Tobias Thomas (economist)

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Tobias Thomas (born April 30, 1975 in Duisburg ) is a German economist and general director of Statistics Austria. He is also adjunct professor of economics, especially political economy and the influence of media research, at the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) of the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf and Research Fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) of the Central European University ( CEU) in Budapest . In addition, Thomas is a member of the Committee for Economic Systems and Institutional Economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik , the largest economists' association in German-speaking countries. In Economists Ranking 2019 of the most influential economists of the press, FAZ and Neue Zürcher Zeitung has Thomas Rank 5 in Austria.

Life

Thomas studied economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Technische Universität Berlin and received his doctorate summa cum laude from the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg in 2006 . Research stays took him to Columbia University in New York (USA) at the invitation of Anya Schiffrin and Nobel Prize in Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz . Thomas is a founding member of ECONWATCH - Society for Political Analysis e. V. in Berlin and was its chairman from 2003 to 2019. From 2017 to May 2020 Thomas was director of the Austrian economic research institute EcoAustria . Since June 2020 he has been General Director of Statistics Austria .

Scientific work

As part of his research at the interface between economics and psychology, Thomas analyzes decision-making processes and actor behavior in an economic and political context. His research interests are in particular the economy of political reforms and the influence of the media on perception and behavior. His research results on the influence of media coverage on the population's concerns about migration were published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO); the analysis of the influence of media coverage on voting intentions in the European Journal of Political Economy (EJPE); his research on the role of the media in democracies in the constitutional political economy (CPE). In addition, Thomas examines in his applied research questions of the sustainable design of public finances and social security systems as well as the competitiveness of business locations. Thomas is regularly present in national and international media, for example in BusinessDay , Der Standard , Die Presse , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Swiss Month , Trend or Wirtschaftswoche .

Scientific publications (selection)

  • Benesch, C., Loretz, S., Stadelmann, D. & T. Thomas (2019), Media Coverage and Immigration Worries: Econometric Evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization , 160, 52-67.
  • Dewenter, R., Linder, M. & T. Thomas (2019), Can media drive the electorate? The impact of media coverage on voting intentions. European Journal of Political Economy , 58, 245-261.
  • Dewenter, R., Dulleck, U. & Thomas, T. (forthcoming), Does the 4th Estate Deliver? The Political Coverage Index and its Application to Media Capture. Constitutional Political Economy, published online first: October 28, 2019
  • Berlemann, M. & T. Thomas (2019), The Distance Bias in Natural Disaster Reporting - Empirical Evidence for the United States. Applied Economics Letters , 16, 1026-1032.
  • Thomas, T., Heß, M. & GG Wagner (2017), Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk Loving of Politicians and Bureaucrats. Review of Economics , 68, 167-179.
  • Ulbricht, D., Kholodilin, K. & T. Thomas (2017), Do media data help to predict German industrial production? Journal of Forecasting , 36, 483-496.
  • Beckmann, K., Dewenter, R. & T. Thomas (2017), Can news draw blood? The impact of media coverage on the number and severity of terror attacks. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy , 23, 1–16.
  • Dewenter, R., Heimeshoff U. & T. Thomas (2016), Media Coverage and Car Manufacturers' Sales. Economics Bulletin , 36, 976-982.
  • Thomas, T. (2013): “What price makes a good a status good? Results from a mating game ”, in: European Journal of Law and Economics , 36, 35–55.
  • Göbel, M., Schneider, A., & Thomas, T. (2010). Consumption behavior and the aspiration for conformity and consistency. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 3 (2), 83-94.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ECONWATCH - Society for Political Analysis eV Accessed on October 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Statistics Austria - The General Directors. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Christine Benesch, Simon Loretz, David Stadelmann, Tobias Thomas: Media coverage and immigration worries: Econometric evidence . In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization . tape 160 , April 1, 2019, ISSN  0167-2681 , p. 52–67 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jebo.2019.02.011 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed October 7, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Ralf Dewenter, Melissa Linder, Tobias Thomas: Can media drive the electorate? The impact of media coverage on voting intentions . In: European Journal of Political Economy . tape 58 , June 1, 2019, ISSN  0176-2680 , p. 245–261 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ejpoleco.2018.12.003 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed October 7, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Ralf Dewenter, Uwe Dulleck, Tobias Thomas: Does the 4th estate deliver? The Political Coverage Index and its application to media capture . In: Constitutional Political Economy . October 28, 2019, ISSN  1572-9966 , doi : 10.1007 / s10602-019-09291-5 .
  6. ↑ Hilary Joffe: SA's economists “absent in policy debates”. In: PressReader.com. September 7, 2015, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Financing of the care stands on shaky legs - derStandard.at. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Gerhard Hofer: "Cold progression must be abolished". September 14, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Tobias Thomas, Philipp Koch, Wolfgang Schwarzbauer: Housing shortage: Why Austria is not a paradise for tenants . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 7, 2019]).
  10. ↑ In the Trump Trap. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Labor market: a mountain full of challenges. November 14, 2018, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Kristina Antonia Schäfer: Soli-Aus without additional costs: Even the state would benefit from the end of the solos. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg