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Klaus Prettner is affiliated with the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. Their research primarily spans economics, econometrics, and finance, with a substantial focus on economics and econometrics as a subfield. Additional areas of study include general health professions, sociology and political science, general economics, econometrics and finance, and demography.

Their main research topics incorporate economic growth and productivity, global health care issues, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, fiscal policy and economic growth, firm innovation and growth, employment and welfare studies, and economic theories and models.

Prettner's publication record includes frequent contributions to the SSRN Electronic Journal, The Lancet Global Health, European Economic Review, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and World Development.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Prettner feature:

  • Estimates and Projections of the Global Economic Cost of 29 Cancers in 204 Countries and Territories From 2020 to 2050 (2023, JAMA Oncology)
  • The global economic burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for 204 countries and territories in 2020-50: a health-augmented macroeconomic modelling study (2023, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers (2021, European Economic Review)
  • Climate and the spread of COVID-19 (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • The global macroeconomic burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: estimates and projections for 152 countries or territories (2024, The Lancet Global Health)

Their frequent co-authors include David E. Bloom, Michael Kühn, Simiao Chen, Ana Lucia Abeliansky, and Till Bärnighausen.

Best Publications

  • The Global Economic Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases

    David E. Bloom;Elizabeth Cafiero;Eva Jané-Llopis;Shafika Abrahams-Gessel

  • Estimates and Projections of the Global Economic Cost of 29 Cancers in 204 Countries and Territories From 2020 to 2050

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  • The global macroeconomic burden of road injuries: estimates and projections for 166 countries.

    Simiao Chen;Michael Kuhn;Klaus Prettner;David E Bloom

  • Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

    David E Bloom;David Canning;Rainer Kotschy;Klaus Prettner

  • Population aging and endogenous economic growth

    Klaus Prettner

  • From Burden to "Best Buys": Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    David Bloom;Dan Chisholm;Eva Llopis;Klaus Prettner

  • The past and future of knowledge-based growth

    Holger Strulik;Klaus Prettner;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz

  • The economic burden of chronic diseases: Estimates and projections for China, Japan, and South Korea

    David E. Bloom;Simiao Chen;Michael Kuhn;Mark E. McGovern

  • The macroeconomic burden of noncommunicable diseases in the United States: Estimates and projections.

    Simiao Chen;Michael Kuhn;Klaus Prettner;David E. Bloom

  • Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers

    Astrid Krenz;Klaus Prettner;Klaus Prettner;Holger Strulik

  • Innovation, Automation, and Inequality: Policy Challenges in the Race against the Machine

    Klaus Prettner;Holger Strulik

  • Africa’s Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

    David E. Bloom;Michael Kuhn;Klaus Prettner

  • Declining fertility and economic well-being: do education and health ride to the rescue?

    Klaus Prettner;David E. Bloom;Holger Strulik

  • How can robots affect wage inequality

    Clemens Lankisch;Klaus Prettner;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz

  • The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

    David E. Bloom;Elizabeth T. Cafiero;Mark E. McGovern;Klaus Prettner

  • A NOTE ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF AUTOMATION FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE LABOR SHARE

    Klaus Prettner

  • Automation, stagnation, and the implications of a robot tax

    Emanuel Gasteiger;Klaus Prettner

  • The contribution of female health to economic development

    David E Bloom;Michael Kuhn;Klaus Prettner

  • Automation, stagnation, and the implications of a robot tax

    Emanuel Gasteiger;Klaus Prettner

  • Demographic change in models of endogenous economic growth. A survey

    Klaus Prettner;Klaus Prettner;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Africa's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

    David E. Bloom;David E. Bloom;Michael Kuhn;Klaus Prettner

  • Why it pays off to pay us well: The impact of basic research on economic growth and welfare

    Klaus Prettner;Katharina Werner

  • Automation and demographic change

    Ana Abeliansky;Klaus Prettner

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Bloom
David E. Bloom Harvard University
Holger Strulik
Holger Strulik University of Göttingen
Les Oxley
Les Oxley University of Waikato
David Canning
David Canning Harvard University
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Jesus Crespo Cuaresma
Jesus Crespo Cuaresma Vienna University of Economics and Business
Andreas Pyka
Andreas Pyka University of Hohenheim

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