
Johannes Moenius is the founding director of the Institute of Spatial Economic Analysis and holds the William R. and Sue Johnson Endowed Chair of Spatial Economic Analysis and Regional Planning. He joined the faculty in the fall of 2005, where he teaches courses in international business. Before that he taught at the Kellogg School of Management. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. He studied Management Science at Bamberg University and Economics at the Technical University in Dresden, Queen’s University, Canada and the University of California, San Diego, where he received his Ph.D. In his research, he is interested in how domestic and international institutions affect international trade. He has also written several papers on the effects of technical standards on trade flows and the dynamics of comparative advantage. He has also worked on the dynamics of network effects in platform technologies and competition between political parties. He has presented his work in more than 200 talks at universities, conferences, and government institutions. His work has won two best paper awards and appeared, amongst others in
The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, and the
International Journal of Industrial Organization.