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
Sanchez-Romero, M., Lee, R.D., & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2020). Redistributive effects of different pension systems when longevity varies by socioeconomic status. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 17 e100259. 10.1016/j.jeoa.2020.100259.
Caulkins, J.P., Grass, D., Feichtinger, G., Hartl, R.F., Kort, P.M., Prskawetz, A., Seidl, A., & Wrzaczek, S. (2020). The optimal lockdown intensity for COVID-19. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-20-015
Sanchez-Romero, Miguel & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2020). The Impact of Reducing the Pension Generosity on Inequality and Schooling. De Economist 10.1007/s10645-020-09359-w.
Grames, J., Zoboli, O., Laner, D., Rechberger, H., Zessner, M., Sánchez-Romero, M., & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2019). Understanding feedbacks between economic decisions and the phosphorus resource cycle: A general equilibrium model including material flows. Resources Policy 61 311-347. 10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.02.010.
Sanchez-Romero, M. & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2019). Optimal time allocation in active retirement. Working Paper 02/2019. TU Wien , Vienna, Austria.