Research

Refereed Publications

1. Equal Price for Equal Place? Demand-Driven Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market (with Anthony Lepinteur and Giorgia Menta)
2. Objective Housing Sales and Rent Prices in Representative Household Surveys: Implications for Wealth, Inequality, Housing Market and Affordability Statistics (with M. Denisa Naidin and Michael Ziegelmeyer)
3. Forward to the Past: The Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin (with Anja M. Hahn, Konstantin A. Kholodilin and Marco Fongoni)
4. Owner Occupied Housing, Inflation and Monetary Policy (with Robert J. Hill and Miriam Steurer)
5. Tracking Home-Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Indices and Convergent Validity (with Anthony Lepinteur)
6. Missing the wealthy in the HFCS: Micro problems with macro implications (with Robin Chakraborty)
7. Wealth Inequality: A Hybrid Approach toward Multidimensional Distributional National Accounts in Europe
8. Housing Rent Dynamics and Rent Regulation in St. Petersburg (1880–1917) (with Konstantin A. Kholodilin and Leonid E. Limonov)
9. Variation across price segments and locations: A comprehensive quantile regression analysis of the Sydney housing market
10. Estimating Quantile-Specific Rental Yields for Residential Housing in Sydney
11. A hedonic house price index in continuous time

Policy Reports, Proceedings and Other Publications

1. Insights and Learning Points for Policymaking in Rental Markets from the Berlin Rent Freeze, Cambridge University Land Society (CULS) Magazine, Dec 2023, pg. 111.
2. Objectified Housing Sales and Rent Prices in Representative Household Surveys: the Impact on Macroeconomic Statistics, SUERF Policy Brief, No. 432 | 29 Sep 2022 (with M. Denisa Naidin & Michael Ziegelmeyer)
3. Die unmittelbaren Auswirkungen des Berliner Mietendeckels: Wohnungen günstiger, aber schwieriger zu finden, DIW Wochenbericht, 8/2021(2):117–124 (with Anja M. Hahn & Konstantin A. Kholodilin)
4. Distributional National Accounts for Wealth: Measurement Issues and First Results for Austria, Germany, France and Spain, In: The Legacy of Tony Atkinson in Inequality Analysis – Proceedings from the 2018 LIS/LWS User Conference

Working Papers and Advanced Drafts

1. Pay Inequality, Procedural Fairness, and Work Effort: an Experimental Investigation (with Marco Fongoni, Nikola Kilzer and Jasper Hepp)
2. How do monetary policy decisions relate to price changes in housing markets? An assessment of public perceptions across five European countries (with Philipp Poyntner)
3. The Association between Adverse Temperature Shocks and Schooling Outcomes in India (with Sumit Agrawal, Pulak Ghosh and Francesco Scarazzato)
4. A Framework to Monitor the Effects of External Shocks on Housing Markets (with Anja M. Hahn and Sanela Omerovic)
5. Is the ECB’s monetary policy doomed to overshoot? Consequences of omitting owner-occupied housing from the HICP (with Robert J. Hill, Miriam Steurer and Giang Nghiem)
6. Reach me, if you can: How to Boost Participation of Rich Households in Wealth Surveys (with A. Cupak, J. Jurašeková Kucserová, Z. Brokešová and B. Frankovič)

Ongoing Research

1. You Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Choice: Implications of Reforming Real Estate Agent Commission Practices in Austria (with D. Schäfer and A. Huber)
2. The Home Bias & Home Prices: A Rational Hedging Component to Equity Home Bias (with J. Greenwald)

Theses

• Dissertation: Modelling housing markets: Issues in economic measurement
• Master’s thesis: Standardfehler in Negativ Binomialmodellen mit zufälligen Effekten (Standard Errors in Negative Binomial Models with Random Effects)
• Bachelor’s thesis: Modellierung eines Erdwärmesystems zur Bestimmung des geeigneten Abstandes zwischen Erdkollektoren (Modeling a Heat Pump System to Determine the Appropriate Separation between Collectors in the Earth)