2024

Ahmed Abtew Asfaw 

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics: The case of Ethiopia

Doctoral Committee: Becker Joachim, Bendl Regine, Kleinert Jörn  

Marcel Barmeier

Unconventional monetary policy: Evaluating its impact on profitability, lending and risk-taking of banks.

Doctoral Committee: Rabitsch Katrin, Rumler Fabio, Schäfer Guido         

Michael Ertl       

Inheriting Inequality: An Examination of Wealth, Inheritance and Property Income

Doctoral Committee: Altzinger Wilfried, Heitzmann Karin, Milanovic Branko  

Oscar Fernandez Guerra     

Essays in Macroeconomics

Doctoral Committee: Crespo Cuaresma Jesus, Rabitsch Katrin, Feldkircher Martin

Katharina Filip

The Economic Foundation of (Crypto-) Currency Competition. A New Monetarist Model Approach             

Doctoral Committee: Schäfer Guido, Crespo Cuaresma Jesus, Rocheteau Guillaume

Melanie Gräser

Essays in Development Economics             

Doctoral Committee: Kubin Ingrid, Becker Joachim, Brummund Peter

Pia Heckl 

The impact of globalization on different dimensions of inequality

Doctoral Committee: Kubin Ingrid, Halla Martin, Rainer Helmuth

Julian Paul Werner Joseph             

Effects of Foreign Direct Investments in Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa             

Doctoral Committee: Tondl Gabriele, Nolte Kerstin, Oberhofer Harald

Nikolas Kuschnig        

Essays on Econometric Methods for Issues in Environmental Economics           

Doctoral Committee: Crespo Cuaresma Jesus, Graham Bryan, Mele Angelo

Atanas Pekanov          

How does household heterogeneity affect macroeconomic policies?   

Doctoral Committee: Crespo Cuaresma Jesus, Rabitsch Katrin, Kocharkov Georgi

Severin Augustinus Rapp  

New perspectives on wealth inequality - concepts, data and perceptions        

Doctoral Committee: Altzinger Wilfried, Crespo Cuaresma Jesus, Kasy Maximilian

Beatrix Rauch

Niedriglohnbeschäftigung, Bestandsaufnahme und politischer Diskurs         

Doctoral Committee: Grisold Andrea, Heitzmann Karin  

Dominik Schmied         

Potential Output and the Business Cycle: Alternative Approaches for Modelling Cyclical Economic Output             

Doctoral Committee: Crespo Cuaresma Jesus, Oberhofer Harald   

Anna-Magdalena Schwarz          

Essays on Inequality and Behavior         

Doctoral Committee: Sausgruber Rupert, Kartal Melis, Winter-Ebmer Rudolf

Anja Sebbesen      

Essays on the Diffusion of Ideas and Beliefs             

Doctoral Committee: Badinger Harald, Crespo Cuaresma Jesus     

Nhu Hieu Truong

Ownership Structure and Efficiency: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in Vietnam  

Doctoral Committee: Gstach Dieter, Pichler Eva, Sahoo Biresh K.

Elisabeth Wurm 

Essays in Labor Economics

Doctoral Committee: Weber Andrea, Arenas Arroyo Esther, Kartal Melis   

2023

Judith Derndorfer

Socio-economic implications of inequality

Supervisors: Wilfried Altzinger, Karin Heitzmann

Dmitry Erokhin

Navigating the tax treaty landscape

Supervisors: Marting Zagler, Alfons Weichenrieder, Caren Sureth

Judith

Martin Hafner-Guth

Forecasting and risk assessment for central banking and financial stability

Supervisors: Florian Huber, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma,

Martin Feldkircher

Tobias Kaloud

Three essays on the efficiency of regulated services of general interest

Supervisors: Klaus Gugler, Florian Szücs, Mario Liebensteiner,

Vanessa Sophie Lechinger

Essays on intra- and inter-household dimensions of gender-specific inequality

Supervisors: Wilfried Altzinger, Klaus Prettner, Miriam Rehm

Jonas Peisker

Essays on the contextual determinants of environmental concern in Europe

Supervisors: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Raya Muttarak, Klaus Prettner

