Michael Miess joined Environment Agency Austria (EAA) as a senior ecological macroeconomist in March 2021. Before this, Michael was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) and previously at the Research Group Macroeconomics and Economic Policies of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna (IHS), and the Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) program of the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
On the method side, Michael is focused on macroeconomic modelling (agent-based, input-output, stock-flow consistent, and general equilibrium models), modelling the low-carbon transition, linking financial and real economy in formal economic modelling, as well as financialization and its relation to sustainable economic development and distributional issues. He has coordinated several national and international research and modelling projects with partners across Europe.
Michael has been researching a wide range of topics, including ecological macroeconomics, empirical agent-based modelling (ABM) and forecasting, empirical stock-flow consistent (SFC) macroeconomic modelling, DSGE and CGE modelling, endogenous credit-driven financial cycles, energy and environmental economics, bioeconomy transition pathways, and smoothing the low-carbon transition. Michael’s PhD thesis was concerned with expanding the technological frontier of macroeconomic empirical agent-based modelling. The main aim of his research is to uncover the macroeconomic determinants for a successful social-ecological transformation to a low or even zero carbon economy by mid-century.”