Hans Pitlik is a Research Group Coordinator of the department of Macroeconomics and European Economic Policy and Senior Researcher in Public Economics at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna, Austria. He received a doctoral degree in Economics (1996) and a postdoctoral lecturer qualification (habilitation) in 2004 from the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim (Germany) to which he is also still affiliated. He worked on constitutional economics, fiscal federalism, and on the political economy of market-oriented policy reforms. The focus of his recent research is on determinants of individual attitudes towards economic policies and economic freedom. He has published articles in Public Choice, European Journal of Political Economy, Kyklos, and Public Finance Review.
