Bernhard Ganglmair is head of ZEW’s Junior Research Group “Competition and Innovation” and professor of economics at the University of Mannheim. He is also member of the board of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) and member of the working group Competition Economics of the German Federal Cartel Office. Prior to joining ZEW, he was an assistant professor of managerial economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. In the past, he taught at the University of Linz, Austria, and Northeastern University in Boston, US. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Bologna in Italy, Haifa University in Israel, and Boston University. His research covers a variety of topics related to technology standardization and patents, trade secrets, competition economics, contracts, and the economic analysis of law more generally.
His work is both theoretical and empirical in nature and has been published in the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. He is an Associate Editor at Economic Inquiry. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and an undergraduate degree in business and economics from the University of Linz in Austria.
Selected Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
Ganglmair, Bernhard, Noah Myung and Alex Holcomb (2020), Expectations of Reciprocity when Competitors Share Information: Experimental Evidence, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 170, 244-267.
Ganglmair, Bernhard (2019), Installment Contracts and Material Breach, Supreme Court Economic Review 26 (2018), 1-46. Download
Ganglmair, Bernhard (2017), Efficient Material Breach of Contract , The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 33(3), 507-540. Download
Froeb, Luke M., Bernhard Ganglmair and Steven Tschantz (2016), Adversarial Decision Making: Choosing between Models Constructed by Interested Parties, Journal of Law and Economics 59(3), 527-548. Download
Ganglmair, Bernhard and Emanuele Tarantino (2014), Conversation With Secrets, RAND Journal of Economics 45(2), 273-302. Download
Froeb, Luke M., Bernhard Ganglmair and Gregory J. Werden (2012), Patent Hold Up and Antitrust: How a Well-Intentioned Rule Could Retard Innovation, Journal of Industrial Economics 60(2), 249-273. Download
Monographs, Contributions to Edited Volumes
Werden, Gregory J., Luke M. Froeb, Bernhard Ganglmair and Steven Tschantz (2020), Technology Economics: Innovation, Licensing, and Antitrust, in: Global Antitrust Institute Arlington, VA, 192-219.
Discussion and Working Papers
Ganglmair, Bernhard, Alexander Kann and Ilona Tsanko (2020), Markups for Consumers, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-079, Mannheim. Download
Ganglmair, Bernhard, Christian Helmers and Brian J. Love (2020), The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs, CRC TR 224 EPoS Discussion Paper 196-2020.
Ganglmair, Bernhard, Christian Helmers and Brian J. Love (2020), The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-037, Mannheim. Download
Ganglmair, Bernhard, Timothy Simcoe and Emanuele Tarantino (2019), Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation, NBER Discussion Paper No 24358.
Ganglmair, Bernhard and Imke Reimers (2019), Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws, CRC TR 224 EPoS Discussion Paper 119-2019.
Ganglmair, Bernhard and Imke Reimers (2019), Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-035, Mannheim. Download
Ganglmair, Bernhard, Alex Holcomb and Noah Myung (2019), Expectations of Reciprocity when Competitors Share Information: Experimental Evidence, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-032, Mannheim. Download
Expertises
Ganglmair, Bernhard, Nadine Hahn, Michael Hellwig, Alexander Kann, Bettina Peters and Ilona Tsanko (2020), Price Markups, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Germany, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh. Download
Research Reports
- M&A-Report
- M&A-Report
- M&A-Report
Projects
Current Projects
- Project Duration 04.01.2021 - 15.03.2021A Business-Consumer Imbalance. Analysis of Market Power and Consumption-Specific Price Markups in Germany
- Project Duration 01.03.2020 - 31.08.2021The Market for Medical Products and Instruments: Competition and Innovation
- Project Duration 01.05.2019 - 31.03.2021SEEK Project 2019: Cross and Common Ownership of Firms and Their Effect on Competition and Innovation
- Project Duration 01.07.2005 - 31.12.2021M&A-Report
Finished Projects
- Project Duration 01.04.2019 - 31.12.2019Industry Concentration and Innovation as Driver of the Productivity Slowdown
More Information
Teaching Activities and Stand-in Professors
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FS 2020:
Lecture
"Economics of Innovation",
University of Mannheim, Germany -
HS 2020:
Lecture
"Competition Economics",
University of Mannheim, Germany -
FS 2019:
Seminar
"Topics in Competition Economics",
University of Mannheim, Germany -
HS 2019:
Lecture
"Competition Economics",
University of Mannheim, Germany
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FS 2020:
Lecture
