Office of the Austrian Productivity Board

c/o Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Otto-Wagner-Platz 3
1090 Vienna, Austria

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Bernhard Grossmann heads the Office of the Fiscal Advisory Council and Productivity Board at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, which supports the two bodies in the performance of their tasks. In this role, he bears overall responsibility for the content and organization of the Office and supports its work in the area of institutional synergies, among other things. He studied economics at the University of Vienna and completed advanced seminars, e. g. at the Summer School of the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include the governance architecture of the EU, rule-based fiscal policy and federalism.

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Overall responsibility for content and organization

Andreas Reinstaller is Senior Principal Economist at the Austrian Productivity Board. His work focuses on analyzing technological change, structural change and competitiveness and the ecological transition, as well as science, technology and innovation policy. He studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and holds a PhD from Maastricht University in the Netherlands where he was affiliated with the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT). Before joining the Office of the Austrian Productivity Board he worked as a senior economist at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) for 15 years. There he was, among other things, editor-in-chief of the WIFO Monthly Reports and coordinated and carried out analyses on the competitiveness of EU member states for the European Commission.  Previously he was an assistant professor at the Institute for International Trade and Development at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Andreas has published in scientific journals such as Research Policy, World Economy, Applied Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Scientometrics or the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.

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Curriculum vitae – Andreas Reinstaller (PDF, 0.1 MB)

Anna Brunner joined the Office of the Austrian Productivity Board at the OeNB as a research and administrative assistant in September 2022. After studying linguistics and sociology with a focus on family, generations and life-course trajectories at the University of Vienna, she first worked in study administration and then as a research assistant at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) on labor market, income and social security issues. At the Office of the Productivity Board, she attends to Board administration matters and is responsible for the provision of data for further analysis, and for publication editing and design.

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Zuzana Molnárová is Senior Economist at the Office of the Austrian Productivity Board at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, which she joined in September 2022. In her work she focuses on economic growth, production structures, labor productivity, human capital, demography and economic resilience. In 2020, she received her PhD in economics from the Vienna Graduate School of Economics at the University of Vienna, holding bachelor and master’s degrees in economic and financial mathematics (Comenius University in Bratislava). Before joining the Office of the Austrian Productivity Board, Zuzana worked as a researcher at the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS Vienna). She completed study and research stays at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) and at NHH Bergen (Norway), and worked as Junior Economic Analyst at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic. Zuzana has published results of her work in international and national journals, such as the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and has worked on numerous projects on current economic policy topics.

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Curriculum vitae – Zuzana Molnárová (PDF, 0.1 MB)

Michael Weichselbaumer joined the Office of the Austrian Productivity Board in September 2022. After obtaining a diploma in economics from the University of Vienna, he held a pre-doc position there and wrote his dissertation in empirical industrial organization. He then worked as a post-doc for several years at the TU Vienna, the Johannes-Kepler-University Linz, and the Vienna University of Business and Economics. His main research areas were: determinants and effects of mergers and acquisitions on firms and markets, estimation of price setting and markups in auction models, and patterns on markets with asymmetric information about product quality (in particular in relation to product tests of consumer associations and on the used car market). Within the Office of the Productivity Board, Michael focuses on microeconometric analysis, competition and concentration as well as labor market matters.

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