Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz
Research Scholar
Economic Frontiers Program
Research Scholar
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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
Kuil, L., Carr, G., Prskawetz, A., Salinas, J.L., Viglione, A., & Blöschl, G. (2019). Learning from the Ancient Maya: Exploring the Impact of Drought on Population Dynamics. Ecological Economics 157 1-16. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.10.018.
Striessnig, E. (2019). The Demographic Metabolism Model of Human Capital Formation. In: Human Capital and Economic Growth The Impact of Health, Education and Demographic Change. Eds. Bucci, A., Prettner, K., & Prskawetz, Alexia, pp. 139-165 Palgrave Macmillian. ISBN 978-3-030-21599-6 10.1007/978-3-030-21599-6.
Bucci, A., Prettner, K., & Prskawetz, A. (2019). Human Capital and Economic Growth The Impact of Health, Education and Demographic Change. pp. 139-165 Palgrave Macmillian. ISBN 978-3-030-21599-6 10.1007/978-3-030-21599-6.
Sánchez-Romero, M. & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2019). Social Security: Long-Term Financing and Reform. In: Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. pp. 1-13 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-69892-2 10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_535-1.
Grames, J., Grass, D., Kort, P.M., & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2018). Optimal investment and location decisions of a firm in a flood risk area using impulse control theory. Central European Journal of Operations Research 27 (4) 1051-1077. 10.1007/s10100-018-0532-0.