Philipp Poyntner

Essays on monetary policy

Supervisors: Harald Badinger, Harald Oberhofer, Andrea Weber

Eva Six

Black box family: family environment and its distributional and intergenerational implications

Supervisors: Wilfried Altzinger, Anja Leist, Thomas Grandner

2022

Nikolaus Bayerl

Deliberation about international taxation issues

Supervisor : Dieter Gstach (2)

Martin Ertl

Macroeconomic topics in Central and Eastern Europe

Supervisor: Katrin Rabitsch-Schilcher (1) Klaus Prettner (2)

Tom Kisters

Behavioural aspects of tax evasion

Supervisor: Rupert Sausgruber (1)

Eric Schweinberger

Three essays on the effect of the Brexit Referendum’s uncertainty shock on the UK’s financial and macroeconomic indicators

Supervisor: Alfred Stiassny (1), Fritz Breuss (2)

Pranvera Shehaj

Deliberation about international taxation issues

Supervisor: Martin Zagler (1)

Stella Zilian

Technological change and inequality. A quantitative study of social inequality in Austria in times of digitalisation

Supervisor: Wilfried Altzinger (1)

Gregor Zens

Modeling Heterogeneity Using Bayesian Econometrics

Supervisor: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma (1)

2021

Maximilian Böck

The impact of expectations on macroeconomic instability

Supervisor: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

Katharina Fenz

Essays on empirical economics and demography

Supervisors: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Harald Oberhofer

Emanuel List

Dimensions of inequality: inequality analysis beyond survey data and monetary concepts

Supervisors: Wilfried Altzinger, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma 

Daniela Rroshi 

Essays on firm's pricing decisions under imperfect information

Supervisors: Christoph Weiss, Klaus Gugler

Nora Christine Amelie Schindler

Avoiding the Bertrand Paradox - Empirical Essays on Product Differentiation

Supervisor: Christoph Weiss

Katarina Valkova

Topics in Labour Economics
Supervisors: Thomas Grandner, Karl Aiginger

Gregor Zens

Modeling heterogeneity using Bayesian econometrics
Supervisor: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

2020

Simone Häckl 

Behavioral Motives to Work Hard: Three Essays Using Real-Effort Experiments

Supervisor: Rupert Sausgruber

Niko Hauzenberger 

Fast and Flexible Bayesian Inference in Time-Varying Parameter Models

Supervisor: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma 

Cornelius Hirsch 

Globalization and Its Impact on Agriculture and Rural Areas

Supervisors: Harald Oberhofer, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma 

Endale Kebede 

The Role of Education in Africa's Demographic Transition

Supervisor: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma 

Kunka Petkova 

Corporate and Withholding Tax Rates in an International Setting

Supervisor: Martin Zagler 

Stefan Schiman

Macroeconomic Determinants of Labor Market Outcomes – Three Empirical Investigations by Means of Vector Auto-regressive Models and Sign Restrictions
Supervisor: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

2019

Predrag Ćetković

Financialization of the banking sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia : explaining the relationship between unproductive lending, foreign exchange loans and capital flows with an endogenous money approach

Supervisors: Joachim Becker, Wilfried Altzinger

Celia Dorothee Leverkus

Cost efficiency in regulated industries : an empirical investigation of Swiss electricity utilities

Supervisor: Klaus Gugler

Julian Lohf

Die Innovationskraft der deutschen Montanindustrie : eine Analyse des regionalen Innovationssystems in den Gebietsstrukturen des Deutschen Reichs von 1928 bis 1941

Supervisors: Hansjörg Klausinger, Thomas Grandner

Johannes Pöschl

Let there be light! : Innovation from creation to diffusion

Supervisor: Klaus Gugler

Christoph Riedler

Risiko und Finanzierungsstruktur bei Internationalen Projektfinanzierungen

Supervisor: Christian Bellak

Richard Sellner

Essays in spatial interaction modelling

Supervisors: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Harald Oberhofer

