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Karl Aiginger

Prof. Aiginger

 

Honorary Professor at the Department of Economics and Head of Policy Crossover Center (PCC): Vienna-Europe

phone:     +43 1 31336 6051

e-mail:     karl.aiginger@wu.ac.at

office:     D4.1.161

consultation hours: by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

  • Born 23 October 1948 in Vienna

  • University of Vienna: Economics (1966 - 1970)

  • Dissertation: Entrepreneurship in Investment Decisions (1974)

  • Purdue University, Indiana, USA (1978)

  • Habilitation: Production Theory under Uncertainty (1984)

  • Honorary Professor University of Linz

Career

  • Economic Researcher WIFO (1970 - 2016)

  • Editor: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade (with Andre Sapir)

  • Visiting Professor at Stanford University, CA, USA (1982)

  • Deputy Director WIFO (1984 - 1987, 1996 - 1998, 2002 - 2005)

  • Visiting Professor at MIT, Boston, Mass., USA (1991), UCLA, Cal., USA (1997)

  • Supervisory Board of ÖIAG (1993 - 2000)

  • Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (Teaching and Research, 2002)

Research Interests

  • Competitiveness of Companies, Countries and Regions

  • Industrial Economics and Industrial Policy

  • Economic Strategy and Economic Policy

Publications

Details about all publications are available on the WIFO homepage.