Hannes Mueller joined the IAE in September 2008, after completing the PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests are Political Economy and Development Economics – broadly defined. In his past research he has, for example, studied the impact of the Northern Irish conflict on housing prices, the interaction between bureaucratic and political institutions and the role of intrinsic motivation in not-for-profit organizations. Hannes is currently researching, amongst other things, the adoption of primary elections in political parties, the use of factors (labor and capital) in the military, the role of group identity in terrorism.
