Maarten Christiaan Wilhelmus Janssen (born September 19, 1962 in

Breda Breda ( , , , ) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant. ...

) is a Dutch

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and university

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

microeconomics Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and Theory of the firm, firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarcity, scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. M ...

at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

. He is particularly known for his work on consumer search behavior and

auction theory Auction theory is a branch of applied economics that deals with how bidders act in auctions and researches how the features of auctions Incentivisation, incentivise predictable outcomes. Auction theory is a tool used to inform the design of real- ...

Education

Janssen studied

econometrics Econometrics is an 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; , abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, th ...

, where he received his PhD in 1990. From 1997 to 2008, he was professor of

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam ( ; abbreviated as EUR) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century Christian humanist and theologian. Erasmus M ...

and director of the Tinbergen Institute 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. It involves determining the best approach to use when looking for a specific ite ...

. 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 A spectrum auction is a process whereby a government auction, government uses an auction system to sell the rights to transmit signals over specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum and to assign scarce spectrum resources. Depending on the s ...

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 Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

) and Belgium (

Université Catholique de Louvain UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally establishe ...

), among other places. In 2023, he will assume the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professorship at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

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 National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow awarded Janssen an honorary degree.

Publications

Janssen has published over 50 scholarly articles in journals such as the

American Economic Review The ''American Economic Review'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal first published by the American Economic Association in 1911. The current editor-in-chief is Erzo FP Luttmer, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College. The journal is ...

, the Review of Economic Studies, 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 editor ...

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 empiric ...

, 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. A complete list of publications can be found on the University of Vienna webpage.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Janssen, Maarten 1962 births Living people 20th-century Dutch economists 21st-century Dutch economists Academic staff of the University of Vienna