Head of Research Group Regional Science, Risk and Ressource Economics
Public Economics
Quantifying Risks (Catastrophic an non-catastrophic Weather Risk)
Mechanism Design of Risk Transfer
Environmental Economics
Career
Franz Prettenthaler graduated in economics and environmental sciences from the University of Graz and holds postgraduate degrees in philosphy from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) as well as in public economics from the Universities Paris X and Cergy Pontoise. His PhD thesis at the University of Graz (promotion 2002 with distinction) was on dynamic consistency in individual and collective decision theory under risk. After a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Graz he joined JOANNEUM RESEARCH and extensively worked on the reform of the risk transfer mechanisms for natural catastrophes in Austria and was the first to suggest a general transfer account for social transfers.
Teaching activity
Insurance Economics, Institute of Analysis and Computational Number Theory (Math A), Graz University of Technology.
