Dr. Alexander Daminger

Alexander Daminger is a an Econmist in the "Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis" research group at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), which he joined in 2022. His research sits at the intersection of urban and regional economics, public finance, and real estate economics, with a focus on housing and land markets, intra-urban price formation, and the capitalisation of local amenities and policy interventions into property values. In his applied work at WIFO, he analyses regional business cycles and competitiveness and evaluates European funding instruments, in particular Cohesion Policy and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP Strategic Plan). Methodologically, he relies primarily on microeconometric and quasi-experimental methods, complemented by hedonic models on high-resolution spatial data. He received his doctorate from the University of Regensburg in 2021, where he previously held a research-associate position at the Chair of Urban Economics and Retail Real Estate. His dissertation was awarded, among others, the Research Prize of the German Real Estate Academy (DIA) and the "Statistical Science for the Society" Young Researcher Prize of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).