Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Vienna
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Education and professional career

1979 - 1984	Studies in Technical Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Vienna
1984 - 1986	Doctoral studies in Technical Mathematics at the Technical University of Vienna
1985 - 1991	Research Assistant at the Department for Econometrics, Operations Research, and Systems Theory, Technical University of Vienna
1989	Postdoc at the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, (one year)
1991 - 1999	Assistant Professor respectively Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Vienna, with the following exception:
1996 - 1997	Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, McGill University, and Visiting Researcher at CIRANO in Montreal (one year)
1999 - 2003	Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Queen Mary University of London
since 2003	Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Vienna

Awards and grants

• Promotio Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae (The Federal President of the Republic of Austria), 1986
• Erwin Schrödinger research grant (Austrian Science Fund), 1996-1997
• Figdor-Prize for Law, Social Sciences, and Economics (Austrian Academy of Sciences), 1999
• FWF Project P17886 “Economic growth models with strategic saving decisions” (Austrian Science Fund), 2005-2007
• FWF Project P19686 “Strategic policy interactions in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models” (Austrian Science Fund), 2007-2009
  

Editorial boards

• International Game Theory Review (since 1999)
• Springer Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (2000-2002)
• Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (since 2001)
• Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (since 2003)
• Journal of Economics (since 2005).
  

Selected publications

1. G. Feichtinger, A. Luhmer, G. Sorger: „Optimal price and advertising policy for a convenience goods retailer”, Marketing Science 7 (1988), 187-201.
2. G. Sorger: „On the optimality and stability of competitive paths in continuous time growth models”, Journal of Economic Theory 48 (1989), 526-547.
3. G. Sorger: „The saddle point property in Hamiltonian systems”, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 148 (1990), 191-201.
4. G. Sorger: „Maximum principle for control problems with uncertain horizon and variable discount rate”, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 70 (1991), 607-618.
5. G. Sorger: „On the minimum rate of impatience for complicated optimal growth paths”, Journal of Economic Theory 56 (1992), 160-179.
6. G. Sorger: „Convexity and sunspots: another remark”, Journal of Economic Theory 60 (1993), 439-442.
7. G. Sorger: „On the structure of Ramsey equilibrium: cycles, indeterminacy, and sunspots”, Economic Theory 4 (1994), 745-764.
8. G. Sorger: „On the sensitivity of optimal growth paths”, Journal of Mathematical Economics 24 (1995), 353-369.
9. E. J. Dockner, G. Sorger: „Existence and properties of equilibria for a dynamic game on productive assets”, Journal of Economic Theory 71 (1996), 209-227.
10. G. Sorger: „Markov-perfect Nash equilibria in a class of resource games”, Economic Theory 11 (1998), 79-100.
11. C. Hommes, G. Sorger: „Consistent expectations equilibria”, Macroeconomic Dynamics 2 (1998), 287-321.
12. T. Mitra, G. Sorger: „Rationalizing policy functions by dynamic optimization”, Econometrica 67 (1999), 375-392.
13. J. Hofbauer, G. Sorger: „Perfect foresight and equilibrium selection in symmetric potential games”, Journal of Economic Theory 85 (1999), 1-23.
14. G. Sorger: „Income and wealth distribution in a simple model of growth”, Economic Theory 16 (2000), 23-42.
15. V. Bala, G. Sorger: „A spatio-temporal model of human capital accumulation”, Journal of Economic Theory 96 (2001), 153-179.
16. G. Sorger: „On the long-run distribution of capital in the Ramsey model“, Journal of Economic Theory 105 (2002), 226-243.
17. G. Sorger: „Policy rule Nash equilibria“, Canadian Journal of Economics 36 (2003), 973-992.
18. G. Sorger: “A dynamic common property resource problem with amenity value and extraction costs”, International Journal of Economic Theory 1 (2005), 3-19.
19. G. Sorger: „Active and passive monetary policy in an overlapping generations model“, Review of Economic Dynamics 8 (2005), 731-748.
20. N.V. Long, G. Sorger: “Insecure property rights and growth: the role of appropriation costs, wealth effects, and heterogeneity”, Economic Theory 28 (2006), 513-529.
21. G. Sorger: “Recursive Nash bargaining over a productive asset”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 30 (2006), 2637-2659.
22. G. Sorger: “Strategic saving decisions in the infinite-horizon model”, Economic Theory, forthcoming.