Florian Oswald

Associate Professor of Economics

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I am an Associate Professor of Economics in the ESOMAS department of the University of Turin. My work is in the fields of Urban, Macro and IO, and I am insterested in associated computational methods. I am the Data Editor for The Economic Journal and for the The Econometrics Journal.

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Interests

Urban/Macro/Labour/IO
Computational Methods
Reproducible Research

Education

PhD in Economics, 2015
UCL

Publications

Marleen Marra, Florian Oswald (2024). Ownership Frictions in a Procurement Market: Evidence from London Buses. IJIO.

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Lars Nesheim, Jonathan Halket, Florian Oswald (2020). The Housing Stock, Housing Prices, and User Costs: The Roles of Location, Structure and Unobserved Quality. IER.

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Florian Oswald (2019). The Effect of Homeownership on the Option Value of Regional Migration. QE.

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Wenli Li, Florian Oswald (2017). Recourse and residential mortgages: The case of Nevada. Journal of Urban Economics.

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Bradley J Larsen, Florian Oswald, Gregor Reich, Dan Wunderli (2012). A test of the extreme value type I assumption in the bus engine replacement model. Economics Letters.

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Working Papers

Nicolas Coeurdacier, Marc Teignier, Florian Oswald (2024). Structural Change, Landuse and Urban Expansion. CEPR Working Paper.

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Marleen Marra, Florian Oswald (2023). Spatial Rents, Garage Location, and Competition in the London Bus Market. SciencesPo Working Paper.

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Costas Meghir, Wenli Li, Florian Oswald (2022). Consumer Bankrupcty, Mortgage Default and Labor Supply (R&R @ IER). working paper.

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Projects

Tatyana Deryugina, Luca Mazzone, Florian Oswald

Nov 16, 2023

Invisible Ties, Internal Flights: the Influence of Non-cohabiting Family on Migration Decisions

Every year, about 1 in 20 Americans move across cities. Extensive research has highlighted relevant frictions in geographic mobility, indicating constraints on individuals’ ability to maximize professional, educational, or investment opportunities.

François Le Grand, Florian Oswald, Xavier Ragot, Aurélien Saussay

Apr 20, 2022

Fiscal Policy for Climate Change

Fiscal policy offers a number of levers to reduce carbon emissions. Climate change mitigation can for example be implemented through carbon taxation on the production or consumption side, or through debt-financed public investments in emission-reducing infrastructure.

Nicolas Coeurdacier, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, Florian Oswald

Jan 14, 2019

Fertility, Housing Costs and City Growth

Developed economies moved from a baby boom to a baby bust, with very low fertility in large urban centers. We develop a spatial theory of demographic change and urban growth, whereby the housing market acts as an endogenous automatic stabilizer of fertility: high housing costs deter fertility while lower demographic growth mitigates future housing price increase.