Hello
I am interested in how digitization affects consumers, firms and markets, and how this shapes incentives to innovate. My research spans topics such as Intellectual Property and Economics of Data and Artificial Intelligence. I teach strategy, innovation, applied econometrics and data science.
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Selected publications
full list - work in progress - media coverage
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Open at the Core: Moving from Proprietary Technology to Building a Product on Open Source Software (with Jérémie Haese), forthcoming in Management Science. Last working paper version. Article on Promarket.
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Beefing IT up for your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub (2025, with Annamaria Conti and Maria Roche). Organization Science, 36(4), 1551-1573. Best Paper Award at Strategy Science Conference. Last working paper version.
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The Editor and the Algorithm: Recommendation Technology in Online News (2024, with Ananya Sen and Jörg Claussen). Management Science, 70(9), 5816-5831. Last working paper version. Best Paper Award at WISE.
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Copyright Levies and Cloud Storage: Ex-ante Policy Evaluation with a Field Experiment (2024). Research Policy, 53(2), 104918. Reprinted in Kommunikation & Recht 2025, Heft 09, Beilage, 22-35.
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Batman Forever? The Role of Trademarks for Reuse in the US Comics Industry (2023, with Alexander Cuntz and Franziska Kaiser). Research Policy, 52(8), 104820. Last working paper version.
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Regulatory Spillovers and Data Governance: Evidence from the GDPR (2022, with Stefan Bechtold, Michail Batikas and Tobias Kretschmer). Marketing Science, 41(4), 318-340. Last working paper version, short presentation. VoxEU Article.
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Digitization, Prediction and Market Efficiency: Evidence from Book Publishing Deals (2022, with Imke Reimers). Management Science, 68(9), 6355-7064. Last working paper version. Publishers Weekly Article.
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Video Killed the Radio Star? Online Music Videos and Recorded Music Sales (2020, with Tobias Kretschmer). Information Systems Research, 31(3), 776–800. Last working paper version. VoxEU Article.
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Demand Variation, Strategic Flexibility and Market Entry: Evidence from the U.S. Airline Industry (2018, with Jörg Claussen and Christian Essling), Strategic Management Journal, 39(11), 2877-2898. Last working paper version.
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Catch Me if You Can: Effectiveness and Consequences of Online Copyright Enforcement (2018, with Luis Aguiar and Jörg Claussen), Information Systems Research, 29(3), 656-678. Last working paper version.
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R&D Outsourcing and Intellectual Property Infringement (2015, with Philipp Buss), Research Policy, 44(4), 977-989. Last working paper version (including online appendix).