Current research

Working and discussion papers

• Fugger, Nicolas and Ulrich Laitenberger: Split-Award Auctions and Supply Disruptions in the German Market for Generic Drugs. 2nd major revision requested at Production and Operations Management. Last version (April 2024)

• Hunold, Matthias, Laitenberger, Ulrich and Guillaume Thébaudin: The Power of Suppression: Amazon's Buybox Policy and Seller Coordination (November 2023).  previously circulated version: Bye-box: An Analysis of non-promotion on the Amazon market place. CRED Discussion Paper 2022 N°4 (June 2022), Economics of Platforms Seminar.  Last version available on request (October 2023).

• Gomez-Herrera, Estrella, Ulrich Laitenberger and Frank Müller-Langer: Platform market power in online labor markets: Evidence from a fee change. Reject and resubmit at Research Policy. Last version (May 2023). 

• Graef, Inge, Ulrich Laitenberger and Jens Prüfer: Charting a Way Forward for the Use of Data Science in Competition Enforcement and Platform Regulation

• Kummer, Michael, Ulrich Laitenberger, Daniel Hughes: When Care Breaks: Online Reviews and Healthcare Continuity.  Preparing resubmission. Last version available on request (September 2023).

Work in progress

• Eggenschwiler, Matthias, Ulrich Laitenberger and Max Pachali: The impact of sustainabilty label regulation.

• Hunold, Matthias, Heiko Karle, Ulrich Laitenberger and Jannika Schad: Seller Competition and Platform Coexistence: Evidence from Real Estate Platforms.

• Kotschedoff, Marco and Ulrich Laitenberger: More sustainable E-Commerce through Repairability? Evidence from the French Repairability Index.

Resting (available upon request)

• Belletti, Chiara, Ulrich Laitenberger and Paola Tubaro: Crowd-sourcing AI Related Tasks: Insights from an Online Labor Platform. April 2024.

• Fiuza, Eduardo, Ulrich Laitenberger, Alexis Larousse, and Christine Zulehner: Small firm policies: Right of first refusal in procurement auctions. September 2020.

• Magalhães Barros, Francisco, Marcus de Britto and Ulrich Laitenberger: Broadband internet and educational inequality: Evidence from the Covid19 pandemic in Brazil. September 2022.

PhD Supervisions

1. Raphaela Andres (Telecom Paris). Defended May 2024. PostDoc at ZEW.

2. Chiara Belletti (Telecom Paris, funded by ANR-HUSH). Defended May 2024. PostDoc at ISTO/LMU Munich

3. Francisco Magalhaes Barros (Telecom Paris, co-supervised with Marc Bourreau). Defense expected Fall 2024. Policy advisor at ARCEP

4. Ehsan Sabzizadeh (Tilburg University)