Hendrik Theine

Economic inequality and redistribution policies - the conditioning power of the media

Supervisors: Andrea Grisold, Wilfried Altzinger

2018

Manuel Bachmann

Market Illiquidity and Credit Freezes : Amplification, Procyclical Leverage and Endogenous Funding Liquidity            

Supervisors: Guido Schäfer, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

Julia Bachtrögler

Essays on the Effectiveness of EU Cohesion Policy: The Role of Policy Implementation and Its Effects in Heterogeneous Regions          

Supervisors: Harald Badinger, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

Zsofia Döme     

The Impact of Banking Regulation and Monetary Policy on Financial Market Stability in Europe 

Supervisors: Guido Schäfer, Harald Oberhofer

Andreas Eder

Three Essays on the Efficiency, Productivity Growth, Scale and Diversification Economies of Austrian Biogas Plants  

Supervisors: Mikulas Luptacik, Klaus Gugler

Philipp Heimberger

Fiscal Multipliers, Unemployment and Debt: Essays on the Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy Coordination in Europe

Supervisors: Wilfried Altzinger, Hansjörg Klausinger

Bernd Jost

Three Essays on Horizontal Product Differentiation and Price Dispersion

Supervisors: Christoph Weiss, Klaus Gugler

Stefan Kranzinger

Essays on Income Inequality: An Analysis of the Sources of Inequality, the Middle Class and Poverty Transition in Europe

Supervisor: Wilfried Altzinger

Philipp Novak

Expectations, Volatility and Growth: A Schumpeterian Business Cycle Theory     

Supervisors: Ingrid Kubin, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

Bernhard Tröster

Commodity Price Dynamics, Financialization and Development: Assessing the Impacts on Commodity-dependent Economies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Supervisor: Joachim Becker

Thomas Zörner

Nonlinear Dynamics in Credit Markets: Endogenous Regime Switching, Financial Frictions, and Market Sentiments

Supervisors: Ingrid Kubin, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

2017

Roman Harrer

Das System der ergänzenden und alternativen Strategien zur kommerziellen Verwertung von Rechten an geistigem Eigentum mit dem Schwerpunkt auf den Transfer von geistigem Eigentum in innovativen Industrien

Supervisor: Hansjörg Klausinger

Ann Hartell

The Link Between Housing Affordability and Transport Costs: Implications for Transport Agencies in an Environment of Accountability

Supervisor: Dieter Gstach

Adhurim Haxhimusa

Regulation of Network Industries

Supervisor: Klaus Gugler

Martin Hofmann

Die Form der Ökonomisierung

Supervisor: Andrea Grisold

Michaela Klauninger

Prävention in Entwicklungsländern. Implementierung präventiver Interventionen in das Gesundheitssystem der Vereinigten Republik Tansania.

Supervisor: Hansjörg Klausinger

Ingo Mostecky

Julius Tandler und die Fürsorgepolitik im "Roten Wien" - sozioökonomische Grundlegungen, gesellschaftstheoretische Determinanten und institutionelle Manifestationen

Supervisor: Leonhard Bauer

Alexis Mundt

Empirical Essays on Austrian Housing Policy Evaluation

Supervisor: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

Michal Pichna

Wechselkursanalyse - Reaktion der Wechselkurse auf die veröffentlichten Daten

Supervisor: Gabriele Tondl

Doris Prammer

Three essays on economic issues in taxation

Supervisor: Martin Zagler, Rupert Sausgruber

Friedrich Schiller

Lohnpolitik in Österreich. Zur Relevanz der produktivitätsorientierten Lohnpolitik.

Supervisor: Wilfried Altzinger

Nicole Isabella Stanga

Das Zusammenwirken von Ökonomie und Institutionen für Wohlfahrtsgewinne: Paneluntersuchungen von zwei Phenomänen mit hoher Politikrelevanz

Supervisor: Karl Aiginger, Gabriele Tondl

Iffat Batool Naqvi Syed

From SUPPLIERS to NODES: Do Regional and National Innovation Systems Support an Upgradation of the Developing Countries Industrial Clusters?

