Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Gerhard Sorger
Gerhard Sorger
Summer term 2024
040231 UK SOLV - Economics of Happiness: How we measure our wealth













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


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.




Discounted dynamic optimization and Bregman divergence

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

4 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Climate policy under political pressure

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

23 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Climate policy under political pressure

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

12 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Climate policy under political pressure

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

20 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Endogenous credit constraints and equilibrium indeterminacy

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

4 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Endogenous credit constraints and equilibrium indeterminacy

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

26 Apr 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Endogenous credit constraints: the role of informational non-uniqueness

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

5 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


On the implications of collateral constraints

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

15 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Gerhard Sorger (Keynote speaker)

6 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Bubbles and cycles in the Solow-Swan model

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

5 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Capital price bubbles and dynamic inefficiency

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

20 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Delegating climate policy to a suprannational authority: a theoretical assessment

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

4 Sep 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Delegating climate policy to a suprannational authority: a theoretical assessment

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

6 Jul 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

14 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zyklen und Chaos im Ein-Sektor Wachstumsmodell mit elastischem Arbeitsangebot

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

22 Apr 2016

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

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

10 Feb 2016

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Inverse problems and rationalizability in economic growth theory

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

25 Nov 2015

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Non-cooperative resource exploitation by patient players

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

14 May 2015

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On a class of spatial growth models

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

12 Feb 2015

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On Ramsey's conjecture

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

24 Apr 2014

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On Ramsey's conjecture

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

24 Jul 2013

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On Ramsey's conjecture

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

6 Jun 2013

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Time-preference and intertemporal choice in economics

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

18 Mar 2013

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Central bank independence and the monetary instrument problem

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

21 Nov 2012

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Central bank independence and the monetary instrument problem

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

10 Jul 2012

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Rationalizability in Optimal Growth Theory

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

2 Feb 2011

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Intergenerational equity and stationarity

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

28 Sep 2010

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Intergenerational equity and stationarity

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

14 May 2010

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Generationengerechtigkeit und stationäre Präferenzen

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

7 May 2010

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Inflation dynamics under optimal discretionary fiscal and monetary policies

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

23 Nov 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Hierarchical growth: basic and applied research

Gerhard Sorger (Invited speaker)

12 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Some notes on discount factor restrictions for dynamic optimization problems

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

19 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Optimal fiscal and monetary policy without commitment

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

16 Jul 2008

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

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

8 May 2008

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Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

21 Apr 2008

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Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

7 Apr 2008

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Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

31 Mar 2008

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Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

6 Oct 2007

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Horizontal innovations with endogenous quality choice

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

23 Jun 2007

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Strategic saving decisions in the infinite-horizon model

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

22 May 2006

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Strategic saving decisions in the infinite-horizon model

Gerhard Sorger (Speaker)

27 Mar 2006

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