At the Department of Economics we work and do research in the following areas:
- Environmental Economics (Michael Finus, Birgit Bednar Friedl)
- International Trade (Jörn Kleinert)
- Macroeconomics, Priceindices and Property Markets (Robert Hill)
- Econometrics and Empirical Economics (Hans Manner)
- Decision and Game Theory and Mechanism Design (Christoph Kuzmics)
- Economic Policy (Stefania Rossi)
- Political Economy, Innovation and Economic Growth (Maik T. Schneider)
- Behavioural Public Economic Theory and Macroeconomics (Ronald Wendner, Thomas Aronsson)
- Social Choice and Fairness (Christian Klamler, Daniel Eckert)
The Department of Economics publishes the Working Paper Series Graz Economics Papers (RePEc Version).
The Department also publishes two economics blogs in which we share our research with a broad public and look at current public debates from an economic perspective: Graz Economics Blog, The Game Theory of Everyday Life.
Closely linked to the Department of Economics are
- the Graz Schumpeter Centre, which organizes the Graz Schumpeter Lectures, the Economic Policy Forum, and a Summer School every two years,
- the interdisciplinary Wegener Centre for Climate and Global Change and
- the profile-forming area Complexity of Life (COLIBRI).