Florian Oswald

Assistant Professor of Economics

SciencesPo Paris

Bonjour!

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at SciencesPo in Paris. My work is in the fields of Housing, Urban, Macro and Labor Economics. I also like to think about computational techniques required for structural estimation of microeconometric models.

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Interests

Urban/Macro/Labour
Computational Methods
Reproducible Research

Education

PhD in Economics, 2015

UCL

Publications

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

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

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Nicolas Coeurdacier, Marc Teignier, Florian Oswald (2021). Structural Change, Landuse and Urban Expansion.

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Projects

London Bus Garages

This paper estimates a spatial bus garage entry model to test whether anti-competitive market sharing agreements exist between firms in the London bus route procurement market. Our approach is based on a simple but powerful idea: a necessary condition for collusion is the triggering of a punishment when a firm deviates to the competitive equilibrium.

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.

Airbnb vs Rents

What’s the causal impact of airbnb listings on long-term rents and house prices? In this project we try to establish a causal link between the two by using proprietary airdna data together with detailed rental market listings.

Fertility and Location Choice in the City

In this project we want to better understand the role of fertility choices in the context of the standard Urban Model. How many children will be born in each location? Why is fertility different across cities?