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Gustav Feichtinger
Guest Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Biography
Professor Gustav Feichtinger worked at IIASA from 1992 - 2004 (part time) on population problems. He re-joined IIASA in 2015 as a guest senior research scholar of the Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) Program.Professor Feichtinger studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Vienna. He holds a PhD in Mathematics (1963, Dissertation in Group Theory). After a research position at the IBM Laboratory Vienna he moved to the University of Bonn (1965 – 1972), where he was Assistant and Associate Professor of Statistics (Habilitation in Statistics and Demography). In 1972, he was appointed to Full Professor for Operations Research at the Vienna University of Technology (Faculty of Mathematics: Professor emeritus since 2008). Since 1977, he has been Research Group Leader for Formal (later: Economic) Demography at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2001, he was elected as corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2007, he holds an Honorary Doctorate of the Faculty for Economics of the University of Magdeburg.
His research interests are as follows:
• Applications of optimal control theory and dynamic games in economics and OR
• Nonlinear dynamic modelling of socio-economic processes
• Economics of 'deviant behavior': addiction, corruption, violence, terrorism
• Dynamic cost-benefit analysis in public policy, epidemiology (illicit drug dynamics, HIV)
• Demography, population mathematics and economics
• Health economics and disease control
• Social interactions, peer groups and networks.
Last update: 10 DEC 2015
Publications
Kopel, M. & Feichtinger, G. (1995). Rationalitaet und komplexes Verhalten. Homo oeconomicus und Chaos - Ein Widerspruch? Zeitschrift fuer Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung 47 (6) 545-557.
Gragnani, A., Rinaldi, S., & Feichtinger, G. (1995). Slow-Fast limit cycles in controlled drug markets. In: Proceedings of 3rd European Control Conference ECC '95, 5-8 September 1995.
Prskawetz, A., Feichtinger, G., Luptacik, M., Milik, A., Wirl, F., Hof, F., & Lutz, W. (1994). Endogenous Growth of Population and Income Depending on Resource and Knowledge. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-94-133
Feichtinger, G. & Wirl, F. (1994). On the stability and potential cyclicity of corruption in governments subject to popularity constraints. Mathematical Social Sciences 28 (2) 113-131. 10.1016/0165-4896(94)00750-0.
Feichtinger, G. & Novak, A. (1994). Optimal pulsing in an advertising diffusion model. Optimal Control Applications and Methods 15 (4) 267-276. 10.1002/oca.4660150405.