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Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Guest Senior Research Scholar

Economic Frontiers Research Group

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

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Grass, D., Kuhn, M., Patange, O. , Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., & Wrzaczek, S. (2025). Out of the black into the green? Modeling the pathways for regional coal transitions. European Journal of Operational Research 10.1016/j.ejor.2025.12.045. (In Press)

Kerndler, M., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., & Sanchez-Romero, M. (2025). A life-cycle model of risk-taking on the job. Journal of Population Economics 38 (3) p. 62. 10.1007/s00148-025-01118-y.

Grass, D., Kuhn, M., Patange, O. , Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., & Wrzaczek, S. (2025). Out of the black into the green? Modeling the pathways for regional coal transitions. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-25-002

Freiberger, M., Kuhn, M., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Sanchez-Romero, M. , & Wrzaczek, S. (2025). Optimization in Age-Structured Dynamic Economic Models. In: The Unaffordable Price of Static Decision-making Models. Eds. El Ouardighi, F. & Feichtinger, G., pp. 35-62 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-88637-9 10.1007/978-3-031-88638-6_4.

Sanchez-Romero, M. & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2024). Socio-Economic Consequences of Increased Longevity in Contemporary Populations. In: The Biodemography of Ageing and Longevity. Eds. Lemaître, J.-F. & Pavard, S., pp. 353-374 Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009007245 10.1017/9781009007245.019.