Felix Koenig
Assistant Professor of Economics
Felix Koenig is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.
His research explores how wages are set, how firms hire, and how new technologies reshape work and earnings.
Recent work examines how firms can overcome hiring difficulties through better wage-setting tools, the value workers place on non-wage job attributes such as workplace health risks and paid leave, and the role of technological change in driving winner-take-all labor markets.
Dr. Koenig draws on large-scale administrative data, randomized controlled trials, and digital platform data, and employs modern causal inference methods throughout his research.
He holds a Ph.D. and MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, and previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University. He is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), CESifo, the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), the Rockwool Foundation (RFBerlin), and the Stone Centre at UCL.