Venture capital (VC) is often seen as an instrumental tool that allows many start-ups to pursue innovation with the potential to shake-up current markets and/or to replace incumbents. Using a highly granular, project-level dataset from preclinical diabetes R&D, this paper shows that VCs actively steer the direction of R&D and streamline activities of research focused firms (pipeline firms)...
The tremendous growth of digital transactions – mainly through online platforms - is profoundly affecting the way we interact and opening vast opportunities to improve our lives. Consumers are benefiting from an unprecedented proliferation of new services and products that previously were too costly to be developed and marketed to customers. At the same time, the characteristics of platform...
In der Diskussion über die Patente für Corona-Impfstoffe hat sich Angela Merkel gegen eine Freigabe ausgesprochen. Marcel Fratzscher hält das für einen der schwerwiegendsten Fehler ihrer Kanzlerschaft, der Deutschland und Europa geopolitisch weiter schwächt. Dieser Text erschien am 10. Mai 2021 als Gastbeitrag in der Welt. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) lehnt die Initiative ...
Dieser Text erschien am 6.1.2021 als Gastbeitrag im SPIEGEL. Die EU hat bei der Planung der Impfkampagne einiges richtig gemacht – und einen entscheidenden, leider aber fast zwangsläufigen Fehler. Dessen Wurzeln liegen tief: in einer völlig verqueren öffentlichen Fehlerkultur. Die hochemotionale Debatte über die schleppende Verteilung von Impfstoffen richtet nachhaltigen Schaden ...
This paper contributes to the debate on the internationalization of the R&D activity of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Specifically, we examine the following research questions: (1) What are the determinants of the MNEs’ R&D internationalization level? (2) What types of internationalization strategies—home-base-augmenting (HBA), home-base-exploiting (HBE), technology-seeking (TS), and/or market-seeking ...
We construct a fund-specific measure of crowding using the equity holdings overlap of 17,364 global funds which are actively managed. Funds in the top decile of crowding underperform the passive benchmark by 1.4% per year. The poor performance cannot be attributed to fees and transaction costs alone. When we explore the economics behind crowding, we establish that the diseconomies of crowding are distinct ...
We investigate patterns in common ownership networks between firms that are active in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry for the period 2004–2014. Our main findings are that “brand firms”—that is, firms that have research and development capabilities and launch new drugs—exhibit relatively dense common ownership networks with each other that further increase significantly in density over time, whereas ...
This paper analyzes two dimensions of factors of political trust in Russia. The first dimension is the target dimension (sociotropic vs. egocentric), the second dimension is the time dimension (retrospective vs. perspective). The study is based on the microdata of 2016 Life in Transition Survey (LiTS) of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. We find a robust evidence in favor of the ...