Economics and Finance

Health Economics is a multidisciplinary research field of high societal relevance for both highly developed and less developed countries. It is connected to various areas of the public and private sector, requiring cutting-edge research in order to inform national and international decision makers and to further scientific insights.

The Team IHS HealthEcon at the Department of Economics and Finance (EcoFin) is one of the leading research groups in the field of applied health economics in Austria. Reflecting the requirement for a multidisciplinary approach, its members stem from a variety of different fields like economics, business administration, statistics, medicine and pharmacy; currently, there are also three young economists working as part of the team. IHS HealthEcon explores topics as diverse as the future of financing healthcare and long term care, efficiency studies and evaluation, equity in healthcare, healthcare systems comparisons, national and international health policy analysis, health services research and interactions of healthcare with other sectors.

To allow for the flexibility in this wide field of research, the team regularly cooperates with colleagues from within the IHS (e.g. from labour economics, public finance or mathematical modeling) as well as national and international partners. Topical results are regularly published in “Health System Watch” together with the Austrian Federation of Social Security Institutions.

• Health System Watch
• Reasearch Reports

Contact:

• Thomas Czypionka
• Markus Kraus
• Markus Pock
• Monika Riedel
• Gerald Röhrling

• Marcel Kalmar
• Johannes Leutgeb
• Clemens Siegl
• Susanne Ulinski
  
• Julia Warmuth
• Irina Zielinska