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), 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

• 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

• Reversibility in Dynamic Coordination Problems (October 2011), with Jakub Steiner
  Earlier version: extended Working paper (July 2008)
   
• International Competition in Vertically Differentiated Markets with Innovation and Imitation: Trade Policy versus Free Trade (August 2011), with Kresimir Zigic
  Additional files: Supplementary Appendix
  [Revise-and-resubmit]
   
• Tying and Entry Deterrence in Vertically Differentiated Markets (November 2007)
  [Revise-and-resubmit]
   
• 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

• Optimal Sequential Delegation, with Daniel Krähmer
   
• Market Share Dynamics in a Duopoly Model with Word-of-Mouth Communication, with Robert Schmidt
   
• Blocking Patents and Patent Fences: Patenting Behavior of Firms in Complex and Discrete Industries (Abstract), with Ekaterina Goldfayn-Kovac