Consultation Hours

Semester: Thursday 10-12 a.m. (by appointment)
Semester break: by appointment

Research Interests

• Economics of trade marks and patents
• Spillovers, licensing and research cooperation
• Economics of innovation
• Competition policy
• Industrial organization

Publications

Conferences

Together with Valentine Millot I have organized a Workshop on Trade Marks and Trade Mark Data that was held at OECD on the 16^th & 17^th of July 2009. The workshop was financed by STRIKE, GESY and OECD. The program, papers and presentations are available here.

I organized a Workshop on the Economic Analysis of Trade Marks and Brands (pdf 50KB) at the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) in Alicante, Spain on the 5^th and 6^th of June 2008. The workshop was financed through STRIKE. Program and presentations are available here.

Research and consulting projects

• I have initiated the Trade Mark Project at INNO-tec.
• I acquired and directed the a study into the "Strategic use of patents and implications for enterprise and competition policies". This study was commissioned by DG Enterprise (ENTR 05/82) .The report, co-authored with Bronwyn Hall, Dietmar Harhoff, Alfonso Gambardella, Paula Giuri, Stefan Wagner and Karin Hoisl is available: pdf.
• Collaboration with Professor Robert K. von Weizsaecker on the analysis of the German Trade Fair sector.
• Collaboration with David Harbord of Market Analysis for the Freeserve/Wanadoo margin squeeze complaint against British Telecom in the broadband market in the U.K. in 2003.
• Collaboration with  David Harbord of Market Analysis and Angel Hernando for a study into "Market Definition in European Sports Broadcasting and Competition for Sports Broadcasting Rights".  A Study for DGIV of the European Commission by Market Analysis Ltd,  October 1999.
• Research for competition case into the merger of Airtours and First Choice in 2000 in the U.K. for ELSE in a team led by Ken Binmore.

Teaching

• I have closely supported the following doctoral students who have completed their thesis at INNO-tec: Martin Heibel and Philipp Sandner. I am currently supporting Silvia Appelt, Richard Weber and Robert Redweik.
• In 2008/2009 I taught the main introductory course for PhD students at Munich School of Management together with Professor Reiner Leidl.
• I regularly teach courses on industrial organization and analysis of competition for economics and business studies students at all levels.
• I regularly teach courses on innovation management at the bachelor and master level.
• I have taught a course on Innovation Policy at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) for several years.
• In 2008 I taught a course on the Economics of Trademarks at the ESSID Summer School held in Monte St. Angelo, Italy.

Referee

• Management Science
• Economic Journal
• Journal of Industrial Economics
• International Journal of Industrial Organization
• Research Policy
• Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization
• Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
• Berkeley Economic Press
• Revue d'Economie et de Statistique
• Journal of Population Economics
• Kredit und Kapital

Stipends and Awards

• Postgraduate Scholarship of the ESRC at University College in London (2002-2003).
• Prize given by the Verein für Socialpolitik for a presentation at the 56th European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Lausanne, August 2001.
• Prize given by EARIE for a presentation at the 28th meeting of EARIE, Dublin, September 2001.

Curriculum Vitae

Born in 1971. I am married and have two children.

Memberships

• INFORMS
• Verein für Socialpolitik
• American Economic Association
• American Law and Economics Association
• Econometric Society
• European Association for Research in Industrial Organization
• German Economic Association of Business Administration

• Publications