Supervisor: Joachim Becker

2016

Nikolaus Kowall

Preise, nichtpreisliche Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und ausländische Nachfrage im Außenhandel

Supervisor: Karl Aiginger

Petra Sauer

Macro-economic Consequences of Educational Inequality

Supervisor: Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Martin Zagler

Alexandra Patloch

Die Determinanten der Vorstandsvergütung unter spezieller Berücksichtigung der steuerlichen Abzugsbeschränkung von Gehältern

Supervisor: Rupert Sausgruber

Cong Cong Yang

Performance Measurement of Freight Villages with Data Envelopment Analysis

Supervisor: Mikulas Luptacik

Fabian Braesemann

Boundaries, Bonds and Bridges A data-driven validation of concepts relevant for behavioral economics

Supervisor: Hanjörg Klausinger

2015

Elisabeth Beckmann

Microeconometric Analyses of Households' Financial Decisions in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Supervisor: Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Harald Badinger

Daniel Bekesi

Essays on food choices: Analysing heterogeneous individual behaviour

Supervisor: Christoph Weiss, Jens-Peter Loy

Julia Maria Braun

On the Determinants and Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties

Supervisor: Martin Zagler, Michael Lang

Gerhard Fenz

Business Cycle Fluctuations in Austria

Supervisor: Martin Zagler, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

Rudolf Gradnitzer

Wien, Schwedenplatz 1945 - 2015: Ideen - Architektur - Konflikte

Supervisor: Gerhard Senft, Joachim Becker

Stefan Humer

Intergenerational Aspects of Inequality

Supervisor: Wilfried Altzinger, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

Agnes Kügler

Three Essays on Vertical and Horizontal Product Differentiation

Supervisor: Christoph Weiss, Klaus Gugler

Soojin Lee

Transparency of Fair Value Accounting and Tax

The Relevance of Tax Information in Other Comprehensive Income

News Media Coverage on Corporate Tax Avoidance and Corporate Tax Reporting

Supervisor: Eva Eberhartinger, Rupert Sausgruber

Jan Loeprick

Profit shifting: drivers of transfer (mis)pricing and the potential of countermeasures

Indirect Access to Intellectual Property Regimes - Effects on Austrian and German Affiliates

Small Business Tax Policy, Informality, and Tax Evasion - Evidence from Georgia

Supervisor: Martin Zagler

Mathias Moser

Makroökonomische Anwendungen von Bayesian Model Averaging

Supervisor: Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Gernot Doppelhofer

Philipp Piribauer

Model Uncertainty in Spatial Growth Regressions

Supervisor: Manfred M. Fischer, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

Tanja Yvonne Pöll

Einflussfaktoren in Argentinien und Brasilien auf deren Handelspolitik

Supervisor: Joachim Becker, Reinhard Pirker

Catherine Prettner

Essays in Applied Macroeconometrics

Supervisor: Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

Elisabeth Ranzenhofer

Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Instrument der Privaten Entwicklungsfinanzierung

Supervisor: Joachim Becker

Matthias Schnetzer

Dimensionen ökonomischer Ungleichheit in Österreich - Beiträge zur Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen in einem korporatistisch-konservativen Wohlfahrtsregime

Supervisor: Wilfried Altzinger, Dieter Gstach

Erich Strießnig

Three Effects of Education on Well-Being: Happier Lives, Reduced Societal Aging, Reduced Vulnerability

Supervisor: Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

Stefan Trappl

Vergleich der Great Depression und der Great Recession hinsichtlich Einkommensverteilung, Geldpolitik und Finanzmarktentwicklungen

Supervisor: Karl Aiginger

Biliana Antonova Yontcheva

Essays on competition in a spatial context

Supervisor: Christoph Weiss, Klaus Gugler