"Economics of Innovation",
Publishing Activities for Journals/Series
- 2014: Mitglied Redaktionskollegium Economic Inquiry
Organisation of Academic Conferences and Workshops
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Eleftheria Triviza, University of Mannheim,
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ganglmair,
Seminar,
MaCCI/EPoS Virtual IO Seminar,
Mannheim, Germany, 2020
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Emanuele Tarantino, LUISS Rome,
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ganglmair,
CRC TR 224-MaCCI-ZEW Workshop "Economics of Innovation",
Mannheim, Germany, 2020 -
Prof. Dr. Lea Tochtermann,
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ganglmair,
LLL:reportdata.label.workshop.reportDataConference,
MaCCI Law & Economics Conference "IP Proceedings",
Mannheim, Germany, 2019
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Eleftheria Triviza, University of Mannheim,
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ganglmair,
Seminar,
MaCCI/EPoS Virtual IO Seminar,
Lectures
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2020:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence From Trade Secrets,
Econometric Society World Congress (online),
Bocconi University, Milano, Italien -
2020:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence From Trade Secrets,
Annual Conference Verein für Socialpolitik,
University of Cologne, Deutschland -
2020:
Price Markups, Competition, and Productivity: Evidence from Germany,
Market Power Trends: Evidence and Implications for Germany and Europe,
Berlin, Deutschland
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2020:
The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs,
MACIE Seminar,
Universität Marburg, Deutschland -
2020:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence From Trade Secrets,
Research Seminar,
Paris, France, Frankreich -
2020:
For Selecting Diversity, Representation is Insufficient: Empirical Evidence from the IETF,
Economics Seminar,
Portsmouth, Vereinigtes Königreich -
2020:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence From Trade Secrets,
Research Seminar in Economics,
Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Deutschland -
2020:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence From Trade Secrets,
Cornell Virtual Strategy Seminar,
Mannheim and Ithaca, NY, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) -
2020:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence From Trade Secrets,
MSI Seminar,
KU Leuven, Belgien -
2020:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws,
Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association NOeG 2020 Vienna, February 24 – 25, 2020,
Wien, Österreich
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2020:
Price Markups, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Germany,
OECD Global Forum on Productivity (Webinar Series),
Berlin, Deutschland
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2019:
Complexity, Standardization, and the Design of Loan Agreements,
Online Workshop on the Computational Study of Law (OWCAL),
Online, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) -
2019:
The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs,
Third NOeG WU Winter Workshop,
Wien, Österreich
more information -
2019:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws,
Research Seminar,
Munich, Deutschland -
2019:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws,
Third Annual TPRI IP Day,
Boston, Massachusetts, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
more information -
2019:
Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation in Standards Development,
First Annual Empirical Conference on Standardization,
Chicago, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
more information -
2019:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws,
9th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting,
Mannheim, Deutschland
more information -
2019:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws,
Annual Conference of the Leibniz ScienceCampus MaCCI - Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation,
ZEW, Deutschland
more information -
2019:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws,
3rd Workshop Series on Innovation,
Luxemburg, Luxemburg -
2019:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws,
CRC TR 224 Conference,
Mainz, Deutschland
more information -
2019:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws,
DICE Research Seminar,
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Deutschland
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2020:
Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence From Trade Secrets,
Research Affiliations
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2020 - until now:
Professor,
Universität Mannheim, Deutschland -
2019 - until now:
Affiliated Researcher,
Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI), Deutschland
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2020 - until now:
Professor,
Function
Head of Junior Research Group
