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Lucas Darius KONRAD

Department of Economics,
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna)
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria

Employment

• Consultant, World Bank – FinSAC & MTI — Since 2023/05
• Research and Teaching Associate, WU Vienna – Economics Department — Since 2022/09
• Project Member, A New Climate Plan for Austria — 2023/04 - 2024/06
• Trainee, European Central Bank – DG Statistics — 2022/03 - 2022/09
• Tutor, WU Vienna – Markets and Strategy — 2021/09 - 2022/02
• Research Intern, Dutch Central Planning Bureau — 2021/04 - 2021/10
• Student Assistant, Raiffeisen Bank International – Macro/FI/FX-Research — 2019/03 - 2020/09
• Teacher in Highschool Mathematics, Cooma, NSW, Australia — 2014/03 - 2015/06

Education

• PhD program in Economics, WU Vienna — Since 2022/09
• MSc in Economics (Research Track), WU Vienna — Since 2019/09
• MSc in Econometrics (with honors), Tilburg University — 2020/09 - 2021/11
• BSc in Economics (with honors), WU Vienna — 2016/10 - 2019/09

Skills

• Languages: German (native), English (C2), Spanish (A2), French (A1)
• Programming: R, C++, MATLAB, Python, Mathematica, Stata

Research Interests

Anomaly Detection, Environmental Risk, Macroeconomic Risk, Extreme Value Theory, Bayesian Statistics, Dependency Modeling

Teaching Activities

• Bridging Course in Econometrics (graduate)
• Econometrics 1 (undergraduate)
• Econometrics 3 (undergraduate)
• International Macroeconomics (undergraduate)

Academic Work in Progress

• Konrad, L.D. (2025).
  The Approximately Exact Generalized Moment Prior
  Presented at ESOBE (2025)

• Konrad, L.D., Kuschnig, N. (2025).
  Testing Most Influential Sets

• Konrad, L.D., Kuschnig, N. (2025).
  Testing for Influential Sets
  Presented at IAAE (2025)

• Konrad, L.D., Pfarrhofer, M (2025).
  Skewness in Mean - Growth at Risk

• Konrad, L.D., Goldmann, J (2025).
  BISAM - Estimating Bayesian Indicator Saturated Models in R

• Konrad, L.D., Wohak, U., Kuschnig, N., Vashold, L. (2025).
  Random Forrest Protection - Estimating REDD+ Counterfactuals

• Konrad, L.D., Vashold, L., and Crespo Cuaresma, J. (2024).
  The Saturated Bayesian - Break Detection in Panel Data with Short Time Horizons
  Presented at WWCS (2024), ISBA (2024), ESOBE (2024)

• Konrad L.D. (2024).
  Basically Trapped - A General Equilibrium Approach to the Undersupply of Basic Research in Free Markets

Thesis Supervision

• Jakob G. (2025): BISAM Unchained: A High Performance Framework for Bayesian Indicator Saturated Models (MSc)

• Matthew Dwight H. (2025): Microstructure Based Mid-Price Forecasting: Performance Comparison of a Stochastic Approach Against Benchmark Machine Learning Methods (MSc)

• Georgy A. (2025): Inflation and Stock Market Returns in the United States: A Sectoral Analysis (BSc)

• Jonas F. (2025): Beyond Static Pro-Formas: A Macro-Based Forecasting Framework for Cap Rates and Refinancing Risk (BSc)

• Thaïs N. (2024): Detecting Fires through Satellite Distortions using Causal Random Forests (MSc)

Journal Referee

Empirica, Statistical Journal of the IAOS

References

Available upon request