Fabian Prettenthaler

Welcome! I’m Fabian, a PhD student at the University of Vienna studying labor and housing economics.

My research focuses on two main areas: the drivers of self-employment and their aggregate effects, and the role of older adults’ housing decisions in creating market misallocation. I employ a combination of survey data and quantitative heterogeneous agent models to address these questions.

My advisors are Monika Merz and Michael Reiter.


Interests

  • Occupational Choice

  • Housing

  • Heterogeneous agents


Education

University of Vienna

  • PhD in Economics | 2021 - present

  • MSc in Economics | 2018 - 2021

Vienna University of Business and Economics

  • BSc in Economics | 2014 - 2018

Work in progress

  • Staying Put: Housing Decisions of Asset-Rich, Cash-Poor Elderly Households | Details

Working papers

  • Heterogeneous Risk Preferences, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth | Details CEPR Discussion Paper

    • joint with B Hochmuth, and M Merz (both University of Vienna)

Teaching