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Igor Letina

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Working papers

  1. Philipp Brunner & Igor Letina & Armin Schmutzler, 2022. "Research joint ventures: the role of financial constraints," ECON - Working Papers 416, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Jul 2023.
  2. Igor Letina & Armin Schmutzler & Regina Seibel, 2021. "Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies," Diskussionsschriften dp2003, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft.
  3. Igor Letina & Shuo Liu & Nick Netzer, 2017. "Delegating performance evaluation," ECON - Working Papers 266, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Nov 2018.
  4. Jean-Michel Benkert & Igor Letina & Georg Nöldeke, 2017. "Optimal search from multiple distributions with infinite horizon," ECON - Working Papers 262, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Dec 2017.
  5. Jean-Michel Benkert & Igor Letina, 2016. "Designing dynamic research contests," ECON - Working Papers 235, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Aug 2019.
  6. Letina, Igor & Benkert, Jean-Michel, 2016. "Designing Dynamic Research Tournaments," VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change 145738, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  7. Igor Letina & Armin Schmutzler, 2015. "Inducing variety: a theory of innovation contests," ECON - Working Papers 200, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Feb 2019.
  8. Schmutzler, Armin & Letina, Igor, 2015. "Designing Innovation Contests for Diversity," CEPR Discussion Papers 10736, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  9. Igor Letina, 2013. "The road not taken: competition and the R&D portfolio," ECON - Working Papers 127, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Aug 2015.

Articles

  1. Letina, Igor & Liu, Shuo & Netzer, Nick, 2020. "Delegating performance evaluation," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 15(2), May.
  2. Igor Letina & Armin Schmutzler, 2019. "Inducing Variety: A Theory Of Innovation Contests," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 60(4), pages 1757-1780, November.
  3. Benkert, Jean-Michel & Letina, Igor & Nöldeke, Georg, 2018. "Optimal search from multiple distributions with infinite horizon," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 15-18.
  4. Igor Letina, 2016. "The road not taken: competition and the R&D portfolio," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 47(2), pages 433-460, May.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Philipp Brunner & Igor Letina & Armin Schmutzler, 2022. "Research joint ventures: the role of financial constraints," ECON - Working Papers 416, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Jul 2023.

    Cited by:

    1. Brunner, Philipp & Letina, Igor & Schmutzler, Armin, 2024. "Research joint ventures: The role of financial constraints," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).

  2. Igor Letina & Armin Schmutzler & Regina Seibel, 2021. "Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies," Diskussionsschriften dp2003, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft.

    Cited by:

