Tobias König

Tobias König is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Economics at the Institute of Finance and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Bonn. He is also affiliated with the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TR 224, a major interdisciplinary research initiative focused on economic policy design and evaluation.

Research Interests: His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance, with a focus on monetary policy, banking stability, financial frictions, and firm-level heterogeneity. He investigates how labor market dynamics interact with credit markets, the role of financial constraints in investment, and the historical patterns of systemic bank runs.

The recent publications of Dr. König span both theoretical and empirical domains, contributing to our understanding of optimal monetary policy under financial frictions, the effectiveness of deposit insurance schemes in Europe, and the microeconomic foundations of aggregate financial shocks. His work often combines rigorous modeling with comprehensive data analysis, including newly constructed historical datasets on bank runs across 184 countries.

Scientific Contributions:

• Developed a New Keynesian banking model with endogenous financial accelerator to study optimal monetary policy.
• Constructed a novel, globally comprehensive dataset on systemic bank runs from 1800 to 2023.
• Provided empirical evidence on the investment channel of monetary policy using Norwegian administrative data.

Education:

• PhD in Economics, 2022, Humboldt University of Berlin
• MSc in Economics, 2016, Humboldt University of Berlin
• BSc in Economics, 2013, Humboldt University of Berlin

Dr. König actively presents his research at international conferences and seminars, including the World Congress of the Econometric Society and the Bank of England. He maintains a personal website and shares datasets and working papers openly. He advises no students listed in the provided materials and has no scientific awards mentioned. He is based in Bonn, Germany, and can be contacted via email at tkoenig@uni-bonn.de.