Works in Progress
A. Working Papers
Inheritance Tax Reliefs: Time for Reform?
Joint with Arun Advani (Warwick), Andy Summers and James Forrester (LSE). CenTax Policy Paper 2024.
Understanding the Distribution of Wealth at Death: A Probate Based Approach
Joint with Severin Rapp (Stone Center, CUNY).
INEQ Working Paper 31/2024, WU Vienna. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper 90, 2024.Most recent version: World Inequality Lab Working Paper 20/2024.
On Top of the Top - A Generalized Approach to the Estimation of Wealth Distributions
Joint with M. Ertl, E. List, P. Mokre and M. Schnetzer. Most Recent Version
The European Rich-List Database (ERLDB) compiled for this project is available here. In terms of the coverage of countries and years, it is the most comprehensive collection of such lists. It is also the first systematic compilation of rich lists.
Previous version is available as INEQ Working Paper #20
Presented at (selected): International Association for Research on Income and Wealth (IARIW; virtual), Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (LSE / virtual), Annual Congress of the International Institute for Public Finance (invited special session on The Super-Rich; virtual), InGrid Workshop on Recent Advances in Poverty and Inequality Research (virtual), Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (virtual).
The Three Tales of Income Inequality in the United States: Linking National, Regional, and Spatial Income Inequality
Joint with M. Moser.
Presented at: Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at CUNY Seminar (invited), University of Luxembourg (inivited), ERSA Summer School on Spatial Inequality, ERSA Congress, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, Workshop on Regional Economic Inequalities, University of Evry - Paris Saclay, Tenth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, RC28 Summer Meeting 2023 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).
B. Selected Works In Progress
Unraveling the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in Austria
Joint with Alice Kügler, CEU, and Moritz Hörl, WU Vienna, Petra Sauer, Freiburg University, and Anna Schwarz, CEU.
The Good-Council for Redistribution
Joint with Lukas Lehner (Oxford), Severin Rapp, (OECD), Martin Haselmayer (Foresight Institute), and Franziska Windisch (University of Vienna). ).
Estate Taxation and Tax Planning
Joint with Arun Advani (Warwick) and Andy Summers, (LSE).
Returns to Class. Capital Ownership and Returns to Education
Joint with Emanuel List and Patrick Mokre.
Presented at: Tenth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
The Effect of Macro-Disaster Events on Income and Wealth Inequality.
Joint with Salvatore Morelli and Giacomo Rella.
Presented at: International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics - LSE/LIS Inaugural Conference.
Housing Wealth and the Welfare State
Joint with Sofie Waltl and Emanuel List.
Presented at: Lofoten International Forum on Inequality and Taxation.