ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY

We are pleased to welcome, Dr. Johannes Moenius, Director of International Business Initiatives at the University of Redlands who will bring a local perspective to the current economic environment.

Johannes Moenius is an economist with a strong empirical focus.  In his research, he is interested in how domestic institutions affect international trade as well as how geography shapes economic decision. 

He joined the faculty of the School of Business at the University of Redlands in the fall of 2005, where he teaches courses in international business

 Before coming to Redlands,  he taught at the Kellogg School of Management. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. He is originally from Germany, where he studied Management Science at BambergUniversity. Then he studied Economics at the TechnicalUniversity in Dresden, Queen’s University, Canada and the University of California, San Diego, where he received his Ph.D.

In his research, he is interested in how domestic and international institutions affect international trade. Besides the effect of legal institutions on trade, he has written several papers on the effects of technical standards on trade flows and the dynamics of comparative advantage, for which he visualized his results in an online atlas using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He recently applied GIS to the analysis of the housing market in Southern California.

He has also worked on the dynamics of network effects in platform technologies and competition between political parties. He has presented his work in more than 80 talks that he gave at universities, conferences, and government institutions. His work has won two best paper awards and appeared, amongst others in The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, and the International Journal of Industrial Organization.