Josef Baumgartner
Economist at Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
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Dr. Josef Baumgartner is a Senior Economist at Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
He has worked in the Research Group "Macroeconomics and European Economic Policy" since 1996.
His regular research activities include inflation analyses and forecasts as well as the provision of medium-term forecasts (project leader) and economic policy simulations with WIFO Macromod, an econometric model of the Austrian economy.
Before joining WIFO, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the Vienna University of Technology (1994-1996) and lecturer for economics at the University of Linz (1993-2004), the Vienna University of Technology (1995-1997), the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Vienna University of Applied Sciences (2006-2008).
He was a visiting researcher at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB; 2002 to 2003) and a member of the ESCB Inflation Persistence Network (IPN; on behalf of the OeNB from 2003 to 2005).
In 2009, he was Acting Desk Officer for Austria at the DG Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission in Brussels.
In 2011 and 2012 (each fall term) he was a visiting scholar at The Europe Center at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA).
In addition to WIFO publications and project reports, his research was published in international journals (German Economic Review, Managerial and Decision Economics or Empirica – Journal of European Economics).
He studied Economics and Econometrics at the University of Linz (MA in Economics), the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna (IHS), and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Ph.D.
in Statistics and Economics).
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Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
 Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Investment ManagersFinance Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The firm was founded in 1927 by Friedrich August von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. WIFO provides applied empirical economic research in Austria with a strong commitment at the European level. The mission of the firm is to build a bridge between academic basic research and economic policy application in order to contribute to solving socio-economic challenges and to create a factual basis for decisions in business and society. Their bridging function also goes hand in hand with an intermediary role between economic policy institutions, university institutions and advisory and consulting companies. WIFO is the point of contact for international organizations (EU, OECD and IMF) and rating agencies with regard to national economic development and the assessment of economic policy measures. | Economist | 01/01/1996 |
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Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Investment ManagersFinance Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The firm was founded in 1927 by Friedrich August von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. WIFO provides applied empirical economic research in Austria with a strong commitment at the European level. The mission of the firm is to build a bridge between academic basic research and economic policy application in order to contribute to solving socio-economic challenges and to create a factual basis for decisions in business and society. Their bridging function also goes hand in hand with an intermediary role between economic policy institutions, university institutions and advisory and consulting companies. WIFO is the point of contact for international organizations (EU, OECD and IMF) and rating agencies with regard to national economic development and the assessment of economic policy measures. | Finance |
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