Main Responsibilities

• Methods for analysing emerging trends
• Quantitative analysis of innovation systems

Career

Miriam Steurer started her academic studies with a Masters degree in Economics at the Karl Franzens University Graz, Austria. She continued her studies with a Masters Degree in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was enrolled in the PhD program and completed her “prelims” and course work. For personal reasons she then went to Australia where she finished her PhD at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. In 2009 she joined the Institute for “Regional Economics” at Joanneum Research. Her main focus at Joanneum Research is the development of tools to find and analyze emerging trends. 

Academic Publications

Miriam Steurer (2009), "Extending the Aaron Condition for Alternative Pay-as-You-Go Pension Systems", University of New South Wales Discussion Papers,2009-03.

Miriam Steurer (2009), "Children as Family Public Goods: Some Implications for Fertility", University of New South Wales Discussion Papers, 2009-04.

Miriam Steurer (2009), "Fertility Decisions and the Sustainability of Defined Benefit Pay-as-You-Go Pension Systems", University of New South Wales Discussion Papers, 2009-06. 

Teaching Activity

2000-2003 Teaching under-graduate Micro- and Macroeconomics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2004 Teaching post-graduate Economics at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia