2026 Michael Pfaffermayr: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	41	2183	1972	11	11	153	7553

Overview

Michael Pfaffermayr is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with substantial contributions to both general and specialized subfields, including General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Finance, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

The scholar's work covers a variety of interconnected topics, notably:

Global trade and economics
Economic Policies and Impacts
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Global Financial Crisis and Policies
Global Trade and Competitiveness
International Business and Foreign Direct Investment

Michael Pfaffermayr has coauthored works with several researchers, including Harald Oberhofer, Peter Egger, and Richard Sellner. This suggests collaboration across various studies related to trade and economic modeling.

Their recent papers reflect ongoing engagement with trade economics, modeling, and empirical analysis. Selected publications include:

Trade creation and trade diversion of economic integration agreements revisited: a constrained panel pseudo-maximum likelihood approach, 2020, Review of World Economics
Confidence intervals for the trade cost parameters of cross-section gravity models, 2021, Economics Letters
Cross-sectional Gravity Models, PPML Estimation, and the Bias Correction of the Two-Way Cluster-Robust Standard Errors, 2023, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

The research venues where these works are published demonstrate a wide dissemination of findings in established economic and regional science journals, including:

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique
Review of World Economics
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Economics Letters
Journal of Regional Science

Through their scholarship, they contribute to understanding critical economic mechanisms such as the effects of trade agreements, trade costs, and the use of gravity models for economic analysis. These models are instrumental in quantifying trade flows and assessing policy impacts in the global economy.

Best Publications

Estimating models of complex FDI: Are there third-country effects?

Badi H. Baltagi;Peter Egger;Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr

722
Citations
The proper panel econometric specification of the gravity equation: A three-way model with bilateral interaction effects

Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr

588
Citations
A generalized design for bilateral trade flow models

Badi H. Baltagi;Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr

553
Citations
The impact of bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment

Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr

500
Citations
Distance, trade and FDI: a Hausman–Taylor SUR approach

Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr

398
Citations
Estimating regional trade agreement effects on FDI in an interdependent world

Badi H. Baltagi;Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr;Michael Pfaffermayr

339
Citations
The Hausman test in a Cliff and Ord panel model

Jan Mutl;Michael Pfaffermayr;Michael Pfaffermayr

281
Citations
Foreign outward direct investment and exports in Austrian manufacturing: Substitutes or complements?

Michael Pfaffermayr

222
Citations
Capital Structure, Corporate Taxation and Firm Age*

Michael Pfaffermayr;Matthias Stöckl;Hannes Winner

211
Citations
Why Foreign-owned Firms are Different: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence for Austria

Michael Pfaffermayr;Christian Bellak

204
Citations
The impact of endogenous tax treaties on foreign direct investment: theory and evidence

Peter Egger;Mario Larch;Michael Pfaffermayr;Hannes Winner

178
Citations
A Generalized Spatial Panel Data Model with Random Effects

Badi H. Baltagi;Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr

175
Citations
Foreign direct investment and exports: a time series approach

M. Pfaffermayr

170
Citations
Bilateral effective tax rates and foreign direct investment

Peter Egger;Simon Loretz;Michael Pfaffermayr;Hannes Winner

133
Citations
Foreign Direct Investment and European Integration in the 1990s

Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr

115
Citations
Sectoral adjustment of employment to shifts in outsourcing and trade: evidence from a dynamic fixed effects multinomial logit model

Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr;Andrea Weber

114
Citations
The international fragmentation of Austrian manufacturing: The effects of outsourcing on productivity and wages

Peter Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr;Yvonne Wolfmayr-Schnitzer

99
Citations
The Single Market and Geographic Concentration in Europe

Karl Aiginger;Michael Pfaffermayr

97
Citations
An unbalanced spatial panel data approach to US state tax competition

Peter H. Egger;Michael Pfaffermayr;Hannes Winner

95
Citations
Distance, Trade, and FDI: A Hausman-Taylor Sur Approach

Michael Pfaffermayr;Michael Pfaffermayr;Peter H. Egger;Peter H. Egger

94
Citations
Estimating Regional Trade Agreement Effects on FDI in an Interdependent World

Badi H. Baltagi;Badi H. Baltagi;Peter H. Egger;Peter H. Egger;Michael Pfafermayr

22
Citations
The spatial random effects and the spatial fixed effects model: The Hausman test in a Cliff and Ord panel model

Jan Mutl;Michael Pfaffermayr

16
Citations
Different: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence for Austria *

Michael Pfaffermayr;Christian Bellak

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Egger ETH Zurich

Badi H. Baltagi Syracuse University

Mario Larch University of Bayreuth

Klaus Gugler Vienna University of Economics and Business

Josef Zweimüller University of Zurich

External Links

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