Publications

• The Editor and the Algorithm: Recommendation Technology in Online News (2023, with Ananya Sen and Jörg Claussen), accepted at Management Science. Last working version. Best Paper Award at WISE 2019. 

• 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. EconomistsTalkArt Article.

• 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

• Batman Forever? How Trademarks affect Reuse (with Alexander Cuntz and Franziska Kaiser). Third revision requested at Research Policy.

• The Welfare Effects of Mobile Internet Access - Evidence from Roam-Like-At-Home (with Martin Quinn and Miguel Godinho de Matos). Third revision submitted to Economic Journal.

• 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 2022. Revision requested at Strategic Management Journal.

Work in progress or under review

• Specializing in Generality? Technology and Market Strategy (with Anthi Kiouka)

• Get Rich or Die Tryin': Concerts and the Digitization of Recorded Music (with Franziska Kaiser)

• Entry into Open Source: Evidence from Web Browsers (with Jérémie Haese)

• How to seed a platform? Overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem with owned, earned and paid media (with Tobias Kretschmer)

• Copyright Levies and Cloud Storage: Ex-ante Policy Evaluation with a Field Experiment

• Facebook Shadow Profiles (with Luis Aguiar, Maximilian Schaefer and Hannes Ullrich), DIW Wochenbericht (in German)

• Law and Economics of Copyright in the Digital Age: A Literature Review and Research Agenda (with Margaritha Windisch)

• The Returns to Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Pedro Ferreira, Miguel Godinho de Matos and Martin Quinn)

• Robots and AI: Project-level Evidence on Labor Demand, Productivity and Profitability (with Dogukan Yilmaz)

• The Value of Data - Evidence from Webtracking (with Luis Aguiar, Tomaso Duso, Jonas Hanane and Hannes Ullrich)

• Machine Translation and Bilateral Trade (with Lisa M. George)

Other publications

• Twin study reveals non-heritable immune perturbations in multiple sclerosis (2022, with Florian Ingelfinger et al.). Nature, 603, 152-158.

• 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.