Sofie R Waltl

I am an Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) engaged in research and teaching. I am affiliated with the Department of Economics and the Research Institute Economics of Inequality (INEQ).

Additionally, I am a research fellow at the Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research (LISER) and a GIZ consultant.

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I hold a PhD in Economics, as well as a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mathematics.

Before moving full-time to WU Vienna, I held positions at LISER (Luxembourg), the ECB (Germany), and the University of Graz (Austria). I had research visits at the University of California Berkeley (US), DIW Berlin (Germany), WU Vienna (Austria) and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). Additionally, I provided consultancy work to the ECB.

My research has been published by Explorations in Economic History, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, Management Science, Real Estate Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, and The Journal of Economic Inequality.

I received various awards and recognitions, and acquired multiple research grants.

A variety of international media outlets have featured my work, incl. Augustin, Die Presse, Der Standard, Kleine Zeitung, Radio Ö1, Schrödingers Katze (Austria), Die Welt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tagesspiegel (Ger- many), D’Lëtzeburger Land, Lëtzebuerger Journal and Research Luxembourg (Luxembourg), The Economist and Central Banking (UK), Chosun Ilbo (South Korea), as well as Radio y Televisión Española (Spain).