Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Phone: +43 1 51581 - 7707

E-Mail: alexia.fuernkranz(at)oeaw.ac.at

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz is deputy director of the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She holds a doctorate in mathematical economics from the Vienna University of Technology (TU), as well as a second doctorate (Habilitation) in population economics and applied econometrics from the same university.

She is professor in mathematical economics at the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, a research associate at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and one of the five directors of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, of which the Vienna Institute of Demography is one of three pillar institutions.

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz is working in the field of the economics of population and individual ageing, long-run economic growth, agent-based models and environmental economics. She has published numerous articles in refereed scientific journals and edited special issues of economic and demographic journals.

Selected Publications:

Optimization in age-structured dynamic economic models
Freiberger M., Kuhn M., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz A., Sanchez-Romero M. & Wrzaczek S. (2024). Optimization in age-structured dynamic economic models.
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The optimal lockdown intensity for COVID-19
Caulkins J., Grass D., Feichtinger G., Hartl R., Kort P. M., Prskawetz A., et al. (2021). The optimal lockdown intensity for COVID-19. Journal Of Mathematical Economics, 93, 102489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2021.102489
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An indirect method to monitor the fraction of people ever infected with COVID-19: An application to the United States
Sanchez-Romero M., di Lego Goncalves V., Prskawetz A. & L. Queiroz B. (2021). An indirect method to monitor the fraction of people ever infected with COVID-19: An application to the United States. Plos One, 16, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245845
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How Long Should the COVID-19 Lockdown Continue?
Caulkins J., Grass D., Feichtinger G., Hartl R., Kort P. M., Prskawetz A., et al. (2020). How Long Should the COVID-19 Lockdown Continue?. Plos One, 15, e0243413. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243413
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Research Areas

Areas of Expertise

Long-run population and economic development
Macroeconomic consequences of an ageing population
Agent-based computational models and social interaction

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