Manuel
Mueller-Frank

Professor of Economics

• Ph.D. in Economics, Northwestern University
• M.A. in Economics, Northwestern University
• Degree in Economics, University of Bonn

Manuel Mueller-Frank is Professor in the Department of Economics. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics at Northwestern University, and holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Bonn.

Professor Mueller-Frank teaches global economics, managerial economics and cryptocurrency courses in the MiM, MBA, Executive MBA and other executive education programs.

His research lies at the intersection between economic theory and mathematics. His areas of specialization include game theory, the economics of information and learning dynamics.

Professor Mueller-Frank’s research is published in leading academic journals such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

Areas of interest.

• Economics of Information
• Social Networks

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

MUELLER-FRANK, M. (2024). As strong as the weakest node. The impact of misinformation in social networks. Journal of Economic Theory (215), Article 105773. doi:10.1016/j.jet.2023.105773. ARIELI, I., BABICHENKO, Y., MUELLER-FRANK, M. (2022). Naive learning through probability overmatching. Operations Research, 70 (6), 3420-3431. doi:10.1287/opre.2021.2202. CHEN, Y.-C., MUELLER-FRANK, M., PAI, M. M. (2022). Continuous implementation with direct revelation mechanisms. Journal of Economic Theory, 201, Article 105422. doi:10.1016/j.jet.2022.105422.

Proceedings

CHEN, Y.-C., MUELLER-FRANK, M., PAI, M. M. (2023). The Wisdom of the crowd and higher-order beliefs. EC '23: Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.

Non-refereed articles

MUELLER-FRANK, M. (2020). Globalization, diversification and COVID-19. IESEconomics. MUELLER-FRANK, M. (2020). Globalización, diversificación y COVID-19. IESEconomics.

Cases

MUELLER-FRANK, M., ANDERS, R., VILAPLANA, R. (2025). The Rise and Fall of Terra/Luna. IESE, ECON-434-E. MUELLER-FRANK, M., VILAPLANA SELLARÈS, R. (2025). El Salvador: Bitcoin as legal tender. IESE, ECON-431-E. MUELLER-FRANK, M. (2021). Política monetaria no convencional posterior a la crisis financiera del 2007-2008. IESE, ECON-423.

Outputs in other media

MUELLER-FRANK, M. (2017). Problemas complexos, soluções simples. Valor Econômico. MUELLER-FRANK, M. (2016). Xisto, fator de mudança do mercado. Valor Econômico. MUELLER-FRANK, M. (2014). Redes sociales 'online': ¿hacen del mundo un lugar mejor? El Mundo, Madrid.