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Professor of Economics
Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Vienna University of Technology
Prof. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz is Head of the Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics of the Vienna University of Technology as well as Deputy Director at the Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences. She teaches courses on microeconomics, dynamic macroeconomics, economic modelling and environmental and population economics.
Research Interests
- Long-run population and economic development.
- Macroeconomic consequences of an ageing population.
- Population ageing, economic productivity, and the labour market.
- Agent-based computational models and social interaction.
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz graduated from the Vienna University of Technology. Her international experience includes a postgraduate study as a Fulbright scholarship holder at the University of Chicago in Economics, a Max Kade scholarship to spend one year as a postdoctorate researcher at the University of California, Berkley and five years as the head of an independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for Demography, Rostock. Since 2003 she is deputy director of VID at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2008 she is professor of Mathematical Economics at TU Vienna. Since 2012 she is head of the Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics at TU Vienna. In July 2013 she joined IIASA, Laxenburg as a research associate.
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz has published in the area of population and environmental economics. She is acts as associate editor and member of the advisory board in international journals including Demographic Research, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Population and Environment, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research and Genus.
She has received the Figdor-Price for law, social- and economic sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences and was elected full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz sits on the Scientific Advisory Council of numerous institutions including the Austrian Science Foundation, The European Doctoral School of Demographic Research, the Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University the commission on demographic change of the Leopoldina, the Austrian Interdisciplinary Platform on Ageing.
Publications
Books/Special issues edited
Prskawetz, A., I. Freund and B. Rengs (2013) Special issue: The Economics of Ageing, Selected Papers from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Austrian
Economic Association, Empricia, 40(3). http://link.springer.com/journal/10663/40/3/page/1
Stock, G., H. Bertram, A. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, W. Holzgreve, M. Kohli and U.M.
Staudinger (2012) Zukunft mit Kindern. Fertilität und gesellschaftliche
Entwicklung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Campus.
Frejka, T. and A. Prskawetz (2011) Fertility Dynamics in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, Special issue of Comparative Population Studies – Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft Vol. 36, 2-3.
Engelhardt, H., H.P. Kohler and A. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (2009) Causal Analysis in Population Studies. Concepts, Methods, Applications. Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, Vol. 23. http://www.springer.com/978-1-4020-9966-3
Journals
Grafeneder-Weissteiner, T., I. Kubin, K. Prettner, A. Prskawetz and S. Wrzaczek (2015) Coping with inefficiencies in a New Economic Geography model: the unintended consequences of policy interventions, Mathematical Social Sciences 76, 146-157.
Kuhn, M., S. Wrzaczek, A. Prskawetz and G. Feichtinger (2015) Optimal choice of health and retirement in a life-cycle model, Journal of Economic Theory 158, 186-212.
Hammer, B., A. Prskawetz and I. Freund (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.
Prskawetz, A. and J. Sambt (2014) Economic support ratios and the demographic dividend in Europe, Demographic Research 30, 963-1010.
Strulik, H., K. Prettner and A. Prskawetz (2013) The past and future of knowledgebased growth, Journal of Economic Growth 18, 411-437.2
Fent, T., A. Prskawetz and B. Aparicio Diaz (2013) Family Policies in the Context of Low Fertility and Social Structure, Demographic Research, Vol. 29, 963-998.
Mahlberg, B., I. Freund, J.C. Cuaresma and A. Prskawetz (2013) The ageproductivity pattern: Do location and sector affiliation matter? The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 1-2, 72-82 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2013.08.002.
Prskawetz, A., I. Freund and B. Rengs (2013) Editorial. Special issue: The Economics of Ageing, Selected Papers from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, Empirica 40(3), 391-395.
Hammer, B. and A. Prskawetz (2013) The public reallocation of resources across age: a comparison of Austria and Sweden, Empirica 40(3), 541-560.
Sánchez-Romero, M., J. Sambt and A. Prskawetz (2013) Quantifying the role of alternative pension reforms on the Austrian economy, Labour Economics 22, 94-114.
Mahlberg, B., I. Freund, J.C. Cuaresma and A. Prskawetz (2013) Ageing, productivity and wages in Austria, Labour Economics 22, 5-15.
Mahlberg, B., I. Freund and A. Prskawetz (2013) Ageing, productivity and wages in Austria: sector level evidence, Empirica 40(4), 561-584.
Feichtinger, G., A. A. Krasovskii, A. Prskawetz and V.M. Veliov (2012) Optimal agespecific election policies in two-level organizations with fixed size, CEJOR 20, 649-677.
Riosmena, F., M. Winkler-Dworak, A. Prskawetz and G. Feichtinger (2012) The impact of policies influencing the demography of age-structured populations: lessons from academies of sciences, GENUS, LXVIII, no.2, 29-52.
Prskawetz, A., T. Tsachev and V. M. Veliov (2012) Optimal education in an age-structured model under changing labor demand and supply, Macroeconomic Dynamics 16, 159-183.
Thomson, E., M. Winkler-Dworak, M. Spielauer and A. Prskawetz (2012) Union instability as an engine of fertility? A microsimulation model for France, Demography, Vol. 49, Issue 1, 175-195.
Kuhn, M., S.Wrzaczek, A. Prskawetz and G. Feichtinger (2011) Externalities in a life cycle model with endogenous survival, Journal of Mathematical Economics 47, 627-641.
