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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鈦�
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Dr. Sofie R. Waltl is Associate Professor in Real Estate Economics and Finance at the Department of Land Economy, Director of Studies at 黑料网爆吃瓜, and Deputy Director for the PhD in Land Economy. She is also a Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) Fellow at the Judge Business School, and for 2026/27 serves as REF Impact Case Study Lead for the Land Economy Department. She is an applied economist interested in housing markets, economic measurement, and inequality research. She completed her PhD in January 2017.

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), the University of New South Wales (Australia), and the National Bank of Slovakia (NBS). She has also provided consultancy work to the ECB, the Austrian Central Bank (OeNB), and GIZ, and serves on university accreditation panels for the Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education.

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鈥� 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 鈥淓stimating Quantile-Specific Rental Yields for Residential Housing in Sydney鈥� (Regional Science and Urban Economics)
  • 2020 NOeG Young Economist Award by the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) for the article Tracking Owners鈥� Sentiments: Subjective Home Values, Expectations and House Price Dynamics (co-authored with A. Lepinteur)
  • 2017 Award of Excellence 鈥� "Staatspreis f眉r die besten Dissertationen鈥�. 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

    1. (with A. Lepinteur) Tracking Home-Owners鈥� Sentiments: Subjective Indices and Convergent Validity, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2025, 40:706鈥�734.
    2. (with A. Lepinteur, G. Menta) Equal Price for Equal Place? Demand-Driven Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2025, 111(March 2025):104089.
    3. (with R. J. Hill, M. Steurer) Owner Occupied Housing, Inflation, and Monetary Policy, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2025, 57(2-3):583-614.
    4. (with M. D. Naidin, M. Ziegelmeyer) Objective Housing Sales and Rent Prices in Representative Household Surveys: Implications for Wealth, Inequality, Housing Market and Affordability Statistics, Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, 71(1):e12692.
    5. (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.
    6. (with R. Chakraborty) Missing the wealthy in the HFCS: Micro problems with macro implications, The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20(1):169鈥�203.
    7. Wealth Inequality: A Hybrid Approach toward Multidimensional Distributional National Accounts in Europe, Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68(1):74-108.
    8. (with K. A. Kholodilin, L. Limonov) Housing Rent Dynamics and Rent Regulation in St. Petersburg (1880-1917), Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 8:101398.
    9. Variation across price segments and locations: A comprehensive quantile regression analysis of the Sydney housing market, Real Estate Economics, 2019, 47(3):723鈥�756.
    10. Estimating Quantile-Specific Rental Yields for Residential Housing in Sydney, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 68:204鈥�225.
    11. A hedonic house price index in continuous time, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 2016, 9(4):648鈥�670.


     

Subject
Environment, Law, and Economics