Michael A. Landesmann

Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Michael A. Landesmann is Scientific Director of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies – a leading European Research Center on developments in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe - and professor of economics at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. D.Phil in economics from Oxford University (Balliol College). Previous appointments at the University of Cambridge (Department of Applied Economics and Fellow of Jesus College). Currently coordinator of a large European Integrated Research Project ‘MICRO-DYN’ which includes 17 leading European research institutes using micro (particularly) enterprise data-sets to study issues of European competitiveness. Research interests include international economic integration, growth and catching-up, globalization and labour markets, transition in Central and Eastern Europe, migration. Founding Managing Editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (SCED, Elsevier Publ).