Recent / Upcoming
- New Working Paper: You Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Choice: Real Estate Agent Commission Reform and Austria’s Partial Strict Rent Control Regime
- New Blog Post: Cambridge Housing Voice
- Policy Panel Discussion “Housing Markets, Mortgages, and Regional Differences” part of the conference “Monetary Policy Trade-offs in a Heterogeneous Currency Area” organised by Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) and SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum at the Austrian National Bank, 18-19 June 2026
- Will present our finding on adverse heat and humidity effects on learning in India at the Cambridge Climate and Nature Research Showcase, Cambridge ZERO2, 26 June 2026
- Invited speaker at CERF’s 25th anniversary conference at University of Cambridge, Judge Business School
- Invited seminar speaker at Leibniz University Hannover
- New Role: I’ll act as REF Impact Case Study Lead, responsible for driving, editing, and curating research impact narratives for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for the Land Economy Department.
- Invited seminar speaker at the The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Past News
- Invited seminar speaker at the International Inequalities Institute (III) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- CfP: The 5th Workshop on Residential Housing: Research Frontiers in Climate Risks and Affordability will take place at the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College), 7th-9th of September 2026 (co-organised with Dongxiao Niu) – See the Call for Papers here
- Panel Discussion: “Wohnen ist politisch: Zwischen Wiener Modell und Berliner Protest” (Housing is political: Between the Vienna model and Berlin protest) organised by the Austrian Students’ Association (ÖH) at the University of Vienna, 13 April 2026
- New Working Paper: Pay Inequality, Procedural Fairness, and Work Effort: an Experimental Investigation
- Invited seminar speaker at the Center for Excellence in Finance and Economic Research (CEFER) at the Bank of Lithuania
- Senior Treasurer for the Cambridge University Austrian Society
- Interview: ¿La economía va bien y tú no llegas a fin de mes? Así nos engañan con la inflación
- New Working Paper: The Connection Between Monetary Policy and Housing Prices: Public Perceptions and Expert Communication
- New Working Paper: The Association between Adverse Temperature Shocks and Schooling Outcomes in India: Impact Quantification and Mitigation Potentials
- Received the City of Vienna WU Best Paper Award in December 2025 for the article Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin
- Invited to speak at Murray Edwards College about our study on adverse heat effects on educational outcomes in India
- Invited speaker at the Annual Financial Market and Liquidity (AFML) conference at Corvinus University in Budapest
- Member of the organising committee for the 4th Workshop of Residential Real Estate at University of Zurich
- Postdoc opportunity at the Land Economy department: Research Fellow in Housing Inequality
- New role: Deputy Course Director for the PhD in Land Economy
- Lecture tour (keynote speaker, seminar presentations) in China together with Prof Helen Bao (visiting Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University, Hangzhou City University, Nanjing Agriculture University, Inner Mongolia Agriculture University, Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics)
- Panel Discussion: Addressing wealth inequality and concentration in the EU: data, empirical and analytical challenges, Social Situation Monitor Research Seminar organised by DG EMPL (European Commission)
- 1st Housing Policy Symposium at WU
- Taster Lecture for High School Students on Rent Control
- New publication: the article Equal Price for Equal Place? Demand-Driven Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market has been published by Regional Science and Urban Economics
- New Working Paper: A Framework to Monitor the Effects of External Shocks
on Housing Markets - CfP: 4th Workshop on Residential Housing: Balancing Sustainability and Affordability in the Building Sector
- Invited to give two seminar presentations in Bratislava: the Slovak National Bank and the University of Economics
- Invited to speak at the CERF Cavalcade, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
- Invited to speak at the First Oxford Real Estate Research Conference,
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford - Visiting Researcher at the National Bank of Slovakia
- Panel Discussion: Wohnraum in Wien: Zwischen Teuerung, sozialem Wohnbau und Gentrifizierung, WIPOL Akademie, University of Vienna
- Received the WU-internal Award for Outstanding Research Achievements for the article Owner Occupied Housing, Inflation and Monetary Policy
- Received the WU-internal Star Journal Publication Award for the article Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin
- New blog post: Wie Geldpolitik die Immobilienpreise beeinflusst
- Helen Bao and me are searching for an undergraduate student researcher (Laidlaw scholar) to join a project on Housing and Discrimination — please reach out if interested and feel free to spread the word
