Eugen Kovac

Position:   Junior Professor for Applied Microeconomics and Management at the University of Bonn, Germany Address:   Department of Economics, University of Bonn, Adenauerallee 24–42, 53113 Bonn, Germany Phone:   +49 228 737982 Email:   Education Ph.D. in Economics (2007), Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE-EI), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic RNDr. in Mathematics (2002), Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics (FMPI), Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Research interests Industrial Organization: R&D and Innovation, Competition Policy, Two-Sided Markets Microeconomic Theory: Mechanism Design, Global Games

Publications

• Reversibility in Dynamic Coordination Problems, with Jakub Steiner
  Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 77 (1), 298-320.
  
  • Earlier versions: Working paper (May 2012), extended Working paper (July 2008).
  
  
• International Competition in Vertically Differentiated Markets with Innovation and Imitation: Trade Policy versus Free Trade (March 2012), with Kresimir Zigic
  Economica, forthcoming.
  
  • Additional files: Supplementary Appendix.
  
  
• Technological Leadership and Persistence of Monopoly under Endogenous Entry: Static versus Dynamic Analysis, with Viatcheslav Vinogradov and Kresimir Zigic
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (8), 1421-1441.
  
  • Additional files: Supplementary Appendix. Earlier version: Working paper (March 2010).
  
  
• Stochastic Mechanisms in Settings without Monetary Transfers: The Regular Case, with Tymofiy Mylovanov
  Journal of Economic Theory, 2009, 144 (4), 1373-1395.
  
  • Earlier version: Working paper (December 2007).
  
  
• Comparing Guessing Games with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Players: Experimental Results and a CH Explanation, with Andreas Ortmann and Martin Vojtek
  Economics Bulletin, 2008, 3 (9), 1-9.
  
  • Additional files are available here.
  
  
• On φ-convergence and φ-density
  Mathematica Slovaca, 2005, 55 (3), 329-351.
  
  • Fulltext of the paper in the Czech Digital Mathematics Library.
  
  

Working papers

• Optimal Sequential Delegation (April 2013), with Daniel Krähmer
   
• Market Share Dynamics in a Duopoly Model with Word-of-Mouth Communication (February 2013), with Robert Schmidt
   
• Tying and Entry Deterrence in Vertically Differentiated Markets (November 2007)
   
• Financing of Competing Projects with Venture Capital (October 2007), with Ekaterina Goldfayn-Kovac
   
• On Compatibility in Two-Sided Markets (October 2007), with Ekaterina Goldfayn-Kovac
   
• Speculation and Survival in Financial Markets (June 2006)
   
• Product Bundling and Tying in Competition (June 2006)
   

Work in progress

• Blocking Patents and Patent Fences: Patenting Behavior of Firms in Complex and Discrete Industries (Abstract), with Ekaterina Goldfayn-Kovac