Roman Römisch is Economist at wiiw. His research focuses on regional economic developments and national accounts and macroeconomic analysis. Moreover, he has a strong background in quantitative analysis. He has worked on and also coordinated major European studies on regional economic development, such as Economic Challenges of Lagging Regions (DG Regio, 2015-2016), Establishment of consolidated financial data 1989-2013 (DG Regio, 2015-2016) or WP13 Geography of Expenditures (DG Regio, 2014-2015) – as part of the Ex post evaluation of Cohesion policy programmes 2007-2013. Roman Römisch holds an M.A. degree in Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.