The 2006 Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize Laureate

Johannes Rincke

The Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize in 2006 was awarded to Johannes Rincke for his paper "Yardstick Competition and Public Sector Innovation".

Johannes Rincke was born on October 21st, 1972, in Stuttgart, Germany. He obtained his economics degree from the Free University of Berlin in 2001, and his doctorate with Summa cum laude from the University of Göttingen, Germany.

In March 2006 he became a Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Economics, Seminar for Economic Policy, University of Munich. He held the same position previously at the University of Mannheim, where he also was a Research Fellow at the Department for Public Finance and Corporate Taxation of the Centre for European Economic Research.

His research interests lie in public economics, regional and urban economics, local public finance, applied microeconometrics, and applied spatial econometrics.

He has published in the Journal of Urban Economics and in Public Choice.