Current Positions
Personal Data
 | Born: October 23rd 1948, Vienna
| | Married to Elsa Aiginger
| | Children: Thomas (*1979), Philipp (*1984) |
Education
| Economics at the University of Vienna (1966-1970)
| | Dissertation: Entrepreneurial Decision Making (1974)
| | Purdue University, Indiana, USA (1978)
| | Habilitation: Production Theory under Uncertainty (1984) |
Employment Record
| Economist at WIFO (since 1970)
| | Managing Editor of Empirica - Austrian Economic Papers (1975-1992)
| | Visiting Professor at Stanford University, CA, USA (1982)
| | Deputy Director at WIFO (1984-1987)
| | Visiting Professor at MIT, Boston, Mass., USA (1991)
| | Visiting Professor at UCLA, Cal., USA (1997)
| | Professor at the University of Linz, Austria (since 1992: Guest Professor, Honorary Professor); Industrial Economics & Economic Strategy
| | Supervising Board of OIAG (Holding Company of industrial firms) (1993-2000)
| | Deputy Director at WIFO (1996-1998)
| | Professor at GSB and IIS, Stanford University (2002)
| | Deputy Director at WIFO (2002-2005)
| | WIFO director (since 1st of March 2005)
| | Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria (since 2006) |
Key areas of research
| Industrial Economics and Industrial Policy
| | Competitiveness of firms, industries, countries
| | Economic strategy and policy |
Other fields of activities
| Lecturing at University of Vienna, University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Technical University, Vienna, University of Hunan (China), Webster University
| | Editorial Board of Empirica: Journal of European Economics |
Referee for
| Economic Journal
| | European Economic Review
| | Journal of Industrial Economics
| | Journal of Small Business Economics
| | Journal of Economics
| | Journal of Empirical Economics
| | International Journal of Industrial Organization
| | Empirica - Austrian Economic Papers |
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Prof. Karl Aiginger
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
Arsenal, Objekt 20
1030 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 798 26 01 - 210
Fax: +43 1 798 26 01 - 306
Email: Karl.Aiginger[at]wifo.ac.at
Last Update: 2013-06-13
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