- Appointed Fellows’ Steward at Murray Edwards College
- Appointed Deputy Course Director for the MSt in Real Estate offered by the University of Cambridge
- New blog post: Rent Freeze
- Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Review of Income and Wealth
- New draft: The Association between Adverse Temperature Shocks and Schooling Outcomes in India: Impact Quantification and Mitigation Potentials
- New publication: the article Objective Housing Sales and Rent Prices in Representative Household Surveys: Implications for Wealth, Inequality, Housing Market and Affordability Statistics has been published by Review of Income and Wealth
- Invited for a research seminar at the University of Regensburg
- CfP: 3rd WORKSHOP ON RESIDENTIAL HOUSING MARKETS A Market in Distress and Potential Solutions
- Appointed by the Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education to serve at (re-)accreditation panels
- New working paper: Equal Price for Equal Place? Demand-Driven Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market
- Invited for a research seminar at the University of Aberdeen
- Fellow and Director of Studies for Land Economy at Murray Edwards College
- The article Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin has been published by Management Science
- The article Owner-Occupied Housing, Inflation, and Monetary Policy was published by the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
- New job: In autumn, I will move to the University of Cambridge as University Assistant Professor in Real Estate Economics and Finance at the Department of Land Economy
- In the press: Wie die Corona-Pandemie Österreichs Immobilienmarkt beeinflusst hat
- The article Tracking Home-Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Indices and Convergent Validity was published by the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
- In the press: Gerechtigkeitscheck: Muss Erben teurer werden?
- In the press: Vermögenskonzentration präziser einschätzen
- A SUERF policy brief was published summarizing the article “Objectified Housing Sales and Rent Prices in Representative Household Surveys: the Impact on Macroeconomic Statistics”
- Interview for the blog “Schrödingers Katze”: Die reichsten 20 Prozent besitzen 80 Prozent des Vermögens
- WU Researcher of the month
- The article Missing the wealthy in the HFCS: micro problems with macro implications was published by The Journal of Economic Inequality
- New working paper: Objectified Housing Sales and Rent Prices in Representative Household Surveys: the Impact on Macroeconomic Statistics
- Interview by Ursula Hofbauer part of the project #EchtzeitExperiment: Was soll mit unserem Steuergeld passieren?
- CfP: Workshop on Residential Housing Markets: Perceptions and Measurement
- A majorly revised version of the article Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin appeared as updated working paper
- I’m looking for PhD candidates interested in real estate economics to be hired at WU Vienna – check out details here
- I’m looking for research assistants for conducting online experiments to be hired at WU Vienna – check out details here
- Anthony Lepinteur and me received the Nancy and Richard Ruggles Memorial Prize at the 2021 meeting of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) for our article Tracking Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Home Values, Expectations and House Price Dynamics
- The article Wealth Inequality: A Hybrid Approach toward Multidimensional Distributional National Accounts in Europe was published by Review of Income and Wealth
- The article Housing Rent Dynamics and Rent Regulation in St. Petersburg (1880–1917) was published by Explorations in Economic History
- Policy brief: Die unmittelbaren Auswirkungen des Berliner Mietendeckels: Wohnungen günstiger, aber schwieriger zu finden
- New working paper: Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin
- In the press: “Das radikale Mietgesetz in Berlin und seine Folgen”, Die Presse, 30.11.2020 [online/print]
- New working paper: Owner Occupied Housing, Inflation and Monetary Policy
- I was awarded the Yu Chen Memorial Publication Prize for the article Estimating Quantile-Specific Rental Yields for Residential Housing in Sydney by the University of Graz, Department of Economics
- New working paper: Tracking Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Home Values, Expectations and House Price Dynamics
- New working paper: Multidimensional Wealth Inequality: A Hybrid Approach toward Distributional National Accounts in Europe
- I am currently searching for a research assistant. Details here
- Anthony Lepinteur and me received the NOEG Young Economist Award for our article Tracking Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Home Values, Expectations and House Price Dynamics
- I jumped in for the roundtable discussion Macroprudential Policy and the Hosing Market organized by the University of Luxembourg (School of Finance) and Ernst & Young on 9 March 2020.
- I was appointed to the Advisory Committee Economic Symposium at the European Forum Alpbach
Sofie R Waltl 