YSSP opportunities in the Economic Frontiers Program

Given the research themes of the Economic Frontiers Program presented on the main page and pages of the research groups on Economics of Equal Life Chances (EELC) and Economics of Disruptive Change (EDC), the program especially welcomes applications for the YSSP 2024 surrounding the following topics:

Research relating to unequal access to essential goods and services and the implications for development opportunities, vulnerability and well-being.
Distributional impacts of climate and agricultural transitions.
The modelling of social tipping in dynamic climate systems.
Household responses to disaster risks.
Theoretical and empirical modelling relating to the accumulation and allocation of human capital (health and education) and other productive factors (wealth, retirement decisions) in response to transition processes.
Economic modelling of disruptions (e.g. climate tipping, eco-system collapse, technological breakthrough, pandemics, drastic political change) and resilience.
Dynamic and game-theoretic modelling of environmental and climate policies as well as in the setting of energy transitions.
Modeling economic dynamics (e.g., transitional paths, strategic interaction) and analysis of policy implications.
Modelling of health and health care for well-being and in the process of transitions.
Modelling of the circular economy and different market structures.

Applicants focusing on other research topics not listed above are still highly encouraged to apply to the Economic Frontiers Program, if the research questions align with the topics covered in the Program.

In terms of methods researchers of the EF Program can offer expertise in

economic dynamics,
optimal control and differential game theory,
overlapping-generations modelling,
advanced and structural econometrics,

including both theoretical and numerical approaches. Hence, the Program can provide particularly in-depth supervision to students working within these frameworks but also very much welcomes applications based on different methodological approaches.

If your proposed research topic matches the interests and/or methodologies used by the mentors listed below, we invite you to directly contact them already before drafting your application.

EF mentors

Michael Freiberger

freiberger@iiasa.ac.at

Research interests:

Modeling disaster risk decisions
Economic modeling of the recycling sector
Modelling behaviour under stochastic shocks
Macro-economic aspects of integrated assessment models (IAMs)
Theoretical health economics

Methodologies:

Optimal control models (standard and distributed)
Dynamic optimization (for stochastic and deterministic models)
Dynamic system modeling
General and partial equilibrium models

Yuliya Kulikova

kulikova@iiasa.ac.at

Research interests:

Quantitative Macroeconomics
Applied Microeconometrics
Inequality, Labor Economics
Family Economics
Health, Human Capital Accumulation

Methodologies:

Overlapping generations models
Life-cycle models
Panel data analysis

Stefan Wrzaczek

wrzaczek@iiasa.ac.at

Research interests:

Modeling of disruptive changes in environmental economics and (theoretical) models
Population dynamics
Energy transition
Optimal environmental taxation
Optimal behavior with strategic interaction (market entry and deterrence)

Methodologies:

Optimal control (standard, age-structured, with random shocks)
Dynamic optimization
Dynamic games

Further information on the organisational structure of the YSSP can be found here.

Economic Frontiers YSSP alumni

2024

Amrutha GS
Measuring Health and Economic Consequences of Air Pollution in India: An Empirical Study Investigating the Nexus Between Air Pollution, Health Outcomes and Multifaceted Economic Loss

Jinhyeok Jang
Neighborhood change and well-being disparities: the role of unequal community infrastructure investment

Kunxin Zhu
Waves of change: understanding the impact of natural hazards on housing market dynamics and coastal evolution