Agnes Kügler is Senior Economist at WIFO and has been working in the Research Group "Industrial, Innovation and International
Economics" since 2015. She holds a Master's degree in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna)
and a Master of Science from the Institute for Advances Studies and the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and a doctoral
degree from the WU Vienna. She is responsible for the WIFO Research Seminar "WIFO-Extern", teaches Applied Microeconomics
at WU Vienna and has been deputy member of the Austrian Competition Commission since 2018. Her research focusses on innovation
and structural change, industrial economics and competitiveness. Agnes Kügler has participated in various international and
national projects. Recent research projects have focussed, among others, on the effects of the Single Market and economic
institutions on national competitiveness, the progress of digitisation in Austria and market strategies and location policies
of companies.
