Professor Dr Steffen Müller

Current Position
since 10/14
Head of the Department of Structural Change and Productivity
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
since 10/14
Professor of Economics: Productivity and Innovations
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
since 5/20
Head of IWH Bankruptcy Research
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
Research Interests
- firm productivity
- empirical labour economics
- economic gap between East and West Germany
Steffen Müller is Professor at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and head of the Department of Structural Change and Productivity at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) since 2014. He is a Fellow of the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) as well as a member of the standing committees for population economics and social policy of the German Economic Association.
Steffen Müller studied economics at the University of Leipzig. At the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, he worked as a research assistant for Professor Riphahn from 2005 till 2014. He received his doctoral degree in economics in 2009 and finished his habilitation in 2014. Steffen Müller stayed at the University of California in Davis during his PhD studies and visited the University of California in Berkeley as a Postdoc.