Michael, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Bayesian Econometrics
(Nonlinear) Times Series Analysis
Forecasting
Empirical Macroeconomics
Business Cycles
Prettner Klaus, Professor
Automation and Digitalization
Macroeconomics
Demographic Economics
Health Economics
Rabitsch Katrin, Associate Professor
International Macroeconomics
(Monetary) Foreign Trade
Quantitative Macroeconomics
Business Cycles
Monetary Theory and Policy
Rroshi Daniela, Assistant Professor (postdoc)
Industrial Organization
Applied Econometrics
Sausgruber Rupert, Professor
Public Economics
Behavioral Economics
Schäfer Guido, Associate Professor
Monetary Economics
Financial Regulation
Law and Economics
Economics of Digital Change
Money, Credit, Finance
Schmidpeter Bernhard, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Applied Econometrics
Labor Economics
Family Economics
Siuda Fabian, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Demographic Economics
Labor Economics
Long Run Growth
Szücs Florian, Associate Professor
Empirical Industrial Organization
Policy Evaluation
Applied Microeconomics
Law & Economics
Tondl Gabriele, Associate Professor
Foreign Trade and Direct Investment
European Integration
Regional Growth and Convergence
Applied Econometrics
Weiss Christoph, Professor
Industrial Organization
Economic Policy
Food and Agricultural Economics
Zagler Martin, Associate Professor
Macroeconomics
Economic Growth
Public Economics
International Taxation
PhD Students
Industrial Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Information Economics
Empirical Industrial Organization (Firm Competition, Competition Policy & Market Regulation, Digitization and Online Markets)
Applied Microeconomics
Game Theory
Energy and Environmental Economics
Industrial Organization
Applied Econometrics
Macroeconomics
Econometrics
Monetary Economics
International Economics
Behavioral Economics
Economics of Inequality
Public Economics
Environmental Economics
Development Economics
Applied Econometrics
Applied Econometrics
Health Economics
Labor Economics
Family Economics
Development Economics
Microeconomics
Behavioral Economics
Experimental Economics
Applied Econometrics
Public Economics
Economic Policy
Applied Econometrics
(Quantitative & Empirical) Macroeconomics
Econometrics
Macroeconomic Risk
Computational Macroeconomics
Financial Economics
Environmental Economics
Applied Econometrics
Bayesian Econometrics
Environmental Economics
Applied Econometrics
Macroeconomics
International Economics
Economics of Distribution
Empirical Industrial Organization
Regulatory Economics
Microeconomics
Energy Markets
Environmental Economics
Applied Econometrics
Industrial Economics
Monetary economics
Macro-Finance
Monetary theory
Applied Microeconomics
Media Economics
Crime Economics
Applied Econometrics
Macroeconomics
Computational Economics
Bayesian Macroeconometrics
Development Economics
Macroprudential Policy
Spatial Economics
Bayesian Statistics
Internationale Trade
International Finance
Macroeconomics
Empirical Industrial Organization
Environmental Economics
Structural Econometrics
Industrial Organization
Competition Economics
Applied Econometrics
Microeconometrics
Visiting and Associated Faculty
Daniel Hardy, Senior Research Associate, WIIW (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies), Austria
Alejandro Morales Kirioukhina, PhD Student, University of Huelva, Spain
Pedro Martins, Visiting Professor, Nova University, Portugal
Konstantin Wacker, Gastprofessor, Universität Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business, Niederland
Dora Walter, PhD Student, University of Zagreb, Department of Economic Theory, Croatia
Rotem Zehlinger, Research Scholar, iiasa.ac.at, Austria
Externally Funded Researchers
Administrative Staff Members
Teaching Administration
Coordination Bachelor's Programs BaWiSo & BBE Specializations
Mailänder Regina – contact: regina.mailaender@wu.ac.at, Tel: +43-1-31336-6706Coordination Master's Program Economics
Straka Heidemarie – contact: heidemarie.straka@wu.ac.at, Tel. +43-1-31336-5703Coordination PhD Program in Economics
Kreitz Elena – contact: elena.kreitz@wu.ac.at, Tel.: +43-1-31336-5998
Honorary Doctorates
James J. Heckman, Honorary Doctor at the Department
University of Chicago, CV
Prof. Dr. Kurt W. Rothschild, Honorary Doctor at the Department of Economics
Austrian Economist, CV
Prof. Dr. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Honorary Doctor at the Department of Economics
Columbia University, CV
Honorary Professors
Prof. Karl Aiginger, Honorary Professor at the Department of Economics
Head of Policy Crossover Center (PCC): Vienna-Europe
Prof. Aurel Schubert, Honorary Professor at the Department of Economics
Prof. Wilfried Stadler, Honorary Professor at the Department of Economics
Former Professors of the department
Volkswirtschaft