Prof. Dr. Thilo Klein
Prof. Dr. Thilo Klein
Market Design
Thilo Klein is a professor of quantitative economics at Pforzheim Business School and senior researcher in ZEW’s Research Unit “Market Design”, where he is responsible for the “Design of Matching Markets” programme. His research spans market design, matching theory, and empirical methods, with a focus on algorithmic mechanisms for allocating places and resources. He has published in Games and Economic Behavior and the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design and is a member of the Baden-Württemberg Doctoral Association. His projects have been funded by DAAD, ESRC, the Leibniz Association, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and the German Federal Ministries for Agriculture (BMLEH) and Economic Affairs (BMWE).
He is a co-founder of MatchingTools GmbH, which translates research on allocation mechanisms into software solutions and was nominated for the Leibniz Start-up Prize. Prior to his professorship, he worked at the OECD in Paris and the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. He studied economics and mathematics at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and completed a PhD in Business Economics at the University of Cambridge.
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Prof. Dr. Thilo Klein
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