Florian Morath joined the research unit Market Processes and Governance in April 2006. He studied Business Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and at the University of Lausanne.

Since October 2009 he is an associated research fellow at the research project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism".

He joined the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law as a research fellow in October 2009 and is an associated research fellow at the research project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism".

Research interests: Public finance, theory of contests, uncertainty and information

Born on June 1, 1979, in Bremen

University education in Business Engineering at the universities of Karlsruhe and Lausanne

Diploma in Business Engineering (University of Karlsruhe)

Research Fellow, Department: Market Processes and Governance at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and PhD student in the Berlin Doctoral Program of Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS)

• Strategic Information Acquisition and the Mitigation of Global Warming, forthcoming in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, (Working paper version, Discussion Paper SP II 2008 – 11, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 2008)
• Private versus Complete Information in Auctions (with Johannes Münster), Economics Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 3, 2008, 214-216 
• Information Acquisition in Conflicts (with Johannes Münster), Discussion Paper SP II 2009 – 10, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 2009 
• Information Sharing in Contests (with Dan Kovenock and Johannes Münster)