Research fields

• Statistical distributions
• Size distributions in economics and related fields (distributions of income and wealth, actuarial losses, firm sizes, city sizes, ...)
• Income distribution and inequality measurement
• Stochastic orders and their applications
• Statistical foundations of data science
• Count data, especially regression models
• Time series analysis
• Econometric and statistical computing
• Reproducible empirical and computational research
• History of statistics and econometrics

• Econometric Society
• German Statistical Society (DStatG)
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)
• Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SGVS)
• Swiss Statistical Society (SSS)
• Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS, Economics Association of the German-Language Countries)

Office hours: by appointment

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."

H.P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu, 1926.

Kleiber, Christian, and Achim Zeileis. 2016. "Visualizing count data regressions using rootograms", The American Statistician, 70(3), 296-303. 

Kleiber, Christian. 2014. "The generalized lognormal distribution and the Stieltjes moment problem." Journal of Theoretical Probability, 27(4), 1167-1177.

Kleiber, Christian, and Jordan Stoyanov. 2013. "Multivariate distributions and the moment problem." Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 113, 7-18.

Bossmann, Martin, Christian Kleiber, and Klaus Wälde. 2007. "Bequests, taxation, and the distribution of wealth in a general equilibrium model." Journal of Public Economics, 91, 1247-1271.

Kleiber, Christian, and Samuel Kotz. 2003. Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ.