Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz
Research Scholar
Economic Frontiers Program
Research Scholar
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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Biography
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz holds a doctorate in mathematical economics from the Vienna University of Technology, as well as a second doctorate (Habilitation) in population economics and applied econometrics from the same University. She is professor at the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics at TU Wien, deputy director at the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and one of the four directors of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna). She is working in the field of the economics of population and individual ageing, long run economic growth, agent based models and environmental economics. She has published numerous articles in refereed scientific journals and edited special issues of economic and demographic journals.Dr. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz joined the World Population (POP) Program in July 2013, to work on models of the interrelationship between population, the economy and environment. Since 2021 she continues her work in the Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW) Research Group, in the IIASA Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program.
Last update: 29 MAR 2021
Publications
Freiberger, M., Hoffmann, R., & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2024). Should I stay or should I go: Modelling disaster risk behaviour using a dynamic household level approach. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-24-010
Grass, D., Wrzaczek, S., Caulkins, J.P., Feichtinger, G., Hartl, R.F., Kort, P.M., Kuhn, M., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Sanchez-Romero, M., & Seidl, A. (2024). Riding the waves from epidemic to endemic: Viral mutations, immunological change and policy responses. Theoretical Population Biology 156 46-65. 10.1016/j.tpb.2024.02.002.
Freiberger, M., Kuhn, M., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Sanchez-Romero, M., & Wrzaczek, S. (2024). Optimization in age-structured dynamic economic models. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-24-004
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Sobotka, T., & Zeman, K. (2024). Demographische Folgen der COVID-19- Pandemie. In: Die COVID-19-Pandemie und das Impfwesen einst und heute. Clemens-vonPirquet-Symposium Akademie im Dialog - Forschung & Gesellschaft, 29–30 September 2022.
Dugan, A., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., & Raffin, N. (2023). The environment, life expectancy, and growth in overlapping generations models: A survey. Journal of Economic Surveys 10.1111/joes.12602.