Dr. Thomas Schwab

• Utilize Austrian administrative tax data of business owners • Predicting in-year sales and expenses of firms using supervised machine learning methods • Identifying taxpayers optimizing their tax bill at the end of the year using bunching methodology

• Carrying out of numerous data analysis in the context of merchant-level data for various stakeholders • Analysis of a temporary VAT cut in Germany to understand the behavior of merchants causally • Structured documentation of merchant-level data and related processes

• Principal digital transformation specialist responsible of conceptualizing and implementing data science strategies • Strategic management of company’s data warehouse infrastructure • Implement dashboards for large-scale data analytics to support financial auditing and tax services • Develop machine learning routines to identify fraud within complex accounting data

• Evaluated economic policies in taxation for the European Commission, foundations, and lobbying groups • Communicated policy insights to public and scientific stakeholders at conferences worldwide • Quantified behavioral responses of multinational enterprises to tax policies using econometric models (regressions etc.) • Built networks with leading scientific communities to drive best practice and continuous knowledge exchange

• Designed and launched new Public Economics course covering advanced analytical methods, research and data value • Negotiated successfully data access to exploit confidential taxpayer data for future research projects

• Contributed to several economic policy consulting projects with focus taxation • Developed and implemented concept to assess VAT tax fraud using novel micro-level data on cross-national trade flows • Supported calibrating computable general equilibrium model TaxLab

• Optimized data-based supplementary materials for classes in public economics (bachelor level) • Graded take-home exams and parts of final exams • Offered consultation hours for students

• Distribution of promotional material • Office support

• Documented in-house business processes • Elaborated recommendations for optimizing business processes

• Compiled business processes in electricity metering • Developed PHP based dashboard to deliver key performance indicators of electricity metering

• Emergency call center clerk • Dispatcher of emergency personnel

Business Taxation

Public Economics

Public Economics

Volkswirtschaftslehre

Software Engineering und Betriebswirtschaftslehre