Promotie C. Fiedler

This dissertation consists of three articles on competition, cooperation, and standardization with a focus on the important sectors of the digital age. The first chapter studies modern software markets and how their unique characteristics impact firms’ reactions to their competitors’ R&D efforts. The second chapter investigates a firm’s incentives to invest in a common standard and how its choices are driven by the conflict between benefitting from the collective contributions and supporting its competitors. The third chapter studies standard-setting organizations and the impact implementers’ participation has on the standard’s market coverage and royalty rates.

CLEMENS MARIA BENEDICT FIEDLER (Linz, Austria, 1988) obtained his B.Sc. degree in Business, Economics, and Social Sciences and M.Sc. in Economics from Vienna University of Economics and Business. In 2013 he joined the Research Master in Economics at the CentER Graduate School of Tilburg University where he obtained his M.Sc. degree in 2015. He joined the Department of Economics at Tilburg University as a Ph.D. student and the Tilburg Law and Economics Center as a junior member where he was supervised by prof. dr. Jan Boone and dr. Florian Schütt. Since October 2019 he works as an economic researcher at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.

• Locatie: Cobbenhagen building, Aula 
• Promotor: prof. dr. J. Boone
• Copromotor: dr. F. Schütt