Katharina Gangl

Dr. Katharina Gangl is a Head of Research Group at Institut für Höhere Studien.
She gained an international reputation as an expert in cooperation between public authorities and citizens and law compliance, in particular tax compliance.
On these subjects, she consulted the OECD, the European Commission, and various tax administrations in the world.
Dr. Katharina Gangl’s empirical research has a strong theoretical foundation and follows a multi-method approach including neuro-, field-, laboratory, and online experiments as well as survey studies, qualitative interview studies, and association techniques.
In these interdisciplinary studies, she examines how control, punishment, fairness, trust, knowledge, or social norms affect tax honesty.
In the last years, Dr. Gangl is particularly interested in the tax compliance of the wealthy.
She publishes most of her widely acknowledged and well-cited research (H index = 14) in peer-review journals, such as the Journal of Political Psychology.
In spring 2019, her book “A research agenda for economic psychology” was published, which she co-edited with Prof.
Erich Kirchler.
She was assigned reviewer positions in dozens of journals and national and international funding agencies, such as in the horizon 2020 program.
Before joining the IHS and Insight Austria, She was an assistant professor at the University of Göttingen, Germany (2017-2019).
Before that, she held research positions at the Zeppelin University, Germany (2015-2016) and the Queensland University of Technology, Australia (2013).
She gained her Diploma (2009) and Ph.D.
degree (2013) at the University of Vienna.