Margit Waltraud Schratzenstaller-Altzinger

Dr. Margit W.
Schratzenstaller-Altzinger is a Senior Economist at Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
She has worked in the Research Group “Macroeconomics and European Economic Policy” since 2003; she was Deputy Director of WIFO from 2006 to 2008 and 2015 to 2019.
She is a member of the Austrian Fiscal Council and the ÖGfE – the Austrian Society for European Politics, a lecturer at the University of Vienna, member of the board of trustees of the European Forum Alpbach and the KDZ – Centre for Administrative Research.
Her areas of expertise include (European) tax and budget policy, EU budget, tax competition and harmonisation, fiscal federalism as well as family policy, and gender budgeting.
She was a deputy coordinator of the FP7 EU project WWWforEurope (2012-2016) and partner in the H2020 EU project FairTax (2015-2019) and she has prepared studies for the European Parliament and the European Commission as well as national clients.
She spent research stays at the German Institute for Economic Research Berlin, the Free University Berlin, and the Berlin School of Economics and Law.
After studying economics at the Universities of Gießen (Dipl.-Oec., doctorate) and Milwaukee (MA (Econ)), she was a post-doc at the DFG-funded Research Training Group “Future of the European Social Model” at the University of Göttingen.