CV

Michael Pfarrhofer, born on June 1, 1993 in Linz [PDF of CV]

Employment

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
Research scholar, scientific consultancy, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 11/2020–10/2021
Senior scientist, Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) at University of Salzburg, 11/2018–09/2019
Research associate, Institute for Macroeconomics at WU Vienna, 02/2018–09/2019

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)

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
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

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

Current/planned teaching: Advanced Macroeconometrics (WU Vienna, 2024, MSc Science), Macroeconometrics (WU Vienna, twice 2024, MSc Applied), Econometrics II (WU Vienna, planned 2024/25, BSc)
Undergraduate: Macroeconomics (University of Salzburg, 2018/19, 2019/20), Macroeconomics (University of Vienna, 2022/23), Macroeconomics (WU Vienna, 2023/24)
Graduate: Macroeconometrics I (University of Salzburg, 2020), Advanced Macroeconometrics (WU Vienna, 2019), Methods in Economics (University of Salzburg, 2019/20, 2020/21), Macroeconometrics: Structural and predictive inference (University of Salzburg, 2021), Foundational Econometrics (University of Vienna, 2022/23), Introduction to Bayesian Econometrics (Univie, 2022/23), Macroeconometrics (University of Vienna, 2023), Advanced Topics in Macroeconometrics (University of Vienna, 2023)
Other: Analysis of the performance of students (University of Salzburg, 2019), Rethinking Economics: “Predictive inference and forecast evaluation metrics” (University of Tübingen, 2022), Sommeradakademie (Talente OÖ, for high-potential students in high school, 2022, guest talk on crises, central banking and financial markets)

Personally I am a fan of rock ‘n’ roll and heavy metal, barbecuing, cycling, and I usually watch F1 and/or MotoGP races on Sunday afternoon.