Allocation of funding through the original anniversary fund

the Austrian National Bank

Vienna (APA-ots) – “Sustainable research and innovation are central

Drivers for the

Future of our country and our economy. They create the basis

for well-founded decisions and solutions that benefit everyone in the long term

benefit. That’s why the OeNB supports the anniversary fund and

other economics programs consistently

young scientists and enables the best minds in

Austria to realize their research ideas,” explains Edeltraud

Stiftinger, Deputy Governor of the Austrian National Bank (

OeNB), the central role of the anniversary fund as an important instrument

to promote excellent economics

Research projects.

After a comprehensive evaluation, the OeNB Board of Directors has…

2nd award meeting 2025 the financing of the following 11

Research projects (44 applications) with around EUR 2.9 million from funds from the

Anniversary fund to promote the research and teaching tasks of the

Science approved:

HEIMBERGER, Philipp (Vienna Institute for International

Economic comparisons – wiiw): Understanding people’s views on fiscal

politics

HUBER, Florian (University of Salzburg, Department of Economics):

Exploring the Macro-to-Micro Propagation of Aggregate Shocks: The

Role of nonlinearities

KIRCHLER, Michael (Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck,

Institute of Banking and Finance): Metascience in Economics

MATTHES, Jörg (University of Vienna, Faculty of

Social Sciences, Institute for Journalism and

Communication Science): Scrolling Into Debt: Gen Zs Financial

Miseducation in the Digital Age

NECK, Reinhard (University of Klagenfurt, Institute for

Economics): Inflation in the 1920s and 2020s

RUST, Alexander (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for

Austrian and International Tax Law): The taxation of

net wealth

SANCHEZ-ROMERO, Miguel (Vienna University of Technology, Institute of

Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics): Sustainable

Pensions and Housing Markets: Ensuring Fairness and Sustainability in

Aging Societies

BLACK, Anna-Magdalena (Central European Academic non-profit

Private Foundation, Department of Economics): Cross-border Posting of

Workers: Effects on Firms and Workers in Austria

STEHRER, Robert (Vienna Institute for International

Economic comparisons – wiiw): The Regional Dimension of the

Integration of Refugees and Other Migrants in Austria

VANA-GÜR, Laura (Vienna University of Technology, Institute for

Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics): Sparsity and

Robustness Aspects in Multivariate Regression Models for Ordinal Data

WANDSCHNEIDER, Kirsten (University of Vienna, Institute for

Economics and Institute of Economics and

Social History (WISO): The Marshall Plan in Austria

The next submission date for the 2nd award meeting of

Anniversary fund in 2026 begins on January 26, 2026 and ends on

March 18, 2026 (noon).

Further, current information on the original

You can find the anniversary fund on the OeNB website.

Inquiry note:

Austrian National Bank

Mag. Marlies Schroeder, MiM

Telephone: +43-1-404 20-6900

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.oenb.at

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