Clemens Mueller

Clemens Mueller is an Assistant Professor in Finance at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research explores how finance can serve society through empirical studies in corporate finance, focusing specifically on innovation dynamics, labor markets, and entrepreneurial finance ecosystems. Mueller investigates critical questions about human capital allocation, innovation incentives, and educational outcomes using large-scale datasets and causal inference methods.

His primary research examines:

• Impact of non-compete agreements on labor mobility and productivity
• Effects of employees' angel investments on corporate innovation
• Gender gaps in educational persistence following early academic failure
• Career consequences of motherhood for inventors
• Behavioral patterns in IPO pricing mechanisms