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Marek Giebel

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Subjects
Economics Finance Innovation Entrepreneurship Automatisation Technology

Primary research areas

Intellectual property rights

My research in this area concerns patent litigation, patent system design, and research disclosure.

Science and technology transfer

My research in this area concerns the licensing and commercialization of research, and topics related to publicly funded research in general.

Finance and innovation

My research in this area concerns the impact of credit supply, financial constraints, shocks to financial markets, and the subsidization of research on innovation.

Organization and employment

My research in this area concerns the hiring and impact of consultants on firms, the foundation and effects of employee representation and the impact of new technologies on workers.

Management and competition

My research interests in this area concern the impact of management incentives on collusion, the effect of CEO overconfidence on collusion, and the relationship between AI and collusion.

Entrepreneurship

My research interests in this area concerns the determination of who becomes a successful entrepreneur and why, and how change to startup costs affect entrepreneurial outcomes.

I provide data-based evidence on innovation and markets

I am an applied economist working at the intersection of industrial organization, innovation, and finance. My research studies how intellectual property rights, financing conditions, and firm strategy shape inventive activity, market performance, and labor outcomes. 

Empirically, I combine microeconomic theory with causal inference, machine learning, and text-based measurement. Current projects examine research disclosure, intellectual property protection and enforcement, science-to-market transfer (e.g., NASA technology licensing), the relationship between artificial intelligence and competition, and the finance-innovation margin. 

The aim of my research is to provide evidence that informs competition and innovation policy and firm decisions. 

Outside activities

Currently, I have no outside employments or activities