Vasily Astrov Economist e-mail: astrov@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-30 Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, CIS; macroeconomic analysis; financial markets; energy issues

Neil Foster Economist e-mail: foster@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-55 Economic growth and development, international trade and globalization, innovation and technology transfer, intellectual property rights, applied econometrics

Joseph F. Francois Senior Research Associate e-mail: francois@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10 Professor of economics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz trade in services; open economy competition policy and regulation of firm behaviour; financial market integration; open economy growth and development; economic integration; multilateral trading system; trade and investment policy under imperfect competition; labour market impact of globalization; the role of the service sector in trade and development; computational partial and general equilibrium modelling; income distribution in general equilibrium models of trade and competition

Vladimir Gligorov Economist e-mail: gligorov@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-23 Balkan countries, in particular Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia; long-term growth in transition countries; macroeconomic analysis, financial markets

Doris Hanzl-Weiss Economist e-mail: hanzl@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-32 Slovakia; industrial structural change, sector analysis

Peter Havlik Deputy Director e-mail: havlik@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10 Russia, EU-Russia relations, intra-CIS relations; East-West economic integration; foreign trade, exchange rate policies, competitiveness; statistics and databases

Mario Holzner Economist e-mail: holzner@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-28 Albania; Southeast Europe; income distribution and inequality; foreign trade; shadow economy; webmaster of the Balkan Observatory website

Gabor Hunya Economist e-mail: hunya@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-22 Romania, Bulgaria; privatization and foreign direct investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe

Michael Landesmann Director of Research e-mail: landesmann@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10 East-West economic integration, structural change, economic growth, general topics in international economic relations; EU-USA relations, globalization and labour markets, migration

Kazimierz Laski Senior Research Associate and former Director of Research e-mail: laski@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-87 Poland; macroeconomic problems of transition, particularly the theory of transformation and development strategy

Sebastian Leitner Economist e-mail: leitner@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-46 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; income distribution and inequality; labour markets

Zdenek Lukas Economist e-mail: lukas@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10 Slovak Republic; agriculture in Central, East and Southeast Europe As of May 31, 2011 Mr. Lukas has retired from the position of senior economist of the institute. He will be available to wiiw until the end of 2011 and may be contacted via his usual e-mail address. Ms. Hanzl is taking on his duties on questions concerning Slovakia.

Olga Pindyuk Economist e-mail: pindyuk@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-56 Kazakhstan, CIS; foreign trade; financial markets

Leon Podkaminer Economist e-mail: podkaminer@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-34 Poland, Czech Republic; economic policy; macroeconomic analysis; exchange rates; patterns of consumption, relative prices; editor of The wiiw Monthly Report

Johannes Pöschl Economist e-mail: johannes.poeschl@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-18 International trade, innovation and technology transfer, labour markets; software development

Josef Pöschl Economist e-mail: poeschl@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-37 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey; macroeconomic analysis

Sandor Richter Economist e-mail: richter@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-25 Hungary; EU budget; new EU member states; East-West economic integration

Roman Römisch Economist e-mail: roemisch@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-19 Regional economic developments; tax competition, national accounts and macroeconomic analysis

Robert Stehrer Deputy Director of Research e-mail: stehrer@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10 Labour markets; wage, productivity and trade structures; catching-up processes in the global economy

Roman Stöllinger Economist e-mail: stoellinger@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-57 International trade

Waltraut Urban Economist e-mail: urban@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10 China; industry and industrial structural change in Central and Eastern Europe; comparisons with Asian development patterns. As of December 31, 2010 Ms. Urban has retired from the position of senior economist of the institute. She will be available to wiiw on a consultancy basis. Until the end of 2011 Ms. Urban may be contacted via her usual e-mail address.

Hermine Vidovic Economist e-mail: vidovic@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-45 Croatia, Slovenia; labour markets and social policy

Monika Schwarzhappel Head of statistics department e-mail: schwarzhappel@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-16 Hungary, Romania; wiiw Annual Database; FDI

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Michael Landesmann Director of Research e-mail: landesmann@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10 East-West economic integration, structural change, economic growth, general topics in international economic relations; EU-USA relations, globalization and labour markets, migration

Peter Havlik Deputy Director e-mail: havlik@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10 Russia, EU-Russia relations, intra-CIS relations; East-West economic integration; foreign trade, exchange rate policies, competitiveness; statistics and databases

Robert Stehrer Deputy Director of Research e-mail: stehrer@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10 Labour markets; wage, productivity and trade structures; catching-up processes in the global economy