Dr. Mathias Moser

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Mathias Moser is post-doc assistant at the Institute for Economic Geography and associated researcher at INEQ. Previously, was a research associate at the institute for macroeconomics at WU. After his diploma he completed his doctorate with a focus on Bayesian econometrics at WU in February 2015, was a short-term consultant for the World Bank and worked in various projects, among others associated with Statistik Austria, OeNB and the European Commission. His research interests focus on geographic inequalities, segregation, and measurement of inequality.

Expertise

Household Finance and Consumption Survey
(Spatial) econometric methods

Taching in the ongoing semester

Mathias Moser in Summer term 2022

Publications

Journal article

2022	Jestl, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Raggl, Anna. 2022. Cannot keep up with the Joneses: how relative deprivation pushes internal migration in Austria. International Journal of Social Economics. 49 (2) Read more
2022	Theine, Hendrik, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2022. Emissions inequality: Disparities in income, expenditure, and the carbon footprint in Austria. Ecological Economics. 197 107435 Read more
2021	Essletzbichler, Jürgen, Moser, Mathias, Derndorfer, Judith, Staufer-Steinnocher, Petra. 2021. Spatial variation in populist right voting in Austria, 2013¿2017. Political Geography. 90 1-11. Read more
2018	Hofmarcher, Paul, Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus, Humer, Stefan, Grün, Bettina, Moser, Mathias. 2018. Bivariate jointness measures in Bayesian Model Averaging: Solving the conundrum. Journal of Macroeconomics. 57 150-165. Read more
2018	Essletzbichler, Jürgen, Disslbacher, Franziska, Moser, Mathias. 2018. The victims of neoliberal globalisation and the rise of the populist vote: a comparative analysis of three recent electoral decisions. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 11 (1), 73-94. Read more
2017	Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2017. The Income-Inequality Nexus in a Developed Country. Small-scale regional evidence from Austria. Regional Studies 51 (3), 454-466. Read more
2016	Asamer, Eva-Maria, Astleithner, Franz, Cetkovic, Predrag, Humer, Stefan, Lenk, Manuela, Moser, Mathias, Rechta, Henrik. 2016. Quality assessment for register-based statistics - Results for the Austrian census 2011. Austrian Journal of Statistics, 45 (2), 3-14. Read more
2016	Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus, Grün, Bettina, Hofmarcher, Paul, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Unveiling Covariate Inclusion Structures In Economic Growth Regressions Using Latent Class Analysis. European Economic Review, 81, 189-202. Read more
2015	Schnetzer, Matthias, Astleithner, Franz, Cetkovic, Predrag, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela. 2015. Quality Assessment of Imputations in Administrative Data. Journal of Official Statistics, 31 (2), 231-247. Read more
2015	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2015. Socioeconomic structures of the Austrian wealth distribution. Empirica, 42 (2), 269-289. Read more
2014	Moser, Mathias, Hofmarcher, Paul. 2014. Model Priors revisited: Interaction terms in BMA Growth Applications. Journal of Applied Econometrics 29 (2): S. 344-347. Read more
2013	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias, Ertl, Michael, Kilic, Atila. 2013. Über die Bedeutung von Kapitaleinkommen für die Einkommensverteilung Österreichs. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 39 (4): S. 571-586. Read more
2012	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela, Rechta, Henrik, Schwerer, Eliane. 2012. Combination of Evidence from Multiple Administrative Data Sources. Statistica Neerlandica 66 (1), 18-33. Read more
2012	Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2012. Die langfristige Entwicklung der Einkommenskonzentration in Österreich 1957-2009. Teil 2: Methodik und Ergebnisse. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 38 (1), 77-102. Read more
2011	Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2011. Die langfristige Entwicklung der Einkommenskonzentration in Österreich, 1957-2008. Teil 1: Literaturüberblick und Beschreibung der Daten. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 37 (4): S. 513-530. Read more
2010	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela, Schwerer, Eliane, Rechta, Henrik. 2010. A Quality Framework for Statistics based on Administrative Data Sources using the Example of the Austrian Census 2011. Austrian Journal of Statistics 39 (4): 299-308. Read more
2008	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2008. Verteilungspolitische Implikationen der steuerlichen Begünstigung des 13. und 14. Monatsgehaltes. Kurswechsel (3), 86-94. Read more

