Birgit Meyer

Birgit is an economist at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) and works in the research group “Industry, Innovation and International Economics”. She is also a lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and an External Research Fellow at the Kiel Center for Globalization. She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Bonn and received her PhD from the University of Kiel in 2016. For her dissertation, she received the Faculty Award for Outstanding Dissertations from the University of Kiel. During her PhD, she was a research fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the University of Kiel. Her research focuses on the analysis of the effects of globalization on innovation, investment and development. In particular, she analyzes the effects of foreign direct investment, multinational enterprises, and international trade at the firm and industry level. She has conducted several projects in this area, including projects for institutions such as the World Bank and UNIDO. Her work has been published in academic journals such as The World Economy, World Development and Review of World Economics. She has presented papers at numerous conferences and workshops. At the annual meeting of the Austrian Economic Association in 2019, she was awarded the Young Economist Award.