Josef Baumgartner

Josef Baumgartner has been an economist at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in Vienna, Austria since April 1996. He was acting desk economist for Austria at DG Ecfin of the European Commission in 2009 (Feb. to Nov.). From Dec. 1994 to March 1996 he was assistant professor at the department of economics at the Technical University Vienna. From Sept. 1993 to July 2008 he held various positions as lecturer in economics at the University of Linz, Technical University Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of Applied Sciences of the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna. He studied economics and econometrics at the University of Linz (MA in Economics, July 1993), the Institute of Advanced Studies Vienna (IHS; Sept. 1992 to Nov. 1994), the University of Copenhagen (August 2009) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (PhD in Econometrics and Economics, Aug. 2010).

Macroeconomics and monetary economics, applied econometrics, especially business cycle and inflation analysis and economic forecasting.