Eugen Kovac

Position:   Junior Professor for Applied Microeconomics and Management at the University of Bonn, Germany Address:   Department of Economics, University of Bonn, Adenauerallee 24–26, 53113 Bonn, Germany Phone:   +49 228 / 73 79 82 Email:   Education Ph.D. in Economics (2007), Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE), 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 Financial Markets: Market Selection

Publications

• 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, 9 (5), 1-9
  Additional files are available here.
   
• On φ-convergence and φ-density
  Mathematica Slovaca, 2005, 55 (3), 329-351
   

Working papers

• Tying and Entry Deterrence in Vertically Differentiated Markets (November 2007)
  Revise-and-resubmit in The RAND Journal of Economics    (earlier version: CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 266, August 2005)
   
• Technological Leadership and Persistence of Monopoly under Endogenous Entry: Static versus Dynamic Analysis (June 2009), with Viatcheslav Vinogradov and Kresimir Zigic
  Revise-and-resubmit in The Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control    (earlier version: CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 316, January 2007)
   
• Reversibility in Dynamic Coordination Problems (October 2009), with Jakub Steiner
  (earlier version: extended working paper, November 2008)
   
• International Competition in Vertically Differentiated Markets with Innovation and Imitation: Trade Policy versus Free Trade (December 2008), with Kresimir Zigic
  (earlier version: CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 336, August 2007)
  Supplementary Appendix is available here.
   
• Financing of Competing Projects with Venture Capital (October 2007), with Katerina Goldfain
  (earlier version: Bonn Econ Discussion Paper No. 37/2005)
   
• On Compatibility in Two-Sided Markets (October 2007), with Katerina Goldfain
   
• Speculation and Survival in Financial Markets (June 2006)
  (earlier version: CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 276, October 2005)
   
• Product Bundling and Tying in Competition (June 2006)
  (earlier version: CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 225, June 2004)
   
• A Survey of Collusion in Gasoline Markets (Abstract), with Alexandra Putzova and Alena Zemplinerova
  CERGE-EI Discussion Paper No. 2005-148, October 2005
   

Work in progress

• Blocking Patents and Patent Fences: Patenting Behavior of Firms in Complex and Discrete Industries (Abstract), with Katerina Goldfain