Cara Dabrowski

Cara Dabrowski is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw). She is also currently a PhD student at the Université Paris Sorbonne Nord (USPN) working on the topic „Distribution and the role of the state in times of uncertainty“. Her research focuses on the intersections of distribution, fiscal policy, public finances and financialization. 

She holds a master’s degree in Economic Analysis and Policy from Sorbonne Université, l’Université Paris Cité and l’Université de technologie de Compiègne, a master’s degree in International Economics from the Berlin School of Economics and Law and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Research Interests:

  • Post-Keynesian economics
  • Distribution
  • Fiscal policy
  • Empirical macroeconomics 

Publications:

Articles in refereed journals

  • 'A Kaleckian approach to financialization and distribution: Austria and Finland in comparison' (with Sonia Kuhls), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - WuG, 51 (1), April 2025, pp. 79-112 

Shorter papers and comments

  • 'Europe Needs A Public Investment Revolution To Secure Its Economic Future' (with Philipp Heimberger), Social Europe, 22 October 2025
  • 'Vermögen in Wien. Ungleichheit und Öffentliches Eigentum' (with Robert Lasser, Vanessa Lechinger and Severin Rapp), WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. INEQ Research Notes, Vol. 2021, No. 04, 2021 

Other working papers and discussion series

  • 'Endogenous money and inflation: an introductory post-Keynesian/Kaleckian conflict inflation model' (with Eckhard Hein), Post Keynesian Economic Society, Working Paper Series, No. 2522, 2025
  • 'Achieving geoeconomic goals by boosting the economy without raising the public debt ratio? New evidence on the effects of public investment in the European Union' (with Philipp Heimberger), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 99, Vienna, October 2025
  • 'A Kaleckian approach to the financialization– distribution–inflation nexus: Germany and Austria in comparative perspective', Institute for International Political Economy Berlin - IPE, Working Paper, No. 250, 2025 

Contact:

dabrowski(at)wiiw.ac.at

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9284-3856