Mag. Dr. Yvonne Wolfmayr

Yvonne Wolfmayr is Senior Economist at the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) in the research area "Industrial, Innovation and International Economics". From 2013 to 2016 she was deputy director of WIFO. She studied economics at the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck with a major in International Economics. Since then, she has spent time abroad at renowned universities in the USA (University of California in Los Angeles - UCLA and the Stanford University). Her research focuses on the empirical analysis of international trade issues, including foreign direct investment, global value chains as well as trade in services. In all these areas she was involved in or led several projects (national and international). Recently these projects focused on geoeconomics, new EU trade policy initiatives, supply chain risks as well as the nexus between trade and the environment. She is also regularly involved in the forecasting activities at WIFO and a member of the Advisory Council for Foreign Trade Statistics of Statistics Austria. In addition, Yvonne has been an expert to and part of the organising team at the Research Centre in International Economics (FIW) which provides support to the Austrian scientific community in the field of International Economics and offers expert analysis on current policy related issues in International Economics. Her publications in international journals include International Economics, the Review of International Economics, the National Institute Economic Review, Empirica as well as Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.