I study how laws, markets, and other societal institutions affect firms' incentives to invest in R&D and disclose their inventions to the public. I further study how these institutions and their role in R&D affect the competitive environment in the respective industries. My main field of research is innovation economics. I am also interested in the law and economics of privacy, contracts, and litigation.
Publications (peer-reviewed)
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Contributions to Edited Volumes and Special Issues
Markups for Consumers Journal of Economics and Statistics (Special Issue: Market Power and Concentration Developments), 241(5-6), 2021 (November), pp 701-734 with Alex Kann and Ilona Tsanko
Verbraucherpreisaufschläge in Deutschland
Report for the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV), April 2021 with Alexander Kann and Ilona Tsanko
Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation in Standards Development with Timothy Simcoe and Emanuele Tarantino; September 2018 Revise & resubmit, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(Slides, NBER Working Paper 24358, CEPR Discussion Paper DP12733)
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws with Imke Reimers; latest version: February 2022
Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity with Justus Baron, Nicola Persico, Timothy Simcoe, and Emanuele Tarantino; March 2021 Revise & resubmit, Research Policy