I am a postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group “Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE)” and the Chair of Internet and Telecommunications Business, University of Passau. My research interests are in economics of information systems and industrial economics, focusing on using microeconomic theory to study questions related to competition, innovation, and regulation in the digital markets.
We examine the effect of the proposal to introduce essentiality checks for declared standard-essential patents on incentives to innovate.
This paper presents a model of multiple innovators, whose resulting inventions may be (imperfect) complements or substitutes, and derive the value-sharing rules that maximise the expected social value of innovation. Under this framework, the paper examines an influential policy in the context of standard setting, that royalties for standard-essential patents should reflect the outcome of a hypothetical competition prior to standard setting, and shows that in the presence of both potential complements and substitutes, the competitive outcome provides suboptimal incentives for innovation.
This paper examines the impact of setting one product as the default on competition and innovation in digital markets with (data-driven) network effects, with the prime example being search engines.