Klaus Prettner
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Professor of Macroeconomics and Digitalization
phone: +43 31336 6586
e-mail: klaus.prettner@wu.ac.at
office: D4.2.102
For administrative matters please contact: vw3@wu.ac.at
Publications | Research | Teaching |
For details, please see my CV.
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Department of Economics
Building D4, 2nd floor
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna
Austria
Teaching
Together with David E. Bloom, I have authored the textbook "Automation and Its Macroeconomic Consequences: Theory, Evidence, and Social Impacts" [link]. Students at WU can access the chapters via a campus license here.
Some of my lecturecasts on macroeconomic topics are available here and via the following links:
Selected Publications
Bloom, D.E., Kuhn, M., Prettner, K. (2024). Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences. Annual Review of Economics 16, 159-184. [link]
Bloom, D.E., Canning, D., Kotschy, R., Prettner, K., Schünemann, J. (2024). Health and economic growth: Reconciling the micro and macro evidence. World Development 178, 106575. [link]
Abeliansky, A., Beulmann, M., Prettner, K. (2024). Are they coming for us? Industrial robots and the mental health of workers. Research Policy 53, 104956. [link]
Abeliansky, A., Prettner, K. (2023). Automation and population growth: Theory and cross-country evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 208, 345-358. [link]
Chen, S., Kuhn, M., Prettner, K., Yu, F., Yang, T., Bärnighausen, T., Bloom, D.E., Wang, C. (2023). The global economic burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for 204 countries and territories in 2020–50: a health-augmented macroeconomic modelling study. The Lancet Global Health 11, e1183-e1193. [link]
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, A., Prettner, K., Tscheuschner, P. (2023). The Scientific Revolution and its implications for long-run economic development. World Development 168, 106262. [link]
Zhang, J., Prettner, K., Chen, S., Bloom, D.E. (2023). Beyond GDP: Using healthy lifetime income to trace well-being over time with estimates for 193 countries. Social Science & Medicine 320, 115674. [link]
Bloom, D.E., Kuhn, M., Prettner, K. (2022). Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses. Journal of Economic Literature 60 85-131. [link] [WP]
Krenz, A., Prettner, K., Strulik, H. (2021). Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers. European Economic Review 116, 103744. [link] [WP]
Prettner, K., Strulik, H. (2020). Innovation, Automation, and Inequality: Policy Challenges in the Race Against the Machine. Journal of Monetary Economics 116, 249-265. [Open Access]
Bloom, D.E., Kuhn, M., Prettner, K. (2020). The contribution of female health to economic development. The Economic Journal 130. 1650-1677. [Open Acess]
Hof, F. X., Prettner, K. (2019). The quest for status and R&D-based growth. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 162, 290-307. [link] [WP]
Chen, S., Kuhn, M., Prettner, K., Bloom, D.E. (2019). Noncommunicable diseases attributable to tobacco use in China: macroeconomic burden and tobacco control policies. Health Affairs 38, 1832-1839. [link]
Fan V.Y., Bloom, D.E., Ogbuoji, O., Prettner, K., Yamey, G. (2018). Valuing health as development: going beyond gross domestic product. The BMJ 363:k4371. [Open Access]
Prettner, K., Werner, K. (2016). Why it pays off to pay us well: The impact of basic research on economic growth and welfare. Research Policy 45, 1075-1090. [link] [WP]
Kuhn, M., Prettner, K. (2016). Growth and welfare effects of health care in knowledge-based economies. Journal of Health Economics 46, 100-119. [link] [WP]
Prettner, K., Canning, D. (2014). Increasing life expectancy and optimal retirement in general equilibrium. Economic Theory 56, 191-217. [link] [WP]
Strulik, H., Prettner, K., Prskawetz, A. (2013). The Past and Future of Knowledge-based Growth. Journal of Economic Growth 18, 411-437. [link] [WP]
Grafeneder-Weissteiner, T., Prettner, K. (2013). Agglomeration and Demographic Change. Journal of Urban Economics 74, 1-11. [link] [WP]