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The Department of Economics aims to provide excellence in research and teaching. The department's activities contribute significantly to solving some of today’s most important and pressing economic issues.

The Department of Economics is part of the Kurt W. Rothschild School of Economics and Statistics (RoSES).

Our website provides information about our recent publications, our weekly Economics Research Seminar, as well as current news and open positions

new working paper

The Napoleon complex revisited
(June 2024)

Mario Lackner
new working paper

Development and Sector Labor Income Shares
(May 2024)

Daniel Schäfer
new working paper

When women take over: Physician gender and health care provision
(April 2024)

Gerald. J. Pruckner, Flora Stiftinger, Katrin Zocher
new working paper

The COVID-19 pandemic and health care utilization: Evidence from Austrian register data
(April 2024)

Wolfgang Frimmel, Gerald J. Pruckner
new working paper

The Incidence of Workplace Pensions: Evidence from the UK’s Automatic Enrollment Mandate
(March 2024)

Rachel Scarfe, Daniel Schäfer, Tomasz Sulka
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More publications and working papers

Event 23.10.2024

Economics Research Seminar

Katrin Rabitsch

Event 16.10.2024

Economics Research Seminar

Harald Fadinger

Event 09.10.2024

Economics Research Seminar

Mirco Tonin (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

Mirco Tonin
Event 02.10.2024

Economics Research Seminar

Andrea Weber (CEU Budapest)

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