    1. Prado, Tiago S. & Bauer, Johannes M., 2022. "Big Tech platform acquisitions of start-ups and venture capital funding for innovation," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 59(C).
    2. Fumagalli, Chiara & Motta, Massimo & Tarantino, Emanuele, 2022. "Shelving or developing? Optimal policy for mergers with potential competitors," CEPR Discussion Papers 15113, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Chiara Fumagalli & Massimo Motta & Emanuele Tarantino, 2022. "Shelving or developing? The acquisition of potential competitors under financial constraints," Working Papers 680, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
    4. Schmutzler, Armin & Letina, Igor & Seibel, Regina, 2021. "Killer Aquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies," VfS Annual Conference 2021 (Virtual Conference): Climate Economics 242420, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    5. Gugler, Klaus & Szücs, Florian & Wohak, Ulrich, 2023. "Start-up Acquisitions, Venture Capital and Innovation: A Comparative Study of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft," Department of Economics Working Paper Series 340, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    6. Brunner, Philipp & Letina, Igor & Schmutzler, Armin, 2024. "Research joint ventures: The role of financial constraints," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
    7. Christian Fons-Rosen & Pau Roldan-Blanco & Tom Schmitz, 2022. "The Effects of Startup Acquisitions on Innovation and Economic Growth," Working Papers 944, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance.
    8. Gilbert, Richard J. & Katz, Michael L., 2022. "Dynamic merger policy and pre-merger product choice by an entrant," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    9. Stöhr, Annika, 2021. "Price effects of horizontal mergers: A retrospective on retrospectives," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers 151, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics.
    10. Pauline Affeldt & Reinhold Kesler, 2021. "Competitors’ Reactions to Big Tech Acquisitions: Evidence from Mobile Apps," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1987, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    11. Kaplow, Louis, 2021. "Horizontal merger analysis," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    12. Javier Donna & Pedro Pereira, 2024. "Structural Presumptions for Non-Horizontal Mergers in the 2023 Merger Guidelines: A Primer and a Path Forwar," Working Papers 331, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
    13. Ginger Zhe Jin & Mario Leccese & Liad Wagman, 2022. "How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy," NBER Working Papers 29642, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    14. Álvaro Parra & Guillermo Marshall, 2024. "Monopsony Power and Upstream Innovation," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 72(2), pages 1005-1020, June.
    15. Katz, Michael L., 2021. "Big Tech mergers: Innovation, competition for the market, and the acquisition of emerging competitors," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    16. Lefouili, Yassine & Madio, Leonardo, 2023. "Market Structure and Investments : A Progress Report," TSE Working Papers 23-1491, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), revised Sep 2024.
    17. Marc Bourreau & Axel Gautier, 2024. "Innovation and Startup Acquisition," CESifo Working Paper Series 11569, CESifo.
    18. Christopher Teh & Dyuti Banerjee & Chengsi Wang, 2022. "Acquisition-induced kill zone," Monash Economics Working Papers 2022-24, Monash University, Department of Economics.
    19. Esmée Dijk & José Luis Moraga-González & Evgenia Motchenkova, 2023. "Start-up Acquisitions and the Entrant’s and Incumbent’s Innovation Portfolios," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 23-047/VII, Tinbergen Institute.
    20. Christoph Carnehl & Johannes Schneider, 2021. "A Quest for Knowledge," Papers 2102.13434, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2024.
    21. Steven Callander & Niko Matouschek, 2022. "The Novelty of Innovation: Competition, Disruption, and Antitrust Policy," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(1), pages 37-51, January.

  3. Igor Letina & Shuo Liu & Nick Netzer, 2017. "Delegating performance evaluation," ECON - Working Papers 266, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Nov 2018.

    Cited by:

    1. Letina, Igor & Liu, Shuo & Netzer, Nick, 2022. "Optimal Contest Design: Tuning the Heat," CEPR Discussion Papers 14854, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Shuo Liu & Dimitri Migrow, 2019. "Designing organizations in volatile markets," ECON - Working Papers 319, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.
    3. Letina, Igor & Liu, Shuo & Netzer, Nick, 2020. "Delegating performance evaluation," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 15(2), May.
    4. Mikhail Drugov & Dmitry Ryvkin, 2018. "Tournament Rewards and Heavy Tails," Working Papers w0250, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR).
    5. Nilssen, Tore & Kundu, Tapas, 2018. "Delegation of Regulation," Memorandum 12/2017, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
    6. Oleg Muratov, 2021. "All-Pay Auctions with Reserve Price and Bid Cap," Diskussionsschriften dp2106, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft.
    7. Lang, Matthias, 2022. "Stochastic Contracts and Subjective Evaluations," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 329, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
    8. Xinhao He & Jin Li & Zhaoneng Yuan, 2022. "Optimal Subjective Contracting with Revision," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(8), pages 6346-6354, August.
    9. Andrzej Baranski & Sumit Goel, 2024. "The effect of competition in contests: A unifying approach," Papers 2410.04970, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2025.
    10. Axel Ockenfels & Dirk Sliwka & Peter Werner, 2024. "Multi-rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 307, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
    11. Mengxi Zhang, 2023. "Optimal Contests with Incomplete Information and Convex Effort Costs," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2023_156v2, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.

  4. Jean-Michel Benkert & Igor Letina & Georg Nöldeke, 2017. "Optimal search from multiple distributions with infinite horizon," ECON - Working Papers 262, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Dec 2017.

    Cited by:

    1. Grossman, Gene & Helpman, Elhanan, 2020. "When Tariffs Disturb Global Supply Chains," CEPR Discussion Papers 15177, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Gene M. Grossman & Elhanan Helpman, 2021. "When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains," Working Papers 2021-73, Princeton University. Economics Department..
    3. Joosung Lee & Daniel Li, 2022. "Sequential Search With Adaptive Intensity," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 63(2), pages 803-829, May.

  5. Jean-Michel Benkert & Igor Letina, 2016. "Designing dynamic research contests," ECON - Working Papers 235, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Aug 2019.

