David Preinerstorfer
Univ.Prof. David Preinerstorfer, Ph.D.
Office hours: by appointment [office: D4.4.026]
Assistant: Katrin Artner
  
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Research Interests
Details will follow soon.
Short Vita
Academic Appointments
- since 2024: Professor of Statistics and Econometrics, WU Vienna, Institute for Statistics and Mathematics 
- 2021–2024: Associate Professor, University of St.Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science; Director at the Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research 
- 2017–2021: Assistant Professor with tenure, Université libre de Bruxelles; European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics 
- 2016–2017: Post Doc, Aarhus University, Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES) 
- 2015–2016 Post Doc, University of Vienna, Department of Statistics and Operations Research 
- 2011–2015 Prae Doc, University of Vienna, Department of Statistics and Operations Research 
Education
- 2011–2015 PhD in Statistics and Operations Research. 
- 2009–2011 Master in Statistics. 
- 2006–2009 Bachelor in Statistics. 
- 2005–2010 Mag.rer.nat. in Psychology. 
 All degrees were obtained at the University of Vienna.
Publications
Working papers
- High-Dimensional Gaussian Approximations for Robust Means, with Anders Bredahl Kock. 
- Winsorized Mean Estimation with Heavy Tails and Adversarial Contamination, with Anders Bredahl Kock. 
- A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Size Controllability of Heteroskedasticity Robust Test Statistics, with Benedikt M. Pötscher. 
- Enhanced Power Enhancements for Testing many Moment Equalities: Beyond the 2- and ∞-Norm, with Anders Bredahl Kock. 
- Regularizing Fairness in Optimal Policy Learning with Distributional Targets, with Anders Bredahl Kock. 
Published or forthcoming papers
- Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing, with Benedikt M. Pötscher, Econometric Theory, (2025), 41, 249--301. 
- Functional Sequential Treatment Allocation with Covariates, with Anders Bredahl Kock and Bezirgen Veliyev, Econometric Theory, (2024), 40, 1211--1252. 
- A Remark on Moment-Dependent Phase Transitions in High-Dimensional Gaussian Approximations, with Anders Bredahl Kock, Statistics & Probability Letters, (2024), 211, 110149. 
- Superconsistency of Tests in High Dimensions, with Anders Bredahl Kock, Econometric Theory, (2024), 40, 688--704. 
- A comment on: "A Modern Gauss-Markov Theorem", with Benedikt M. Pötscher, Econometrica, (2024), 92, 913--924. (longer version) 
- How to Avoid the Zero-Power Trap in Testing for Correlation, Econometric Theory, (2023), 39, 1292--1324. 
- How Reliable are Bootstrap-Based Heteroskedasticity Robust Tests? with Benedikt M. Pötscher, Econometric Theory, (2023), 39, 789--847. 
- Consistency of p-norm Based Tests in High Dimensions: Characterization, Monotonicity, Domination, with Anders Bredahl Kock, Bernoulli, (2023), 29, 2544--2573. 
- Treatment Recommendation with Distributional Targets, with Anders Bredahl Kock and Bezirgen Veliyev, Journal of Econometrics, (2023), 234, 624--646. 
- Functional Sequential Treatment Allocation, with Anders Bredahl Kock and Bezirgen Veliyev, Journal of the American Statistical Association, (2022), 117, 1311--1323. 
- Uniformly Valid Confidence Intervals Post-Model-Selection, with François Bachoc and Lukas Steinberger, Annals of Statistics, (2020), 48, 440--463. 
- Power in High-Dimensional Testing Problems, with Anders Bredahl Kock, Econometrica, (2019), 87, 1055--1069. 
- Further Results on Size and Power of Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Robust Tests, with an Application to Trend Testing, with Benedikt M. Pötscher, Electronic Journal of Statistics, (2019), 13, 3893--3942. 
- Controlling the Size of Autocorrelation Robust Tests, with Benedikt M. Pötscher, Journal of Econometrics, (2018), 207, 406--431. 
- Finite Sample Properties of Tests Based on Prewhitened Nonparametric Covariance Estimators, Electronic Journal of Statistics, (2017), 11, 2097--2167. 
- On the Power of Invariant Tests for Hypotheses on a Covariance Matrix, with Benedikt M. Pötscher, Econometric Theory, (2017), 33, 1--68. 
- On Size and Power of Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Robust Tests, with Benedikt M. Pötscher, Econometric Theory, (2016), 32, 261--358. 
- Non-monotonic Penalizing for the Number of Structural Breaks, with Erhard Reschenhofer and Lukas Steinberger, Computational Statistics, (2013), 28, 2585--2598. 
- Parameter Recovery and Model Selection in Mixed Rasch Models, with Anton K. Formann, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, (2012), 65, 251--262. 
