Curriculum Vitae
Wolfgang Maennig is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg.
Previously, he was a professor at the E.A.P. Paris-Oxford-Berlin-Madrid. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); the Universities of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Istanbul; the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; and the American University in Dubai. He has also been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., and at the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt.
His research focuses on economic policy, sports economics, and urban and real estate economics. His work has been published in numerous academic journals, including the Journal of Economic Geography, the Journal of Urban Economics, Labour Economics, Economic Letters, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, Environment and Planning A, Transportation, the Journal of Sports Economics, and Real Estate Economics. He is co-editor of the “International Handbook on the Economics of Mega Sporting Events” and of “Understanding German Real Estate Markets.”
Wolfgang Maennig is an Olympic champion in the eight (1988), a recipient of the Olympic Order, and honorary chairman of the German Rowing Association. He has served as an expert on many bids for major sporting events, including the Olympic bids for Berlin 2000, Hamburg 2012, Leipzig 2012, Munich 2018, and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.