Monika Merz is Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna. She is an expert in macroeconomics. Recent publications are in the Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics. Monika Merz has been a Research Fellow at CEPR and IZA@Liser and a member of the Austrian Academy of Science. She earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University (1994) under the supervision of Dale Mortensen and Larry Christiano. Prior to joining the University of Vienna, she held positions at the University of Bonn and Rice University in Houston.

Her current research explores the role of preference heterogeneity for spousal time allocation and that of risk preferences for occupational choice and wealth inequality.