Aparicio Diaz, B., T. Fent, A. Prskawetz and L. Bernardi (2011) Transition to Parenthood: The Role of Social Interaction and Endogenous Networks, Demography, Vol. 48, Issue 2, 559-579.
Feichtinger, G., M. Kuhn, A. Prskawetz and S. Wrzaczek (2011) The reproductive value as part of the shadow price of population, Demographic Research, Vol. 24, Article 28, 709-718.
Lyngstad, T.H. and A. Prskawetz (2010) Do siblings’ fertility decisions influence each other? Demography, 47(4), 923-934.
Prettner, K. and A. Prskawetz (2010) Demographic change in models of endogenous economic growth. A survey, CEJOR 18, 593-608.
Mishra, T., A. Prskawetz, M. Parhi and C. Diebolt (2010) Shock persistence in output and the role of stochastic population growth, Economic Bulletin, Vol. 30(3), 2437-2449.
Prettner, K. and A. Prskawetz (2010) Decreasing fertility, economic growth and the intergenerational wage gap, Empirica, Vol. 37(2), 197-214.
Wrzaczek, S., M. Kuhn, A. Prskawetz and G. Feichtinger (2010) The reproductive value in distributed optimal control model, Theoretical Population Biology, Vol. 77, Issue 3, 164-170. 3
Engelhardt, H., I. Buber, V. Skirbekk and A. Prskawetz (2010) Social involvement, behavioural risks and cognitive functioning among older people, Ageing and Society 30, 779-809.
Kim, J. and A. Prskawetz (2010) External Shocks, Household Consumption and Fertility in Indonesia, Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 29, 503- 516.
book chapters
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2015) Reallocation of Resources across Age in a Comparative European Setting. The National Transfer Accounts Project, in: Bernd Marin (ed.) The Future of Welfare in a Global Europe, Ashgate, 369-383.
Grames, J., Prskawetz, A., Grass, D. and Blöschl, G. (2015) Modelling the interaction between flooding events and economic growth, Proc. IAHS, 369, 3-6.
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2015) Population Dynamics: Mathematic Models of Population, Development, and Natural Resources. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol. 18. Oxford: Elsevier, 566-571
Schäfer, A. and A. Prskawetz (2014) Pollution, Public Health Care, and Life Expectancy when Inequality Matters, in: Elke Moser, Willi Semmler, Gernot Tragler and Vladimir M. Veliov (eds.) Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance 15, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 127-154.
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2012) An Economic Perspective on Ageing, in: Ageing Societies – Mature People. Gesundes Altern als Chance? Symposium 10.Mai 2011. Anlässlich der Feierlichen Sitzung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, ÖAW: Forschung und Gesellschaft 4, 39-48.7
Prskawetz, A. and B. Rengs (2012) Mathematik in der Ökonomie, Schriftenreihe zur Didaktik der Mathematik der Österreichischen Mathematischen Gesellschaft, 98-107.
Moser, E., A. Prskawetz and G. Tragler (2013) Environmental Regulations, Abatement and Economic Growth, in: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Tapio Palokangas and Alexander Tarasyev (eds.) Green Growth and Sustainable Development, Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance 14, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 87-111.
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., I. Jaschinski, M. Kreyenfeld, T. Sobotka, D. Philipov, L. Bernardi, J. Goldstein and K. Zeman (2012) Demographische Analyse der Fertilitätsentwicklung, in: Stock, G., H. Bertram, A. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, W. Holzgreve, M. Kohli and U.M. Staudinger (eds) Zukunft mit Kindern. Fertilität und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Campus, 116-197.
Goldstein, J., F. Rößger, I. Jaschinski and A. Prskawetz (2011) Fertility Forecasting in the German-speaking World: Recent Experience and Opportunities for Improvement, in: Comparative Population Studies – Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft Vol. 36, 2-3, 661-692 – http://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/74/64
Frejka, T. and A. Prskawetz (2011) Editorial to the special issue „Fertility Dynamics in Austria, Germany and Switzerland“, in: Comparative Population Studies – Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft Vol. 36, 2-3, 251-256
http://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/85/88
Moser, E., A. Prskawetz and G. Tragler (2012) Optimal Controls in Models of Economic Growth and the Environment, in: Lirkov, I., S. Margenov and J. Wasniewski (eds.), Large Scale Scientific Computing, Springer, Heidelberg, 139-146.
Buber, T. Sobotka, A. Prskawetz, H. Engelhardt and R. Gisser (2012). Austria: Stable and Low Fertility. In: Online-Handbuch Demographie, Berlin-Institut für Bevölkerung und Entwicklung, Berlin, S.1-5.
http://www.berlin-institut.org/onlinehandbuchdemografie/bevoelkerungsdynamik/regionale-dynamik/austria.html
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. and T. Fent (2011) Economic Perspectives on the Demographic Situation in Europe, in: H. Bertram and N. Ehlert (eds.) Family, Ties, and Care. Family Transformation in a Plural Modernity. Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen, Berlin & Farmington Hills, 241-254
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. and T. Fent (2011) Die ökonomischen Perspektiven der demographischen Situation in Europa, in: H. Bertram and N. Ehlert (eds.) Familie, Bindungen und Fürsorge. Familiärer Wandel in einer vielfältigen Moderne. Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen & Farmington Hills, 267-280.
Sambt, J. and A.Prskawetz (2011) National Transfer Accounts for Austria: low levels of education and the generosity of the social security system, in: R.Lee and A. Mason (eds.) Population Aging and the Generational Economy. A Global Perspective. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 256-268