Philipp Koch

@philippmkoch

Economist | Head of Data Science @Eco_Austria | Affiliate Member and PhD from @LearningCCL @UT1Capitole | Lecturer @WU_Econ

Wien / Toulouse

Joined March 2014

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Philipp Koch@philippmkoch · Sep 17

📢New paper in PNAS! How rich was Vienna at the time of Mozart or Tuscany at the time of Michelangelo? Historical GDPs per capita are scarce, leaving this unanswered. Here, we provide new estimates using machine learning to augment historical GDPs per capita. /1 🧵

philippmkoch's tweet image. 📢New paper in PNAS!

How rich was Vienna at the time of Mozart or Tuscany at the time of Michelangelo? Historical GDPs per capita are scarce, leaving this unanswered.

Here, we provide new estimates using machine learning to augment historical GDPs per capita. /1 🧵

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Center for Collective Learning@LearningCCL · Jul 25

What do fame, historical GDP, and gender equality in science have in common? They were all explored by our colleagues at @IC2S2 2025! 👏Congratulations to @philippmkoch for winning the Best Parallel Talk award this year, and huge thanks to @zappala_chiara & @mel2kill for their…

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César A. Hidalgo@cesifoti · Jul 15

We just completed the Conference on Economic Complexity (CEC)—three days packed with activities, including a summer school and conference with keynotes by Corinne Autant-Bernard and Ernest Miguelez. Some clear themes emerged this year at CEC. There was quite some work on…

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Philipp Koch@philippmkoch · Jul 11

Always good to be back in Toulouse! At the 2nd Conference on Economic Complexity by @LearningCCL, I presented our ongoing research on how #AI adoption influences export performance, using granular microdata on Austrian firms. @Eco_Austria

philippmkoch's tweet image. Always good to be back in Toulouse! At the 2nd Conference on Economic Complexity by @LearningCCL, I presented our ongoing research on how #AI adoption influences export performance, using granular microdata on Austrian firms.

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Philipp Koch@philippmkoch · Jul 1

🚨 Two weeks left to submit to our special session at GEOINNO in Budapest next year! Find all details here: geoinno2026.com/session/s12-bi… @cesifoti @ViktorStojkoski

PPhilipp Koch@philippmkoch · May 12

📢 Call for Papers: Special Session on Big Data and Machine Learning for Economic Geography! Join us (@cesifoti, @ViktorStojkoski and yours truly) at the GEOINNO Conference in Budapest in January 2026 (@geoinno2026)! Submit your paper or Extended Abstract until July 14! 💪

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César A. Hidalgo@cesifoti · Jun 24

NEW PAPER: The Theory of Economic Complexity The Economic Complexity Index or ECI is a widely used empirical tool with an unclear theoretical basis. In this paper, we change that by formally deriving ECI for several production functions and showing what it really does. In a…

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César A. Hidalgo@cesifoti · Jun 18

What is the geography of your academic impact? rankless.org/countries/chl Today @endremborza released new maps in Rankless. Explore the origin of citations for 3.8M+ scholars, 29k+ institutions, & 100s of countries. Try them & let us know what should be our next feature.

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Johannes Wachs@johannes_wachs · Jun 11

How much code now comes from AI? In new work with @simone_daniotti, @xiangnan_feng & @FrankNeffke we estimate that by end-2024 about 30% of Python functions pushed by US devs on GitHub are AI- generated. Adoption is rapid but diffusion lags globally. How did we do it?

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