Chapter in edited volume

2016	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Altzinger, Wilfried. 2016. Entwicklung und Verteilung der Einkommen. In: Sozialbericht 2015-2016, Hrsg. BMASK, 227-268. Wien: BMASK. Read more
2015	Altzinger, Wilfried, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2015. Die Entwicklung der Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen seit dem EU-Beitritt 1995. In: Politische Ökonomie Österreichs: Kontinuitäten und Veränderungen seit dem EU-Beitritt, Hrsg. BEIGEWUM (Hg.), 349-368. Wien: Mandelbaum. Read more
2011	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2011. Verteilungs- und Aufkommenseffekte eines integrierten Tarifs für Sozialversicherung und Lohnsteuer. In: Armut und Reichtum Ungleiche Lebenslagen, -chancen, -stile und -welten in Österreich, Hrsg. Michael Rosecker/Sabine Schmitner, S. 323-340. Wiener Neustadt: Verein Alltag Verlag. Read more

Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium

2020	Moser, Mathias. 2020. Displacement & Migration: Does it pay off? SEMILUX, Remote, Luxembourg, 10.06.-10.06. Read more
2020	Moser, Mathias. 2020. We just estimated a million regressions. LISER Internal Seminar, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 12.03.-12.03. Read more
2016	Moser, Mathias. 2016. Kalte Progression: Verteilungswirkungen einer automatischen Abgeltung. Fachbeirat Volkswirtschaft, Statistik Austria, Wien, Austria, 28.11.-28.11. Invited Talk Read more
2015	Moser, Mathias. 2015. A Comprehensive Approach to Posterior Jointness Analysis in Bayesian Model Averaging Applications. XVIII Applied Economic Meeting, Alicante, Spanien, 04.06.-05.06. Read more
2015	Moser, Mathias. 2015. Europas Vermögenseliten. Eine Analyse der Struktur von Vermögenden im HFCS. Momentum Kongress, Hallstatt, Austria, 22.10.-25.10. Read more
2014	Moser, Mathias. 2014. Are unequal communities more polluted? A spatial analysis of neighborhood inequality and industrial air pollution in the US. FMM Conference, Berlin, Deutschland, 28.10.-30.10. Read more
2014	Moser, Mathias. 2014. BMA Covariate Inclusion Structures - A Latent Class Approach. Second Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, Vienna, Österreich, 18.09.-19.09. Read more
2014	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2014. Socioeconomic Determinants of the Wealth Distribution among Austrian Households. Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, Vienna, Österreich, 29.05.-31.05. Read more
2014	Moser, Mathias. 2014. Spatial Dynamics of Income Inequality in Austria. WIFO Regional Economics Workshop, Wien, Österreich, 01.09.-02.09. Read more
2013	Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2013. Regionale Einkommensungleichheit in Österreich. Momentum Kongress, Hallstatt, Österreich, 17.10.-20.10. Read more
2013	Schnetzer, Matthias, Moser, Mathias. 2013. Spatial Dynamics of Income Inequality in Austria. Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NoeG), Innsbruck, Österreich, 10.05.-11.05. Read more
2012	Moser, Mathias. 2012. Dilution priors for neighbourhoods of models in Bayesian Model Averaging. An Application to the Financial Crisis of 2008/09. ECOMOD, Sevilla, Spanien, 04.07.-06.07. Read more
2012	Altzinger, Wilfried, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2012. Entwicklung der Einkommenskonzentration in Österreich, 1957-2009. Historikertag, Krems/Stein, Österreich, 27.09. Vortrag auf Einladung Read more
2011	Moser, Mathias. 2011. Interaction Terms and Restricted Model Spaces in Bayesian Model Averaging. An Application to Growth. Computational and Financial Econometrics, London, Großbritannien, 17.12.-19.12. Read more
2011	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela, Rechta, Henrik, Schwerer, Eliane. 2011. Quality Measures for Administrative Registers: Preliminary Results for the Austrian Census 2011. New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgien, 22.02.-24.02. Read more
2010	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela, Rechta, Henrik, Schwerer, Eliane. 2010. Bewertung der Qualität registerbasierter Statistiken. 6. Predictive Analytics Konferenz 2010, Wien, Österreich, 18.05.-19.05. Read more
2010	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Fiedler, Reinhard, Schwerer, Eliane. 2010. Quality Assessment for register-based Statistics in Austria. Neighbouring Countries Cooperation Workshop on administrative data (AD) examination and measurement of AD-quality, Budapest, Ungarn, 31.05.-01.06. Read more
2010	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Fiedler, Reinhard, Schwerer, Eliane. 2010. Quality Assessment for register-based Statistics in Austria. Joint UNECE/Eurostat Expert Group Meeting on Register-Based Censuses, The Hague, Niederlande, 11.05.-12.05. Read more
2010	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Fiedler, Reinhard, Schwerer, Eliane. 2010. Quality assessment for register-based Statistics in Austria. European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics, Helsinki, Finnland, 03.05.-06.05. Read more
2010	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2010. TAXSIM - Ein Mikrosimulationsmodell für Österreichs SV- und Lohnsteuersystem. WIFO Extern, Wien, Österreich, 08.07-08.07. Read more
2009	Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. Die Verwendung von Mikrodaten in Forschung und Lehre an der WU. Die Verwendung von Mikrodaten in d. wissenschaftlichen Lehre, Wien, Österreich, 17.06-17.06. Read more
2009	Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. Ein Modell zur Simulation von Reformvorschlägen der Lohnsteuer und Sozialversicherung. ÖSG Statistiktage, Wien, Österreich, 16.04-16.04. Read more
2009	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. Modelling the Impacts of Tax Reform Proposals on Governmental Revenues and the Distribution of Incomes. NOeG 2009 Annual Conference, Linz, Österreich, 22.05-23.05. Read more
2009	Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. The Development of Top-Incomes in Austria, 1954-2007. Research Seminar in Economics, FU Berlin, Deutschland, 28.10-28.10. Read more
2008	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2008. Verteilungspolitische Implikationen der steuerlichen Begünstigung des 13. und 14. Monatsgehalts. Verteilung und Demokratie, Wien, Österreich, 14.11-16.11. Read more

