Associate Professor of Digitization, Innovation and Intellectual Property
HEC Lausanne (Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Lausanne)
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.
I am part of the Digital Economy Network and the Data Economy Project.
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Publications
Copyright Levies and Cloud Storage: Ex-ante Policy Evaluation with a Field Experiment (2024). Research Policy, 53(2), 104918.
The Welfare Effects of Mobile Internet Access: Evidence from Roam-Like-At-Home (2023, with Martin Quinn and Miguel Godinho de Matos). Forthcoming in The Economic Journal. Last working paper version.
The Editor and the Algorithm: Recommendation Technology in Online News (2023, with Ananya Sen and Jörg Claussen). Forthcoming in Management Science. Last working paper version. Best Paper Award at WISE 2019.
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.
Twin study reveals non-heritable immune perturbations in multiple sclerosis (2022, with Florian Ingelfinger et al.). Nature, 603, 152-158.
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.
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.
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.
Social Networks and the Demand for News (2019, with Lisa M. George). Information Economics and Policy, 49, 100833. Last working paper version.
Follow the Money: Online Piracy and Self-Regulation in the Advertising Industry (2019, with Michail Batikas and Jörg Claussen), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 65, 121-151. Last working paper version.
The Next Wave of Digital Technological Change and the Cultural Industries (2019), Journal of Cultural Economics, 43(2), 189–210. Last working paper version. Write-up for CulturalEconomics.org.
Determinants and Heterogeneity of Switching Costs in IT Outsourcing: Estimates from Firm-Level Data (2019), European Journal of Information Systems, 28(3), 291-317. Last working paper version.
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.
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.
Competition for Attention in the Digital Age: The Case of Single Releases in the Recorded Music Industry (2017, with Christian Essling and Johannes Koenen), Information Economics and Policy, 40, 26-40. Last working paper version.
Piracy and Box Office Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload (2017, with Jörg Claussen and Tobias Kretschmer), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 52, 188-215. Last working paper version.
R&D Outsourcing and Intellectual Property Infringement (2015, with Philipp Buss), Research Policy, 44(4), 977-989. Last working paper version (including online-appendix).
Work in the publication process
Open at the Core: Moving from Proprietary Technology to Building a Product on Open Source Software (with Jérémie Haese), revision requested at Management Science.
Work in progress or under review
The Risks of Risk-Based AI Regulation: Taking Liability Seriously (with Martin Kretschmer, Tobias Kretschmer and Alexander Peukert), also on SSRN and covered in VoxEU, Verfassungsblog and CREATe
The Economics of Copyright in the Digital Age (with Margaritha Windisch)
Reproducibility in Management Science (with Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A. - I was a member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration)
Beefing IT up for your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub (with Annamaria Conti and Maria Roche). Best Paper Award at Strategy Science Conference 2022.
Technology and Market Strategy in High-Tech Organizations (with Anthi Kiouka), nominated for Best Paper Prize and Responsible Research Paper Prize at SMS Annual Conference 2023.
How to Seed a Platform? Overcoming the Chicken-and-Egg Problem with Owned, Earned and Paid Media (with Tobias Kretschmer)
Who Benefits from Robots and AI? Project-level Evidence on Labor Demand, Operations and Profitability (with Erdem Dogukan Yilmaz)
Facebook Shadow Profiles (with Luis Aguiar, Maximilian Schaefer and Hannes Ullrich)
The Value of Data - Evidence from Webtracking (with Luis Aguiar, Tomaso Duso, Jonas Hanane and Hannes Ullrich)
The Returns to Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Pedro Ferreira, Miguel Godinho de Matos and Martin Quinn)
Get Rich or Die Tryin': Concerts and the Digitization of Recorded Music (with Franziska Kaiser)
Machine Translation and Bilateral Trade (with Lisa M. George)
Other publications
Implementing Digital Responsibility through Information Systems Research – A Delphi Study of Objectives, Activities, and Challenges in IS Research (2023, with Beverungen, D.; zur Heiden, P.; Lehrer, C.; Trier, M.; Bartelheimer, C.; Brandt, T.; Distel, B.; Drews, P.; Ehmke, J.F.; Fill, H.-G.; Flath, C.M.; Fridgen, G.; Grisold, T.; Janiesch, C.; Janson, A.; Krancher, O.; Krönung, J.; Kundisch, D.; Márton, A.; Mirbabaie, M.; Morana, S.; Mueller, B.; Müller, O.; Oberländer, A.M.; Peters, C.; Reuter-Oppermann, M.; Riehle, D.M.; Robra-Bissantz, S.; Röglinger, M.; Rosenthal, K.; Schryen, G.; Schütte, R.; Strahringer, S.; Urbach, N.; Wessel, L.; Zavolokina, L.; Zschech, P.), Wirtschaftsinformatik 23 Conference.
Daten als Wettbewerbsvorteil: Regulierer und Wettbewerbsbehörden sollten aufmerksam bleiben (2023, with Luis Aguiar, Jonas Hanane, Tomaso Duso and Hannes Ullrich). DIW Wochenbericht, 90(27), pp.366-373.
Plattformen wie Facebook können mehr als die Hälfte der Internetaktivität beobachten (2023, with Luis Aguiar, Maximilian Schaefer and Hannes Ullrich) DIW Wochenbericht, 89(29/30), pp.400-406.
Flexible Digital Supply Behavior (2019), in S. Cameron (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Cultural Economics, Chapter 4, 63-86, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
External Technology Supply and Client-Side Innovation (2012), in D. Audretsch, E. Lehmann, A. Link, A. Starnecker (Eds.), Technology Transfer in a Global Economy, 161-184, Springer, New York. Last working paper version.
Examples of media coverage
Facebook Shadow Profiles
Regulatory Spillovers and Data Governance: Evidence from the GDPR
Digitization, Prediction and Market Efficiency: Evidence from Book Publishing Deals
The Editor vs. the Algorithm: Targeting, Data and Externalities in Online News
Follow the Money: Online Piracy and Self-Regulation in the Advertising Industry
Catch Me if You Can: Effectiveness and Consequences of Online Copyright Enforcement
Video Killed the Radio Star? Online Music Videos and Recorded Music Sales
Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload