Maarten Christiaan Wilhelmus Janssen (born September 19, 1962 in
Breda) is a Dutch economist and university professor of microeconomics at the
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich hist ...
.
He is particularly known for his work on consumer search behavior and
auction theory
Auction theory is an applied branch of economics which deals with how bidders act in auction markets and researches how the features of auction markets incentivise predictable outcomes. Auction theory is a tool used to inform the design of real-w ...
.
Education
Janssen studied
econometrics
Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...
and philosophy of economics at the
University of Groningen
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...
, where he received his PhD in 1990. From 1997 to 2008, he was professor of
microeconomics at
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humani ...
and director of the
Tinbergen Institute The Tinbergen Institute is a joint institute for research and education in economics, econometrics and finance of the VU University Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam, and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The institute was founded in 1987 an ...
from 2004 to 2009. Since 2008, Janssen has been professor of microeconomics at the Department of Economics, University of Vienna.
Scientific contribution
Janssen's research focus is theoretical
industrial economics
In economics, industrial organization is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of (and, therefore, the boundaries between) firms and markets. Industrial organization adds real-world complications to the perfe ...
. In particular, he conducts research on consumer search behavior and auctions, and has made several methodological contributions in the area of consumer
search theory
In microeconomics, search theory studies buyers or sellers who cannot instantly find a trading partner, and must therefore search for a partner prior to transacting.
Search theory clarifies how buyers and sellers choose when to acknowledge a coo ...
. In addition, Janssen has launched a new subfield that studies the effects of consumer search in vertically structured industries. In auction theory, Janssen studies the interaction between the way firms bid in auctions and the way they compete in markets after the auction. This is particularly important in
spectrum auctions for mobile telecommunications.
[Bichler, M., Gretschko, V., & Janssen, M. (2017). Bargaining in spectrum auctions: A review of the German auction in 2015. Telecommunications Policy, 41(5), 325–340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2017.01.005]
Janssen has served as a visiting professor in Moscow and Paris (
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), as well as in the U.S. (
Duke University) and Belgium (
Université Catholique de Louvain), among other places.
In 2023, he will assume the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professorship at
Stanford University.
Memberships
Janssen is a member of the Dutch scientific
Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
In 2017, he was accepted as a Research Fellow at the
Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.
Awards
In 2017, the
in Moscow awarded Janssen an honorary degree.
Publications
Janssen has published over 50 scholarly articles in journals such as the
American Economic Review,
the Review of Economic Studies
''The Review of Economic Studies'' (also known as ''REStud'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering economics. It was established in 1933 by a group of economists based in Britain and the United States. The original editorial tea ...
, the
Journal of Economic Theory
The ''Journal of Economic Theory'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of economic theory. Karl Shell has served as editor-in-chief of the journal since it was established in 1968. Since 2000, he has shared the edito ...
,
The RAND Journal of Economics
''The RAND Journal of Economics'' (usually called ''RAND Journal'' or simply ''Rand'' ) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the RAND Corporation. It publishes theoretical and empirica ...
, the
Journal of the European Economic Association
The ''Journal of the European Economic Association'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of economics. It was established in 2003 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the European Economic Association. The current m ...
, the
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and the
Economic Journal
''The Economic Journal'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published on behalf of the Royal Economic Society by Oxford University Press. The journal was established in 1891 and publishes papers from all areas of economics.The edito ...
. A complete list of publications can be found on the University of Vienna webpage.
References
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1962 births
living people
20th-century Dutch economists
21st-century Dutch economists
Academic staff of the University of Vienna