Benny Moldovanu

Benny Moldovanu is Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn, where he holds the Chair of Microeconomics. He is a principal investigator in the Collaborative Research Center TR 224 (CRC TR 224) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy, as well as the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics and the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE).

Education:

• Detailed curriculum vitae available at CV link.

Research Interests:
His research focuses on auctions and mechanism design, microeconomic theory, information design, voting theory, and dynamic allocation problems. He has made significant contributions to understanding strategic behavior in auctions, optimal voting rules, and the design of mechanisms under incomplete information.

Recent Publications Trend:
Recent work (2020–2025) explores entropy-regularized optimal transport in information design, optimal security design for risk-averse investors, order independence in sequential voting, and insurance design under adverse selection. These studies combine sophisticated theoretical tools with applications in finance, political economy, and market design.

Scientific Awards and Honors:

• Winner of the first AEA Best Paper Award for the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2009) for “Dynamic Revenue Maximization with Heterogeneous Objects: A Mechanism Design Approach”.

Advising and Doctoral Training:
Professor Moldovanu has supervised a large cohort of doctoral students and postdocs, many of whom now hold faculty positions worldwide (e.g., Philipp Strack—Clark Medal recipient, Alex Gershkov, Andreas Kleiner, Xianwen Shi, Thomas Kittsteiner). He teaches Microeconomics II (summer 2025) and offers thesis supervision to BGSE students.

Labs and Research Groups:
He leads the Microeconomics Research Group at Bonn and coordinates research activities in the CRC TR 224 project B01, focusing on market design and information economics.