Yvonne Wolfmayr

Dr. Yvonne Wolfmayr is a Senior Economist at Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
She has been working in the Research Group “Industrial Economics, Innovation, and International Competition” since 1992.
From 2013 to 2016 she was Deputy Director of WIFO.
Her research focuses on the empirical analysis of international trade issues, including foreign direct investment, multinational companies, and international outsourcing as well as trade in services, with a special focus on issues of integration of Central and Eastern Europe and the effects of foreign trade and international production integration on the labor market.
In these areas, she was involved in or led several projects (national and international).
She is also an expert in the Austrian Advisory Council for Foreign Trade Policy and a member of the Advisory Council for Foreign Trade Statistics of Statistics Austria.
In addition, she has been an expert too and part of the organizing team at the Research Center of 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.
She studied Economics at the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck, with a major in International Economics.
She also spent time abroad at renowned universities in the USA (University of California, Los Angeles, and Stanford University).