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
Prskawetz, A. (2016). The role of social interactions in demography: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach. In: Agent-Based Modelling in Population Studies. pp. 53-72 Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-32283-4 10.1007/978-3-319-32283-4_3.
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2015). Reallocation of resources across age in a comparative European setting. The National Transfer Accounts Project. In: The Future of Welfare in a Global Europe. Eds. Marin, Bernd, pp. 369-383 Farnham, UK: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4724-6309-8
Grafeneder-Weissteiner, T., Kubin, I., Prettner, K., Prskawetz, A., & Wrzaczek, S. (2015). Coping with inefficiencies in a New Economic Geography model: The unintended consequences of policy interventions. Mathematical Social Sciences 76 146-157. 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2015.05.003.
Kuhn, M., Wrzaczek, S., Prskawetz, A., & Feichtinger, G. (2015). Optimal choice of health and retirement in a life-cycle model. Journal of Economic Theory 158 186-212. 10.1016/j.jet.2015.04.006.
Hammer, B., Prskawetz, A., & Freund, I. (2015). Production activities and economic dependency by age and gender in Europe: A cross-country comparison. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 5 86-97. 10.1016/j.jeoa.2014.09.007.