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
Reproducibility in Management Science Management Science, forthcoming Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (Note: I am a contributor)
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; latest version: February 2023 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
Soft-Landing Contract and Temporal Incompleteness with Julian Klix and Dongsoo Shin; latest version: March 2024
Equilibrium Effects of the Availability of Injunctions in Standard-Essential Patent Licensing with Benno Buehler and Dominik Fischer; latest version: September 2023