Katarina Zigova joined the Population and Climate Change Program in July 2005.

Ms. Zigova graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Comenius University of Bratislava in 2000 specializing in the mathematics of economics and finance. From 2000 to 2002, she attended a two-year postgraduate program at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna, where she earned a diploma in economics. Afterwards she took on a four-month internship at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna. Since 2003 she has worked as a consultant in econometric and statistical data modeling and analysis at UNIDO, as well as in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bratislava, and at the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID). In 2008 she joined a Doctoral Programme in Quantitaive Economics and Finance at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Ms. Zigova's research interests include models for categorical and limited dependent variables, clustering analysis, and frontier and panel data models in economics.

Phone: +43 2236 807 428
Fax: +43 2236 71 313
Room: S-119
Email: zigova@iiasa.ac.at

Mail address:
Population and Climate Change
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Schlossplatz 1
A-2361 Laxenburg
Austria

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Last updated: 04 May 2009