Prof. Dr. Roland Strausz

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7111-1486

Roland Strausz chairs the Institute of Economic Theory 1 at the School of Business and Economics. He received his doctorate at the Freie Universitaet Berlin in 1998, where he finished his habilitation in 2005. He is principal investigator in the CRC TR190 "Rationality and Competition". Prof. Strausz is member of the council “Economic Theory” and “Industrial economics” of the Verein für Socialpolitik and a research Fellow in the CESIfo Network and CEPR. He is further a founding member of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS). His research interests are contract theory, mechanism design, and industrial organization. His work has been published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, and other international journals. He is associate editor at Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Review of Economic Design and Journal of Economics.

Organisational Affiliations

Projects

01/2025 - 12/2028	CRC/TRR 190/3: Optimal dynamic contracting, enforcement and ambiguity (SP B02)
10/2023 - 09/2028	Data Privacy in Digital Markets (PRIVDIMA)
01/2021 - 12/2024	CRC/TRR 190/2: Optimal dynamic contracting, enforcement and ambiguity (SP B02)
10/2019 - 09/2025	Leibniz ScienceCampus "Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies" (BCCP) – 2nd Funding Period
01/2017 - 12/2020	CRC/TRR 190/1: Optimal Dynamic Contracting (SP B02)
09/2015 - 10/2019	Berlin Center for Consumer Policy
10/2011 - 12/2016	RTG Interdepedencies in the regulation of markets
09/2011 - 02/2015	CLIMATE POLICY IN A RELUCTANT WORLD: FROM SECOND-BEST APPROACHES TO GLOBAL COOPERATION
01/2009 - 12/2011	Market Power in Vertically Related Markets
01/2009 - 12/2016	SFB 649/2: Regulatory Risk (TP A 08)
01/2004 - 12/2015	SFB/TR 15 I-III: Auctions and Competition (TP A 7)