The Institute's research interests include substantial areas of applied and basic research for the economy: design and implementation of computer management systems, development and application of the latest information and communication technologies, digital economy, knowledge management, computer-aided management decisions, micro-, meso- and macroeconomic and financial applications of modern econometric, mathematical and statistical tools, as well as primary research in optimising economic decisions, programming and mathematical economics. The Institute of Informatics and Quantitative Economics is home to 70 research and teaching staff members, 2 PhD students and 2 administrative employees.