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Sofie R Waltl
Fellow

Sofie R Waltl

Official Fellow; Director of Studies

Address
Department of Land Economy , 16-21 Silver St Cambridge CB3 9EP
Contact
Sw2123@cam.ac.uk⁠
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Sofie Waltl is Assistant Professor in Real Estate Economics and Finance at the Department of Land Economy and Director of Studies at 鶹Ƶ. She is an applied economist interested in housing markets, economic measurement, and inequality research.

Before joining the University of Cambridge, she had held positions at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research (LISER), the European Central Bank (Germany), and the University of Graz (Austria). Additionally, she had research visits at the University of California Berkeley (US), DIW Berlin (Germany), WU Vienna (Austria), the National University of Singapore (Singapore), the University of Queensland (Australia) and the University of New South Wales (Australia). Additionally, she has provided consultancy work to the ECB and GIZ.

Her research has been published in various academic journals including Explorations in Economic History, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Management Science, Real Estate Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, The Journal of Economic Inequality and The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Additionally, she has successfully applied for competitive research grants, has been awarded several prices and recognitions, and media outlets worldwide have quoted her research.

Research Interests 

Housing markets, rental markets, economic measurement, inequalities and macro-micro linkages.

Awards and Prizes 

  • 2022 Researcher of the Month, Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • 2021 Nancy and Richard Ruggles Memorial Prize by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) for the article Tracking Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Home Values, Expectations and House Price Dynamics (co-authored with A. Lepinteur)
  • 2020 Yu Chen Memorial Publication Prize by the University of Graz Economics Department for the article “Estimating Quantile-Specific Rental Yields for Residential Housing in Sydney” (Regional Science and Urban Economics)
  • 2020 NOeG Young Economist Award by the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) for the article Tracking Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Home Values, Expectations and House Price Dynamics (co-authored with A. Lepinteur)
  • 2017 Award of Excellence – "Staatspreis für die besten Dissertationen“. The price is awarded annually by the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Economy recognizing the 40 best doctoral dissertations completed during an academic year at any Austrian university and covers any subject

Authored work

  • (with D. N. Naidin, M. H. Ziegelmeyer) Objective Housing Sales and Rent Prices in Representative Household Surveys: Implications for Wealth, Inequality, Housing Market, and Affordability Statistics, 2024,  

     

    (with A. M. Hahn, K. A. Kholodilin, M. Fongoni) Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin, Management Science, 2024, 70 (3), 1901-1923.  

     

    (with R. J. Hill, M. Steurer) Owner Occupied Housing, Inflation and Monetary Policy, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2023,   

     

    (with A. Lepinteur) Tracking Home-Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Indices and Convergent Validity, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2023,  

     

    (with R. Chakraborty) Missing the wealthy in the HFCS: Micro problems with macro implications, The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20(1):169–203.   

     

    Wealth Inequality: A Hybrid Approach toward Multidimensional Distributional National Accounts in Europe, Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68(1):74-108.  

     

    (with K. A. Kholodilin, L. Limonov) Housing Rent Dynamics and Rent Regulation in St. Petersburg (1880-1917), Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 8:101398.  

     

    Variation across price segments and locations: A comprehensive quantile regression analysis of the Sydney housing market, Real Estate Economics, 2019, 47(3):723–756. 

Subject
Land Economy