Research Interests

Economic Growth, Economics of Innovation, Digitization and Automation, Population Economics, Public Economics

Dr. Andreas Irmen is Professor of Macroeconomics and Applied Microeconomics at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg (since September 2010). Previously, he was Professor of Economics (Chair of Economic Policy – Macroeconomics) at the Ruprecht-Karls-8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Heidelberg (2006 – 2010), Germany, Professor of Economics at the Free 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Bolzano (2005 – 2006), Italy, and Assistant Professor at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Mannheim, Germany. He is affiliated with the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), Munich. Andreas Irmen received his Ph.D. in Economics from the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Lausanne, Switzerland. He held the position of a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics of Brown 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (2018), at the Paris School of Economics, Paris, France (2017), and at ESCEM, School of Business and Management, Poitiers, France (2003 and 2004), and at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (2000). He was visiting scholar at the Department of Economics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, in 2008, at the Department of Economics, Harvard 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ (2001 – 2002), Cambridge, USA, and at the Carl Melchior Minerva Center for Macroeconomics and Growth, Hebrew 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ (2000), Jerusalem, Israel. His areas of research include Economic Growth, the Economics of Innovation, Digitization and Automation, Population Economics, and Public Economics. A particular focus is on the Economics of Economic Growth. Andreas Irmen has published widely in top academic journals such as the Journal of Economic Theory, the International Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, the European Economic Review, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and the Harvard Business Review.

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