New Research Fellow: Michael König
Michael König has joined Tinbergen Institute as a research fellow. König is associate professor at the Department of Spatial Economics at VU Amsterdam.
König is also a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF). Prior to joining the VU Amsterdam he was a senior research associate at the University of Zurich, a visiting scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the Department of Economics at Stanford University.
His research focuses on the economics of innovation and technical change, and how these affect and are being affect by networked relationships between various economic actors, ranging from individuals, firms, sectors to countries. His research combines both, theoretical as well as empirical methods, and he uses these methods to evaluate real world policy instruments.
He published in journals such as Econometrica and Theoretical Economics. His publication ‘R&D Networks: Theory, Empirics and Policy Implications’ (with co-authors Y. Zenou, Xiaodong Liu) is forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics.