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.