Teaching and Supervision

Taster Lecture on Rent Control

Supervision

I am happy to supervise undergraduate, MPhil, MSt and PhD students interested in real estate economics or finance, housing sales or rental markets, inequality, spatial phenomena and questions broadly related to policy evaluation, (behavioral) household finance, experimental studies, methodological and statistical contributions or economic measurement. Contemporary and historical settings welcome.

Students should ideally be able to perform sound empirical and/or theoretical analyses and handle any statistical software (e.g., R, Python, etc.)

Examples of topics chosen by students:

  • Are Homeowners’ Associations a Modern Mechanism for Urban Segregation?
  • Spillover Effects of UK Military Bases on Local Economies and Housing Markets
  • Regulatory, Institutional, and Market Factors in the Growth of Real Estate Security Token Offerings (STOs) in Japan
  • CNN-Driven Analysis of Property Listing Photos
  • The Fukushima catastrophe and British housing prices
  • The Impact of Child Gender on Housing-Related Saving Behaviour in China: Empirical Evidence from Microdata
  • The Impact of Unconventional Monetary Policy on REIT Returns
  • The Price of Snow. Hedonic estimation of the impact of climate change on ski-resort residential real estate in the Alps
  • Feng Shui in Chinese Residential Real Estate: An Empirical Investigation of Its Impact on Property Transaction Prices
  • Impacts of house purchasing restriction policies on residential real estate market in Shanghai
  • Too Big to Burst: Piercing China’s Real Estate Bubble
  • Exploring time-on-market under difficult market conditions in Austria
  • The Elizabeth Line – As impactful as the budget?
  • Rental Market in Berlin: The Effectiveness of the Rent Freeze
  • Origins of Wealth and Wealth Mobility in Austria
  • Analysing the Malaysian Housing Market using Google Trends
  • A Job Guarantee for Germany
  • Inequality and Private Schooling in the United Kingdom
  • How are corruption and inequality related?
  • Democratic Political Engagement: A Statistical Matching Approach
  • Influence of FDI on Political Engagement in the Visegrad Countries
  • Do incomes keep up with house prices? A global comparison
  • Distribution of Education Attainment in the USA
  • Occupational shortages in Austria. An extension of the unemployment-vacancy ratio
  • On the connection between income inequality, human development and corruption perception: A global comparison
  • The differential impact of the Covid-19 shock on employment: Evidence from Austrian microdata
  • The Relation between Financial Literacy and Employment Status in Austria


Teaching

University of Cambridge

  • Paper 4 – Land Economy, Development and Sustainability; Section: Housing, Real Estate, and Investments, BA in Environment, Law, and Economics (L 2026)
  • PhD Seminar Coordinator, PhD in Land Economy
  • RM01 – Research Methods, MPhil in Real Estate Finance, MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration, MPhil in Environmental Policy (M 2024, 2025)
  • RM02 – Further Topics in Quantitative Methods, MPhil in Real Estate Finance, MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration, MPhil in Environmental Policy (L 2024, L 2025, L 2026)
  • DRDS – Dissertation, Research Design and Structure, MPhil in Real Estate Finance (M 2024)
  • Pre-Week: Introduction to Scientific Writing, MPhil in Real Estate Finance (M 2024, 2025)
  • RE04 – The Macroeconomy and Housing, MPhil in Real Estate Finance, MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration, MPhil in Environmental Policy, M 2023)
  • REM2 – Research Methods (Spatial Economic Analysis and Hedonic Modeling), MSt in Real Estate (M 2023)

[M – Michaelmas term, L – Lent term, E – Easter term]

Vienna University of Economics and Business

  • Economic Approaches Towards Inequality and Distribution; International Summer University ISUWU (S 2022, S 2023)
  • Specialization Course – Economics of Distribution; MSc in Economics (W 2020/21, W 2021/22, W 2022/23)
  • Specialization Course – Economics of Distribution; BSc in Business and Economics (W 2020/21, W 2021/22, W 2022/23)
  • Theoretical and Empirical Topics in Economics of the Distribution; BSc in Business and Economics (S 2019)

University of Graz

  • Econometrics II; Tutorial; Economics Bachelor (S 2015, S 2016)
  • Econometrics I; Tutorial; Economics Bachelor (W 2015/16)
  • Crash course “Introduction to Programming with R”; Economics Master (March 2015, Sept 2015)
  • Introduction to Programming with Matlab; Practical; Mathematics Bachelor (W 2011/12)
  • Linear Algebra for Mathematicians; Tutorial; Mathematics Bachelor (W 2010/11)

Graz University of Technology

  • Mathematics I – Calculus; Tutorial and Practical; Introduction course for Engineering subjects, Bachelor (W 2013/14)
  • Mathematics II – Calculus; Tutorial and Practical; Introduction course for Engineering subjects, Bachelor (S 2013)
  • Linear Algebra; Practical; Physics Bachelor (W 2012/13, W 2013/14)

[W – Winter term, S – Summer term]