Karl Aiginger
| Karl Aiginger | |
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| Born |
October 23, 1948 Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality | Austria |
| Institution |
Austrian Institute of Economic Research Vienna University of Economics and Business Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| Field | Industrial organization |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Karl Aiginger (born October 23, 1948) is an Austrian economist. He was the head of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) between 2005 and 2016, he is a professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and an honorary professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. He was succeeded by Christoph Badelt as the head of WIFO in September 2016. He established and manages the lateral thinking platform Policy Crossover Center, an interdisciplinary discussion forum on European policy. As an author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide.
He studied at the University of Vienna (1966–1974) and at Purdue University (Indiana, United States (1978). He has been working at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) since 1970. Karl Aiginger is a professor of economic policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. He was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, 1991) and at the University of California, Los Angeles (United States, 1997). He has worked as a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (California, United States, 2002) and given lectures at the Changsha University (Hunan, China). He is married and has two children.
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