Josef Baumgartner has been an economist at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in Vienna, Austria since April 1996. He is a senior economist in WIFO's Macroeconomics and European Policy Research Group. In 2009 (Feb. to Nov.) he was acting desk economist for Austria at DG Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission in Brussels. From 2003 to 2005 he was a member of the Eurosystem Inflation Persistence Network (IPN) organized by the European Central Bank (ECB). Before he joined WIFO,  he was an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the Technical University Vienna (Dec. 1994 to March 1996). Next to his research positions he held various affiliations as (part-time) lecturer in economics at the University of Linz, Technical University Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of Applied Sciences of the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna.

He studied economics and econometrics at the University of Linz (MA in Economics, July 1993), the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna (Sept. 1992 to Nov. 1994), the University of Copenhagen (August 2009) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (PhD in Econometrics and Economics, Aug. 2010).

In his current research (jointly work with G. Ruenstler, WIFO) he analyses macroeconomic divergences within the euro area and with the world economy within an analytical framework of a global cointegrated vector autoregressive model.

Josef's publication list can be found on the back of his attached Curriculum Vitae.