Elisabeth Christen is Senior Economist at WIFO and has been working in the WIFO Research Group "Industrial Economics, Innovation
and International Competition" since 2013. Before joining WIFO in 2013, she worked as a research assistant at the Universities
of Linz and Innsbruck. She holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Linz (2008) and a PhD degree from the
University of Innsbruck with a major in International Economics (2013). Her research focusses on empirical analysis of international
trade issues, including foreign direct investment, the internationalisation strategies of multinational firms, trade in services
and the labour market impacts of trade as well as empirical analysis of trade policy. In the areas noted, she is involved
in or leading several projects (national and international) and teaches applied International Economics at the University
of Vienna. She is also an expert to the Austrian Advisory Council for foreign trade policy and is a member of the Advisory
Board on Foreign Trade Statistics at Statistics Austria. In addition, she is an expert to and part of the organising team
at the Research Centre International Economics (FIW) which provides support to the Austrian scientific community and offers
expert analysis on a number of current policy related issues in the field of International Economics. Her publications in
international journals include the Review of International Economics, World Economy as well as the Handbook of Computable
General Equilibrium Modeling.
