2025 – FIW-Award for PhD Theses
- Anna Matzner for the dissertation “Essays in Macroeconomics”
- Anja Sebbesen for the dissertation “Essays on the Diffusion of Ideas and Beliefs”
2024 – abbr class=”abbr-attribute” title=”Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft”>FIW-Award for Master’s Theses
- Katharina Jäger for the master’s thesis “Import competition from China and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Norwegian manufacturing sector”
- Alena Pavlova for the master’s thesis “Unveiling the Implications of Trade Wars: Vulnerabilities and Economic Consequences in the China – Taiwan conflict”
2023 – FIW-Award for PhD Theses
- Julia Spornberger for the PhD-Thesis ‘Three Essays on the Impact of Policies on Bilateral Trade Flows and on Consistent Estimation Methods Within a Structural Gravity Framework’
2022 – FIW-Award for Master’s Theses
- Nicole Sattler for the master’s thesis “The impact of the AfCFTA on the EU-Africa trade relation”
- Johanna Treiber for the master’s thesis “Labour Laws and FDI Productivity Spillovers – Analysis of the Labour Mobility Channel”
2021 – FIW-Award for PhD-theses
- Katharina Bergant for the PhD-thesis “Essays in Financial Economics”
Martina Neuländtner for her dissertation “Regional knowledge creation and R&D collaboration in Europe“
2020 – FIW-Award for Master’s Theses
- Isabella Bachleitner for the master’s thesis “Trade and Inequality through the Lense of Free Trade Agreements”
- Lisa Eller for the master’s thesis “Community Supported Agriculture in Austria – Alternatives for the Agricultural Sector”
- Anna Matzner for the master’s thesis “The impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on inequality in the European Union: A Bayesian Global VAR Approach”
- Martina Pardy for the master’s thesis “Estimating full income distributions for US counties and their sensitivity to Internal Migration”
- Ingrid Setz for the master’s thesis “Unveiling India’s Population Dynamics: Spatially Explicit Drivers of Age Structure Composition”
2018 – FIW-Award for Master’s Theses
- Julia Spornberger for her master-thesis “The Impact of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on Bilateral Trade Flows for Manufactured Goods”
2017/18 – FIW Award for PhD Theses:
- Julia Bachtrögler for the PhD thesis “Essays on the Effectiveness of EU Cohesion Policy: The Role of Policy Implementation and its Effects in Heterogeneous Regions“.
2016 – FIW-Award for Master’s Theses
- Anja Kukuvec for the master’s thesis “Human Capital, Technology Diffusion, and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Regions“
Fanny Helene Dellinger for the master’s thesis “Will we eliminate poverty until 2030? An assessment based on the Growth Elasticity of Poverty“
2015 – FIW-Award für PhD-Thesen:
Claudia Steinwender for her PhD-thesis “International and Innovation Activities of Firms”
Veronika Katrin Kulmer for her doctoral-thesis “Policy Analysis in a Computable General Equilibrium Framework: Case Studies on Transport and Trade Policy”
Elisabeth Nindl for her PhD-thesis “International Trade, Institutional Quality and Economic Development”
2014 – FIW-Award for Master’s Theses
- Anna Pauls for her master-thesis “Offshoring and Manufacturing Wages in Sub-Saharan African Countries”
Julia Grübler for her master-thesis “European Trade Preferences facing the New Millennium“