[Back]
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Gerhard Sorger
Gerhard Sorger
T: +43-1-4277-37443
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/gerhard.sorger/
Summer term 2025
040015 KU Economic Growth (BA)
040040 UK Social Choice (MA)
040054 SE OMDS/VGSE Research Seminar in Macroeconomics (MA)
040078 VO STEOP: Grundzüge der Volkswirtschaftslehre
Winter term 2024
040158 KU Macroeconomics for Economics and Finance (MA)
040168 KU Topics in Economic Policy (MA)
040216 VO Makroökonomie (MA)
Summer term 2024
040015 KU Economic Growth (BA)
040040 UK Social Choice (MA)
040078 VO STEOP: Grundzüge der Volkswirtschaftslehre
040231 UK SOLV - Economics of Happiness: How we measure our wealth
Sorger, G. (2024). Discounted dynamic optimization and Bregman divergence. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 110, Article 102935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2023.102935
Sorger, G., & Kalk, A. (2023). Climate policy under political pressure. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 122, Article 102900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102900
Sorger, G. (2021). On the consumption-saving tradeoff under non-exponential discounting and partial commitment. Pure and applied functional analysis, 6(4), 857-870.
Sorger, G. (2020). Wir müssen Spaß am Denken vermitteln. Kleine Zeitung.
Sorger, G. (2020). On the dynamics of stock price bubbles: Comments on a model by Miao and Wang. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 28(2), 521-537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-019-00650-z
Sorger, G. (2019). Bubbles and cycles in the Solow-Swan model. Journal of Economics / Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 127(3), 193-221. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-018-0638-9
Dasgupta, P., Mitra, T., & Sorger, G. (2019). Harvesting the commons. Environmental and Resource Economics, 72(3), 613–636. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-018-0221-4
Sorger, G. (2019). Endogenous credit constraints: the role of informational non-uniqueness. Vienna Economics Papers No. 1903 https://homepage.univie.ac.at/Papers.Econ/RePEc/vie/viennp/vie1903.pdf
Iwasa, K., & Sorger, G. (2018). Periodic solutions of the one-sector growth model: the role of income effects. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 78, 59-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2018.07.008
Sorger, G. (2018). On the dynamics of stock price bubbles: Comments on a model by Miao and Wang. Working paper / The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) No. 1803 https://homepage.univie.ac.at/Papers.Econ/RePEc/vie/viennp/vie1803.pdf
Sorger, G., Gersbach, H., & Amon, C. (2018). Hierarchical growth: basic and applied research. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 90, 434-459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2018.03.007
Sorger, G. (2018). Cycles and chaos in the one-sector growth model with elastic labor supply. Economic Theory, 65(1), 55-77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-016-1005-0
Pichler, P., & Sorger, G. (2018). Delegating climate policy to a supranational authority: a theoretical assessment. European Economic Review, 101, 418-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.10.014
Sorger, G. (2018). Capital price bubbles and dynamic inefficiency. Working paper / The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) No. 1802 http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Papers.Econ/RePEc/vie/viennp/vie1802.pdf
Pichler, P., & Sorger, G. (2016). The value of commitment and delegation for the control of greenhouse gas emissions. Vienna Economics Papers No. No.1604 http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Papers.Econ/RePEc/vie/viennp/vie1604.pdf
Dasgupta, P., Mitra, T., & Sorger, G. (2016). Harvesting the Commons. Working paper / The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) No. 1608 http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Papers.Econ/RePEc/vie/viennp/vie1608.pdf
Sorger, G. (2016). Multiplicity of balanced growth paths in an endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply. In H. Dawid, K. Dörner, G. Feichtinger, P. Kort, & A. Seidl (Eds.), Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making: Essays in Honor of Richard F. Hartl (pp. 189-200). Springer.
Sorger, G. (2015). Cycles and chaos in the one-sector growth model with elastic labor supply. Vienna Economics Papers No. No. 1505 http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Papers.Econ/RePEc/vie/viennp/vie1505.pdf
Sorger, G. (2015). Dynamic Economic Analysis: Deterministic Models in Discrete Time. Cambridge University Press.
Mitra, T., & Sorger, G. (2015). Noncooperative resource exploitation by patient players. Dynamic Games and Applications, 5(3), 361 - 377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13235-015-0135-5

On the effect of anticipation under lack of commitment

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

18 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Discounted dynamic optimization and Bregman divergence

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

4 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Climate policy under political pressure

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

23 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Climate policy under political pressure

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

12 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Climate policy under political pressure

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

20 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Endogenous credit constraints and equilibrium indeterminacy

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

4 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Endogenous credit constraints and equilibrium indeterminacy

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

26 Apr 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Endogenous credit constraints: the role of informational non-uniqueness

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

5 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

On the implications of collateral constraints

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

15 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Ramsey model with heterogeneous time-preference: a selective survey

Gerhard Sorger (Keynote speaker)

6 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Bubbles and cycles in the Solow-Swan model

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

5 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Capital price bubbles and dynamic inefficiency

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

20 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Delegating climate policy to a suprannational authority: a theoretical assessment

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

4 Sept 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Delegating climate policy to a suprannational authority: a theoretical assessment

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

6 Jul 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Multiplicity of balanced growth paths in an endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

14 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Zyklen und Chaos im Ein-Sektor Wachstumsmodell mit elastischem Arbeitsangebot

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

22 Apr 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Cycles and chaos in the one-sector growth model with elastic labor supply

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

10 Feb 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Inverse problems and rationalizability in economic growth theory

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

25 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Non-cooperative resource exploitation by patient players

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

14 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

On a class of spatial growth models

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

12 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

On Ramsey's conjecture

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

24 Apr 2014

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

On Ramsey's conjecture

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

24 Jul 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

On Ramsey's conjecture

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

6 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Time-preference and intertemporal choice in economics

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

18 Mar 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Central bank independence and the monetary instrument problem

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

21 Nov 2012

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Central bank independence and the monetary instrument problem

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

10 Jul 2012

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Rationalizability in Optimal Growth Theory

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

2 Feb 2011

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Intergenerational equity and stationarity

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

28 Sept 2010

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Intergenerational equity and stationarity

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

14 May 2010

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Generationengerechtigkeit und stationäre Präferenzen

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

7 May 2010

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Inflation dynamics under optimal discretionary fiscal and monetary policies

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

23 Nov 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Hierarchical growth: basic and applied research

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

12 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Some notes on discount factor restrictions for dynamic optimization problems

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

19 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Optimal fiscal and monetary policy without commitment

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

16 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Heterogeneous time-preference and the long-run distribution of wealth: Attempts to address the Ramsey conjecture

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

8 May 2008

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

21 Apr 2008

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

7 Apr 2008

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

31 Mar 2008

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

6 Oct 2007

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

23 Jun 2007

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Strategic saving decisions in the infinite-horizon model

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

22 May 2006

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Strategic saving decisions in the infinite-horizon model

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

27 Mar 2006

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Department of Economics

Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
1090 Wien
Room: 05.340

T: +43-1-4277-37443

gerhard.sorger@univie.ac.at