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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Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation in Standards Development
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics , 17(3), 2025, pp 1-27
with Timothy Simcoe and Emanuele Tarantino
Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity
Research Policy , 53(6), 2024, Article 104994
with Justus Baron, Nicola Persico, Timothy Simcoe, and Emanuele Tarantino
The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 38(3), 2022 (November), pp 741-773
with Christian Helmers and Brian J. Love
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
Expectations of Reciprocity when Competitors Share Information: Experimental Evidence
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization , 170, 2020 (February), pp 244-267
with Alex Holcomb and Noah Myung
(Online Appendix )
Installment Contracts and Material Breach
Supreme Court Economic Review , 26, 2018, pp 1-46 (lead article)
Efficient Material Breach of Contract
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 33(3), 2017 (August), pp 507-540
(Slides ,
Online Appendix )
Adversarial Decision-Making: Choosing Between Models Constructed by Interested Parties
Journal of Law and Economics , 59(3), 2016 (August), pp 527-548
with Luke Froeb and Steven Tschantz
(Slides , Online Appendix )
Conversation With Secrets
RAND Journal of Economics , 45(2), 2014 (Summer), pp 273-302
with Emanuele Tarantino
Patent Hold Up and Antitrust: How a Well-Intentioned Rule Could Retard Innovation
Journal of Industrial Economics , 60(2), 2012 (June), pp 249-273
with Luke Froeb and Greg Werden
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Special Issues
Effective Regulation and Firm Compliance: The Case of German Privacy Policies
In: Data Privacy Protection and the Conduct of Applied Research: Methods, Approaches and their Consequences , edited by Ruobin Gong, V. Joseph Hotz, and Ian M. Schmutte, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming
with Jacopo Gambato and Julia Krämer
Reproducibility in Management ScienceManagement Science , 70(3), 2024 (March), pp 1343-2022
Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (Note: I am a contributor)
Technology Economics: Innovation, Licensing, and Antitrust
In: Global Antitrust Institute Report on the Digital Economy , chapter 5, pp 192-219, November 2020
with Greg Werden, Luke Froeb, and Steven Tschantz
Policy Reports
Trusted Research and Innovation: How Knowledge Leakage Affects the Research & Innovation Ecosystem
IRC Report No. 024, Innovation and Research Caucus, Oxford, UK
with Nicola Searle and Maurizio Borghi
Verbraucherpreisaufschläge in Deutschland
Report for the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV), April 2021
with Alexander Kann and Ilona Tsanko
Price Markups, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Germany
Report for the Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh, Germany, July 2020
with Nadine Hahn, Michael Hellwig, Alexander Kann, Bettina Peters, and Ilona Tsanko
Working Papers (under review)
Hybrid Contracting in Repeated Interactions
with Julian Klix and Dongsoo Shin; latest version: August 2025
Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies
with Jacopo Gambato and Julia Krämer; latest version: July 2024
Do Judicial Assignments Matter? Evidence from Random Case Allocation
with Christian Helmers and Brian J. Love; latest version: January 2024
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws
with Imke Reimers; latest version: September 2024
Other Working Papers
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Competition and the Strategic Disclosure of Innovation: Theory and Evidence from Patent Applications
with David T. Angenendt; March 2025
User-Data Collection and Strategic Tracking Disclosure
with Jacopo Gambato; latest version: September 2024
Looking for Innovation Beyond the Patent System: Evidence from Research Disclosures
with Alexander Kann; latest version: July 2024
Equilibrium Effects of the Availability of Injunctions in Standard-Essential Patent Licensing
with Benno Buehler and Dominik Fischer; latest version: September 2023
The Rise of Process Claims: Evidence from a Century of U.S. Patents
with W. Keith Robinson and Michael Seeligson; April 2022
Complexity, Standardization, and the Design of Loan Agreements
with Malcolm Wardlaw; April 2017
Work in Progress
Networks and Power: Gender Effects of Random Selection Into an Administrative Elite
Do Commonly Held Firms Coordinate Their R&D? Evidence from Patents
Mergers and the Direction of Corporate Innovation
R&D Tax Credits and Directed Technological Change
Green Innovation: The Trade Secrets Gap
Commercial Motives for Standards Development: Evidence from Alice v. CLS Bank
Permanent Working Papers
Last changed: August 18, 2025