Grants and Policy

Research and Conference Grants

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Does it matter who owns the city? Institutional Landlords, Housing Affordability, and Renter Wellbeing (project 10009643). Approximately CHF 430,000. Project period: 2026–2029. With Andreas Fuster, Christian Hilber and Maxence Valentin.

Leibniz Association — Leibniz Transfer

New Transparency for the German Housing Market: Bridging Data, Research, and Public Knowledge. Approximately EUR 1 million in total project funding. Project period: 2026–2028. With Moritz Schularick (project leader), Steffen Zetzmann and Jonas Zdrzalek.

UZH Global Funding Scheme 2025

CHF 40,000 for Global Real Estate and Sustainability: An International Conference on Emerging Challenges and Research Frontiers, to be held in Zurich in September 2027, in collaboration with Yale University, the University of Oxford and the University of Connecticut. With Christian Hilber, Jeffrey Cohen, Martin Schmalz, Per Östberg, Zacharias Sautner, Cameron LaPoint and Kenneth Gillingham.

ECONtribute Research Grant 2022

Co-principal investigator for the construction of a housing transaction-level dataset covering several large German cities since the 1960s. With Moritz Schularick and Martin Dohmen.