Katrin Rabitsch

Katrin Rabitsch is an Associate Professor of Economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), affiliated with the Department of Economics. Her research focuses on International Macroeconomics/Finance, Quantitative Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, and Monetary Economics. She has published extensively in top journals like European Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.

Her work explores topics such as monetary policy transmission channels, fiscal multipliers, macroprudential policies, and asset pricing dynamics. Notable recent contributions include analyzing nonlinear inflation dynamics, firm entry costs in asset pricing, and agent-based economic forecasting models. Rabitsch also engages in policy-oriented research, examining the effects of borrower heterogeneity on financial stability and the role of imperfect information in monetary policy design.

Her teaching and research are supported by affiliations with institutions like the Department of Economics at WU Vienna. Rabitsch’s methodologies often involve advanced DSGE modeling, VAR analysis, and computational simulations to address complex macroeconomic questions.