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Katharina Steiner
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration;
Research Institute for European Affairs, Austria
Spring 2008
Email katharina.steiner [@] wu-wien.ac.at
Website
Education
- Since 2006: Doctoral studies in social and economic
sciences, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration,
Research Institute for European Affairs, Austria
- 2006: Master’s degree at the Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria;
special fields (international finance and marketing; European
integration; SMEs); thesis on “The Impact of
Financial Services Foreign Direct Investment on Economic
Development and Growth”
- 2003: ERASMUS exchange
semester at the Université Louis
Pasteur (ULP), Strasbourg/France
Experience
- Since 2006: Research Assistant, Research
Institute for European Affairs, Austria
- Internships in Austria and abroad: e.g. Schwarzconsult,
consulting for creative industries (Vienna/Austria); Prisma
Creditinsurance (Vienna/Austria); Austrian Chamber of Commerce
(Brussels/Belgium); UniCredit – BA-CA, (Vienna/Austria)
Research Interests
- Finance-growth nexus; financial market integration;
currency substitution; FDI-growth nexus
- Emerging market economies (focus: Central and (South)
Eastern Europe)
- Since 2005, member
of the “Finance-growth
nexus” research group at the Research Institute
for European Affairs
Award
- 2006: Walther Kastner Award for the thesis, Austrian
Bankers’ Association
Selected Publications
- Pichler,
A., Steiner, K., Fink, G., and Haiss, P. (2007): "Financial
Integration in Europe: Effects on Markets and Economic Growth,"
in F. Breuss, S. Griller, G. Fink (eds.), Liberalisation
of Services in the Internal Market (= Publication Series
of ECSA Austria, Vol. 6), Vienna/ New York (Springer) 2007
- Eller, M., Haiss, P., and Steiner, K. (2006): "Foreign
direct investment in the financial sector and economic growth
in Central and Eastern Europe: The crucial role of the efficiency
channel," Emerging Markets Review 7/4, 300-319
Selected Conference Presentations
- ICCEES Regional European Congress, August 2-4, 2007,
Berlin/DE: Mechanisms driving foreign currency debt of
private households in CEECs, presenter and author
- 5th
Global Conference on Business & Economics
by the Association for Business & Economics Research,
July 6-8, 2006, Cambridge/UK: Internationalisation
Strategies Following Regional Ties: Austrian and
Spanish Banks Abroad, presenter and co-author
- Doctoral
Workshop on Financial Market Development in the
CEE Countries, EIASM, Mai 26-27, 2006, Prag/CZ: Foreign
Direct Investment in the Financial Sector: The
Engine of Growth for Central and Eastern Europe?; presenter
and co-author; discussant
Languages
- German: native
- English: fluent
- French: fluent
- Spanish: basic
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