Johannes Münster
Research focuses
Media Economics, Industrial Organization, Political Economy, Microeconomic Theory
Curriculum vitae
- Since 2012 Professor, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- 2010 - 2012 Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor, W1), School of Economics and Business, Free University of Berlin
- 2009 - 2010 Research fellow, Department of Economics, Institute for Economic Theory, Free University of Berlin, SFB/TR 15 Project A1
- 2007 - 2008 Visiting Professor (Lehrstuhlvertreter) Wirtschaftstheorie I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- 2001 - 2009 Research fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Research Unit Market Processes and Governance
- 2004 - 2009 SFB/TR 15 „Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems“, Project A2
- 2007 Tiburtius-Preis - der Berliner Hochschulen (1. prize, for Ph.D. thesis)
- 2006 Dr. rer. pol., Freie Universtität Berlin, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Kai A. Konrad and Prof. Dr. Helmut Bester, summa cum laude
- 2001 Award for best diploma in Economics
- 2001 Diplom Volkswirt, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2000 Magister Artium in Philosophy & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin
Selected publications
- Online shopping and platform design with ex ante registration requirements (with Florian Morath), Management Science (2018), Vol. 64 (1), 360-380.
- Subjective Evaluation versus Public Information (with Helmut Bester), Economic Theory (2016), Vol. 61 (4), 723-753, Publication.
- Quantity restrictions on advertising, commercial media bias, and welfare (with Anna Kerkhof), Journal of Public Economics (2015), Vol. 131, 124-141.
- Information sharing in contests (with Dan Kovenock and Florian Morath), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2015), Vol. 24 (3), 546-572.
- Information acquisition in conflicts, with Florian Morath, Economic Theory (2013), 54, 99–129.
- Group contest success functions, Economic Theory (2009), Vol. 41 Iss. 2, 345 - 357.
- Repeated contests with asymmetric information, Journal of Public Economic Theory (2009), Vol. 11 Issue 1, 89 – 118.
- All Equilibria of the Multi-Unit Vickrey Auction, with Andreas Blume, Paul Heidhues, Jonathan Lafky, Meixia Zhang, Games and Economic Behavior (2009), Vol. 66, Issue 2, 729-741.
- Selection Tournaments, Sabotage, and Participation, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2007), Vol. 16, Nr 4, 943–970.