Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Senior Research Scholar
Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Biography
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler is a senior research scholar with the Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) research group at IIASA, and the leader of the Systemic Risk Analysis and Modeling theme. He is a member of the board of directors of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society and the board of directors for the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI). Dr. Hochrainer-Stigler studied statistics with a focus on mathematical statistics at the Department of Statistics and Decision Support Systems and Sociology, empirical branch, at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna.His main research interests include risk management of systemic risk and extreme events such as natural disasters in developing countries, statistical (stochastic) modeling of rare and systemic events, extreme value theory, dependency of risks using copula approaches, econometrics, and multivariate analysis. He has published widely, including a number of books, book chapters and articles in major peer-reviewed journals such as Nature and Global Environmental Change. Dr. Hochrainer-Stigler is a regularly invited speaker at major scientific conferences and insurance meetings and has also facilitated and participated in high-level workshops in the Caribbean, Madagascar, Turkey, the Philippines, India and Mexico.
Last update: 23 FEB 2021
Publications
Hochrainer-Stigler, S. & Hanger-Kopp, S. (2017). Subsidized Drought Insurance in Austria: Recent Reforms and Future Challenges. Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 6 (4) 599-614.
Obersteiner, M. , Balkovic, J. , Böttcher, H., Bouma, J., Fritz, S. , Fuss, S., Havlik, P. , Heumesser, C., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Jantke, K., Khabarov, N. , Koch, B., Kraxner, F., Kuik, O.J., Leduc, S., Liu, J., Lucht, W., McCallum, I. , Mechler, R. , Moltchanova, E., Reyers, B., Rydzak, F., Schill, C., Schleupner, C., Schmid, E., Schneider, U.A., Scholes, R., See, L. , Skalsky, Ra. , Smirnov, A. , Szolgayova, J., Tarasovičová, Z., & Yang, H. (2017). The Value of Global Earth Observations. In: Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy. Eds. Onoda, M. & Young, O.R., pp. 137-142 Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-10-3713-9 10.1007/978-981-10-3713-9_12.
Martins, M.A., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., & Pflug, G. (2017). Vulnerability of Agricultural Production in the Brazilian Semi-Arid: An empirical approach including risk. IDRiM 7 (1) 1-23. 10.5595/idrim.2017.0174.
Nilsson, E., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Mochizuki, J. , & Uvo, C.V. (2016). Hydro-climatic variability and agricultural production on the shores of Lake Chad. Environmental Development 20 15-30. 10.1016/j.envdev.2016.09.001.
Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Mochizuki, J. , & Pflug, G. (2016). Impacts of Global and Climate Change Uncertainties for Disaster Risk Projections: A Case Study on Rainfall-Induced Flood Risk in Bangladesh. Journal of Extreme Events 3 (1) art.no.1650004. 10.1142/S2345737616500044.