Foto: © Lisa Beller

Welcome to my webpage! I am a professor of economics at the University of Cologne and a member of ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy, a Cluster of Excellence under Germany’s Excellence Strategy.  I am also afiliated with the Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB) and I belong to the theme group Media and Democratic Publics at the Wissenschaftsforum zu Köln und Essen. 

Contact

Tel: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4411
E-Mail: Johannes.Muensteruni-koeln.de

Gebäude 102 (SSC), 4. Etage, Raum 328

Curriculum Vitae (September 2025)

Recent Papers

Sequencing Bilateral Negotiations with Externalities, with Markus Reisinger

Selected Publications

Debunking “fake news” on social media: Immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking and media literacy interventions (with Lara Marie Berger, Anna Kerkhof, and Felix Mindl), Journal of Public Economics (2025).

Strategic Complementarities in a Model of Commercial Media Bias (with Anna Kerkhof), Games (2025) 16(3), 21.

Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets (with Julian Freitag and Anna Kerkhof), Information Economics and Policy (2021), 56.

Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content (with Anna Kerkhof), Journal of Media Economics (2019), 32 (3-4), 99-130.

Incumbency Dominance in Letters to the Editor: Field Experimental Evidence (with Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Anna Kerkhof), Political Communication (2019), 36(3), 337-356.

Online shopping and platform design with ex ante registration requirements (with Florian Morath), Management Science (2018), Vol. 64 (1), 360-380, PDF.

Subjective Evaluation versus Public Information (with Helmut Bester), Economic Theory (2016), Vol. 61 (4), 723-753.

Quantity restrictions on advertising, commercial media bias, and welfare (with Anna Kerkhof), Journal of Public Economics (2015), Vol. 131, 124-141, PDF, Online-Appendix.

Information sharing in contests (with Dan Kovenock and Florian Morath), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2015), Vol. 24 (3), 546-572.

Group contest success functions, Economic Theory (2009), Vol. 41 (2), 345-357.

All Equilibria of the Multi-Unit Vickrey Auction (with Andreas Blume, Paul Heidhues, Jonathan Lafky, and Meixia Zhang), Games and Economic Behavior (2009), Vol. 66 (2), 729-741.

Simultaneous Inter- and Intra-Group Conflicts, Economic Theory (2007), Vol. 32 (2), 333-352.

Selection Tournaments, Sabotage, and Participation, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2007), Vol. 16 (4), 943-970.