    Cited by:

    1. Letina, Igor & Liu, Shuo & Netzer, Nick, 2022. "Optimal Contest Design: Tuning the Heat," CEPR Discussion Papers 14854, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Th'eo Durandard, 2023. "Dynamic delegation in promotion contests," Papers 2308.05668, arXiv.org.
    3. Dmitry Ryvkin, 2022. "To Fight or to Give Up? Dynamic Contests with a Deadline," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(11), pages 8144-8165, November.
    4. Matros, Alexander & Ponomareva, Natalia & Smirnov, Vladimir & Wait, Andrew, 2022. "Search without looking," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).

  6. Letina, Igor & Benkert, Jean-Michel, 2016. "Designing Dynamic Research Tournaments," VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change 145738, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.

    Cited by:

    1. Dmitry Ryvkin, 2022. "To Fight or to Give Up? Dynamic Contests with a Deadline," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(11), pages 8144-8165, November.

  7. Igor Letina & Armin Schmutzler, 2015. "Inducing variety: a theory of innovation contests," ECON - Working Papers 200, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Feb 2019.

    Cited by:

    1. Bavly, Gilad & Heller, Yuval & Schreiber, Amnon, 2020. "Social Welfare in Search Games with Asymmetric Information," MPRA Paper 98838, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Schmutzler, Armin & Letina, Igor & Seibel, Regina, 2021. "Killer Aquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies," VfS Annual Conference 2021 (Virtual Conference): Climate Economics 242420, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    3. Brunner, Philipp & Letina, Igor & Schmutzler, Armin, 2024. "Research joint ventures: The role of financial constraints," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
    4. Jean-Michel Benkert & Igor Letina, 2020. "Designing Dynamic Research Contests," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 12(4), pages 270-289, November.
    5. Koh, Youngwoo, 2017. "Incentive and sampling effects in procurement auctions with endogenous number of bidders," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 393-426.

  8. Schmutzler, Armin & Letina, Igor, 2015. "Designing Innovation Contests for Diversity," CEPR Discussion Papers 10736, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Letina, Igor & Benkert, Jean-Michel, 2016. "Designing Dynamic Research Tournaments," VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change 145738, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.

  9. Igor Letina, 2013. "The road not taken: competition and the R&D portfolio," ECON - Working Papers 127, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Aug 2015.

    Cited by:

