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Chair of Economic Policy

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Maennig

Professor Maennig

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Phone: +49 40 42838-4622

Email: Wolfgang.Maennig@uni-hamburg.de

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Recent Publications (Selection)

G. M. Ahlfeldt, W. Maennig, S. Q. Mueller (2022), The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects, European Journal of Political Economy, 72(March), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102120.

D. Korenkiewicz, W. Maennig (2022), Women on a corporate board of directors and consumer satisfaction, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-022-01012-y.

W. Maennig, C. Sattarhoff, P. Stahlecker (2022), Retire statistical significance? Reevaluation of the employment effects of the 2006 World Cup, International Journal of Sport Finance, 17(2), 73-88.

W. Maennig, V. C. E. Schumann (2022), Prevention effect of news shocks in anti-doping policies, Journal of Sports Economics, 23(4), 431-459, https://doi.org/10.1177/15270025211059528.

A. Eckert, W. Maennig (2021), Pharma-Innovationen: Überragende Position der USA und Schwächen der deutschen Forschung, Wirtschaftsdienst, 101(8), 652-659, https://www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/2021/heft/8/ beitrag/pharmainnovationen-ueberragende-position-der-usa-und-schwaechen-der-deutschen-forschung.html, DOI: 10.1007/s10273-021-2985-3.

W. Maennig (2021), (Anti-)Doping activities as rational choice, in: S. Altukhov & W. Andreff (Eds.), Doping in sport: What is important to know about it? Moskau: Unity (in Russian language).

G. M. Ahlfeldt, W. Maennig, M. Steenbeck (2020), Direct democracy and intergenerational conflicts in ageing societies, Journal of Regional Science, 60(1), 129-155, https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12448.

W. Beimer, W. Maennig (2020), On the Price Gap between Single Family Houses and Apartments, Journal of Housing Economics, 49, September, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2020.101686.

W. Maennig (2019), Major Events: Economic Impact, in: P. Downward, B. Frick, B. Humphreys, T. Pawlowski, J. Ruseski, & B. Soebbing (Eds.), Handbook of Sports Economics, pp. 356-366, SAGE Publications Ltd.

W. Maennig (2019), Olympic Games: Public referenda, Public Opinion and Willingness to pay, in: P. Downward, B. Frick, B. Humphreys, T. Pawlowski, J. Ruseski, & B. Soebbing (Eds.), Handbook of Sports Economics, pp. 367-376, SAGE Publications Ltd.

W. Maennig, C. Vierhaus (2019), Which countries bid for the Olympic Games? The Role of Economic, Political, Social, and Sports Determinants, International Journal of Sports Finance, 14, 110–126.

Upcoming External Events

18.06.23: Verkehr in Hamburg: Gegenwart und Zukunft, Katholische Gemeinde Sankt Sophien, Hamburg

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Wolfgang Maennig is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Hamburg University.

Before he was professor at E.A.P. Paris-Oxford-Berlin-Madrid. He was a visiting professor at the American University in Dubai as well as at the University of California Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Universities of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and of Istanbul, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and at the University of Economics Bratislava. He was also visiting scholar at International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., and at Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt.

His research concentrates on economic policy, sport economics, transport economics, and real estate economics and has been published in numerous academic journals, including Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Urban Economics, Labour Economics, Economic Letters, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Environment and Planning A, Transportation, Journal of Sports Economics, Real Estate Economics, Regional Studies, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Urban Studies, and Review of World Economics. He is co-editor of the International Handbook on the Economics of Mega Sporting Events (Edward Elgar Publishing) as well as Understanding German Real Estate Markets (Springer). 

Wolfgang Maennig has worked as an expert for many bids of large sport events, e. g. the Olympic bids of Berlin 2000, Leipzig 2012, Munich 2018 and the Athletics World Cup Berlin 2009. He was Olympic Champion (rowing, eight with coxswain) at the Olympics 1988 in Seoul and president of the German Rowing Federation, 1995-2001. In 2000, he received the Olympic Order.

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