My interests range from topics in d igitization and AI to i nnovation and IP rights. What excites me is conducting research that advances our understanding of the digital economy and shapes its future directions.
O ver the last decades, we have been observing how digitization and AI has been affecting the creative industries. By analyzing these changes, I hope to shed light on the broader implications of digital disruption for firms and consumers alike. You can find my CV here. Kaiser, F. Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry. Research Policy , 52 8 , We study how trademarks affect reuse of creative works in the comics industry. As a creative industry, the comics industry systematically relies on copyrights.
But trademark protection can also be exploited to generate income from the reuse of comic characters or to strategically exclude others from reuse. Our unique data set combines US trademark records of comic characters with information on reuse in print media and franchise products from to We highlight three mechanisms: first, the negative relationship between trademarking and reuse has been especially pronounced since the early s, when the arrival of digital technologies lowered the costs of entry, promotion, and distribution.
Second, our results are driven by less reuse by third parties, not trademark holders. Third, reuse is higher when trademark owners license comic characters to third parties. Priem, M. Informationsdienst Soziale Indikatoren , 64, October 3, marked the 30th anniversary of the German reunification.
However, three decades have not yet been enough to completely equalize life satisfaction between East and West Germans. After a continuous shrinking of the "happiness gap" of self-reported life satisfaction in the late s and early s, the difference was smaller than ever in , but had not been completely overcome.
