CV
Michael Pfarrhofer, born on June 1, 1993 in Linz [PDF of CV]
Employment and professional experience
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at WU Vienna, 09/2023–
- Expert, European Commission “Macro Modelling and Nowcast Pool,” JRC Ispra, 12/2020–
- Professor of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics at University of Vienna, 09/2022–08/2023
- Visiting researcher, Department of Economics at Bocconi University, 03/2022–08/2022
- Post-doc researcher, Department of Economics at University of Salzburg, 10/2019–08/2022
Education
- Venia docendi in Economics at University of Salzburg (01/2023), habilitation “Structural and predictive inference with parametric and nonparametric models in economics”
- Ph.D. in Economics at WU Vienna (09/2019), thesis “Bayesian inference in high-dimensional multivariate time series models with applications in macroeconomics and finance”
- MSc. in Economics at WU Vienna (06/2018)
- BSc. in Business, Economics and Social Sciences at WU Vienna (07/2016)
Professional activities
- General Secretary of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG), 2025-
- Membership: American Economic Association (AEA), Austrian Economic Association (NOeG), Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN), European Economic Association (EEA), Econometric Society (ES), International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- Other activities: Local organizing and scientific committee member, 12th European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE, Salzburg), 2022; Scientific Committee OeNB/SUERF Economic Conference 2025
- Referee: Computational Economics, ECB Working Paper Series, Econometrics and Statistics, Economic Modelling, Economic Systems, Empirica, Empirical Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Journal, German Economic Review, IMF Economic Review, International Economics, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Macroeconomic Dynamics, OeNB Jubiläumsfonds, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, PLOS One, Real Estate Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of International Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Statistica Sinica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Quantitative Economics
Honors and awards
- Award of Excellence (Staatspreis) for the dissertation “Bayesian inference in high-dimensional multivariate time series models with applications in macroeconomics and finance,” awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, 2020
- Klaus Liebscher Economic Research Scholarship 2020 (KLERS), awarded by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), 05/2021–10/2021
Teaching and other activities
- Current/planned teaching: Advanced Macroeconometrics (WU), Macroeconometrics (WU), Economic Modeling (WU)
- Undergraduate: Macroeconomics (U Salzburg), Macroeconomics (U Vienna), Macroeconomics (WU), Econometrics II (WU)
- Graduate: Macroeconometrics I (U Salzburg), Advanced Macroeconometrics (WU), Methods in Economics (U Salzburg), Macroeconometrics: Structural and predictive inference (U Salzburg), Foundational Econometrics (U Vienna), Introduction to Bayesian Econometrics (U Vienna), Macroeconometrics (U Vienna), Advanced Topics in Macroeconometrics (U Vienna)
- Other: Analysis of the performance of students (U Salzburg), Rethinking Economics: “Predictive inference and forecast evaluation metrics” (U Tübingen, 2022), Sommeradakademie (Talente OÖ for students in high school 2022)
Personally I am a fan of rock & roll and heavy metal, barbecuing, cycling/running, and I usually watch Formula 1 and/or MotoGP races on Sunday afternoon.