Working/discussion paper, preprint

2017	Jestl, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Raggl, Anna. 2017. Can't Keep Up with the Joneses: How Relative Deprivation Pushes Internal Migration in Austria. Read more
2017	Essletzbichler, Jürgen, Disslbacher, Franziska, Moser, Mathias. 2017. The victims of neoliberal globalization and the rise of the populist vote: A comparative analysis of three recent electoral decisions. Read more
2016	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2016. Bequests and the Accumulation of Wealth in the Eurozone. INEQ Working Paper Series 1. Read more
2014	Zwickl, Klara, Moser, Mathias. 2014. Informal environmental regulation of industrial air pollution: Does neighborhood inequality matter? Read more
2014	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2014. Sozioökonomische Charakteristika desobersten Prozents der Vermögensverteilungin Österreich. Read more
2014	Moser, Mathias and Schnetzer, Matthias. 2014. The Geography of Average Income and Inequality: Spatial Evidence from Austria. Department of Economics Working Paper Series, 191. Read more
2013	Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus, Moser, Mathias, Raggl, Anna. 2013. On the Determinants of Global Bilateral Migration Flows. WWWforEurope Working Paper 5/2013. Read more

Media report

2021	Disslbacher, Franziska, Moser, Mathias. 2021. Beyond the Gini coefficient to understand income inequality within and between regions. Read more
2016	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Aus für kalte Progression besser für Gutverdiener. Read more
2016	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Kalte Progression: Gleichmäßige Entlastung begünstigt Besserverdiener. Read more
2016	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Kalte Progression: WU-Studie warnt vor 'Umverteilung nach oben' Read more
2016	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Steuerpolitik im ”Blindflug“. Read more
2016	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Studie über Steuern: Spitzenverdiener zahlen weniger. Read more
2016	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Studie: Frischer Stoff für den Steuerstreit. Read more
2016	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Studie: Ganz oben sinkt die Abgabenbelastung wieder. Read more

Unpublished lecture

2017	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2017. Einkommens- und Vermögensungleichheit in Österreich - Reformoptionen für ein modernes Steuersystem. Dialogforum "Steuergerechtigkeit" St. Pölten, 19.09. Read more
2016	Humer, Stefan and Moser, Mathias. 2016. Aktuelle Schwerpunkte der Verteilungsforschung. Workshop, Rechnungshof, 08.04. Read more
2016	Moser, Mathias. 2016. Lügen für Fortgeschrittene: Bayesianische Statistik in der Ökonom(etr)ie. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mathematik NÖ, St. Pölten, 16.02. Read more

Miscellaneous

2013	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias, Ertl, Michael, Kilic, Atila. 2013. Einkommensverteilung in Österreich. Eine komparative Analyse von Mikrodatensätzen. Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Read more
2013	Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2013. Entwicklung der regionalen Einkommensverteilung in Österreich zwischen 2004 und 2010. STATISTIK AUSTRIA Schnellbericht 10.6. Read more

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