    1. Bavly, Gilad & Heller, Yuval & Schreiber, Amnon, 2020. "Social Welfare in Search Games with Asymmetric Information," MPRA Paper 98838, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Stefano Comino & Fabio M. Manenti, 2020. "Patent Portfolios and Firms Technological Choices," "Marco Fanno" Working Papers 0254, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno".
    3. Schmutzler, Armin & Letina, Igor & Seibel, Regina, 2021. "Killer Aquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies," VfS Annual Conference 2021 (Virtual Conference): Climate Economics 242420, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    4. Marc Bourreau & Pinar Doğan & Matthieu Manant, 2016. "Size of RJVs with partial cooperation in product development," Post-Print hal-02085282, HAL.
    5. Brunner, Philipp & Letina, Igor & Schmutzler, Armin, 2024. "Research joint ventures: The role of financial constraints," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
    6. Kaustav Das & Nicolas Klein, 2024. "Do Stronger Patents Lead To Faster Innovation? The Effect Of Clustered Search," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 65(2), pages 915-954, May.
    7. José Luis Moraga-González & Evgenia Motchenkova & Saish Nevrekar, 2019. "Mergers and Innovation Portfolios," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 19-085/VII, Tinbergen Institute.
    8. Jean-Michel Benkert & Igor Letina, 2020. "Designing Dynamic Research Contests," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 12(4), pages 270-289, November.
    9. Schmutzler, Armin & Letina, Igor & Seibel, Regina, 2020. "Start-up Acquisitions and Innovation Strategies," VfS Annual Conference 2020 (Virtual Conference): Gender Economics 224631, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    10. Dorgyles C. M. Kouakou, 2023. "Competing against ‘invisibles’: the effect of competition from informal firms on formal firms’ R&D," Eurasian Business Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 13(1), pages 87-117, March.
    11. Anna Rita Bennato & Stephen Davies & Franco Mariuzzo & Peter Ormosi, 2019. "Mergers and Innovation: Evidence from the Hard Disk Drive Market," Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) 2018-04v3, Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
    12. Christoph Carnehl & Johannes Schneider, 2021. "On Risk and Time Pressure: When to Think and When to Do," Papers 2111.07451, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2022.
    13. Giulio Federico & Fiona Scott Morton & Carl Shapiro, 2019. "Antitrust and Innovation: Welcoming and Protecting Disruption," NBER Chapters, in: Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 20, pages 125-190, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    14. Massimo Motta & Emanuele Tarantino, 2018. "The Effect of Horizontal Mergers, When Firms compete in Prices and Investments," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2018_056, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
    15. Hagspiel, Verena & Kort, Peter M. & Nunes, Cláudia & Pimentel, Rita & Støre, Kristian, 2021. "Capacity optimization of an innovating firm," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
    16. Lefouili, Yassine & Madio, Leonardo, 2023. "Market Structure and Investments : A Progress Report," TSE Working Papers 23-1491, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), revised Sep 2024.
    17. Joshua L. Krieger & Xuelin Li & Richard T. Thakor, 2022. "Find and Replace: R&D Investment Following the Erosion of Existing Products," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(9), pages 6552-6571, September.
    18. Kaustav Das & Nicolas Klein, 2020. "Do Stronger Patents Lead to Faster Innovation? The Effect of Duplicative Search," Discussion Papers in Economics 20/03, Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester.
    19. Bennato, Anna Rita & Davies, Stephen & Mariuzzo, Franco & Ormosi, Peter, 2021. "Mergers and innovation: Evidence from the hard disk drive market," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    20. Esmée Dijk & José Luis Moraga-González & Evgenia Motchenkova, 2023. "Start-up Acquisitions and the Entrant’s and Incumbent’s Innovation Portfolios," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 23-047/VII, Tinbergen Institute.
    21. Christoph Carnehl & Johannes Schneider, 2021. "A Quest for Knowledge," Papers 2102.13434, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2024.
    22. Richard J. Gilbert, 2019. "Competition, Mergers, and R&D Diversity," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 54(3), pages 465-484, May.
    23. Steven Callander & Niko Matouschek, 2022. "The Novelty of Innovation: Competition, Disruption, and Antitrust Policy," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(1), pages 37-51, January.

Articles

  1. Letina, Igor & Liu, Shuo & Netzer, Nick, 2020. "Delegating performance evaluation," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 15(2), May.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Igor Letina & Armin Schmutzler, 2019. "Inducing Variety: A Theory Of Innovation Contests," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 60(4), pages 1757-1780, November.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Benkert, Jean-Michel & Letina, Igor & Nöldeke, Georg, 2018. "Optimal search from multiple distributions with infinite horizon," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 15-18.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  4. Igor Letina, 2016. "The road not taken: competition and the R&D portfolio," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 47(2), pages 433-460, May.
    See citations under working paper version above.Sorry, no citations of articles recorded.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 11 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-INO: Innovation (9) 2013-07-15 2014-02-02 2015-08-01 2015-08-07 2016-10-09 2017-03-12 2020-03-02 2020-08-17 2022-08-08. Author is listed
  2. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (7) 2015-08-01 2015-08-07 2016-10-09 2017-03-12 2017-10-08 2017-11-12 2022-08-08. Author is listed
  3. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (5) 2013-07-15 2014-02-02 2020-03-02 2020-08-17 2022-08-08. Author is listed
  4. NEP-PPM: Project, Program and Portfolio Management (3) 2013-07-15 2014-02-02 2022-08-08
  5. NEP-TID: Technology and Industrial Dynamics (3) 2013-07-15 2020-08-17 2022-08-08
  6. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (2) 2013-07-15 2020-03-02
  7. NEP-SBM: Small Business Management (2) 2020-03-02 2022-08-08
  8. NEP-CFN: Corporate Finance (1) 2020-03-02
  9. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (1) 2017-11-12
  10. NEP-DES: Economic Design (1) 2017-11-12
  11. NEP-ENT: Entrepreneurship (1) 2020-03-02
  12. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2017-11-12
  13. NEP-IND: Industrial Organization (1) 2022-08-08
  14. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (1) 2022-08-08

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