Agnes Kügler is Senior Economist at WIFO and has been working in the Research Group "Industrial Economics, Innovation and
International Competition" 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.
