Matéo Moglia

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Matéo Moglia

I am a 3rd-year PhD candidate at CREST and Ecole Polytechnique, advised by Pierre Boyer and Benoit Schmutz-Bloch. My research focuses on urban economics, with interests in local public finance, environmental economics, and empirical industrial organization.

I hold a MPhil. in Economics from ENS de Lyon and am a former research assistant to Mathias Thoenig. During the Summer 2025, I visited the Berlin Quantitative Spatial Group, sponsored by Gabriel Ahlfeldt. During the Spring 2026, I visited the Wharton School, sponsored by Gilles Duranton.

I will be on the 2026-2027 job market.

Job Market Paper

The Hidden Costs of Urbanization Draft soon

What are the housing supply costs in dense areas? Levering a unique dataset, linking development costs, building permits, and precise land occupation, I provide precise estimates of the housing construction costs by project type. I embed those cost estimates in an option-value forward-looking model of land (re)development, calibrated on the Paris area. Thanks to model estimation, I am able to precisely separate regulation, construction, and land costs in the local housing supply elasticity computations. Counterfactual exercises highlight the importance of targeted subsidies and loans to address the current housing supply crisis.

Presentations: UEA (Barcelona), Aix-Marseille School of Economics, AFSE (Nantes)

Working Papers

The Spatial Impacts of Population Ageing Submitted

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Rich countries are ageing and will all soon lose population. This paper examines the impact of this major demographic shift on welfare and inequality by taking into account its wide spatial heterogeneity. Using administrative data on population, housing markets, and local public finance in France, I reveal a new trade-off related to population ageing: an increase in housing costs and in local tax revenues. I build and calibrate a quantitative spatial model in which households differ in terms of skill, age, and family size. I then use this model to run counterfactual experiments based on demographic forecasts. The results show small positive impacts on welfare albeit with an increase in spatial inequalities.

Presentations: AFEPOP (Marseille), CREST, RIEF (Marseille), Doctorissimies (PSE), EEA (Bordeaux), CEP (Berlin)
Age-Specific Response to Climate Change Draft soon

With Brice Berland

Soon.

Presentations (incl. by co-author*): AFEPOP* (Strasbourg), HEC, CREST*

Teaching

Introduction to Economics (Engineer)

Teaching Assistant · Ecole Polytechnique

Spring 2026
Introduction to R and Stata (Master)

Teaching Assistant · Ecole Polytechnique

Fall 2025
Introduction to Economics (Bachelor)

Teaching Assistant · Ecole Polytechnique

Spring 2024–2025
Quantitative Methods for Social Science (Master)

Instructor · Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Spring 2023

References

Pierre Boyer
Professor of Economics, CREST & Ecole Polytechnique

Benoit Schmutz-Bloch
Professor of Economics, CREST & Ecole Polytechnique

Mathias Thoenig
Professor of Economics, HEC Lausanne

Miscellaneous

Data replicator
The Economic Journal, the Econometrics Journal, the Journal of Political Economy

Other activities

Organiser: CREST PhD Urban and Spatial Workshop (2025, 2026), Economics Days @ ENS de Lyon (2023)
ENS de Lyon then CREST student representative (since 2019)

Personal
Outside research I enjoy listening to funk and jazz music, go to post-punk shows, and play the bass.