Armin Schmutzler is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich and Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Research and the European Network for Competition and Regulation. His other website is http://www.econ.uzh.ch/faculty/schmutzler.html
Innovation and Spillovers
Competition and investment - A unified approach, ECON Working Papers, University of Zurich (2012)
Using a simple but general two-stage framework, this paper identifies the circumstances under which increasing...
Foreign Direct Investment and R&D offshoring (with Hans Gersbach), Oxford Economic Papers (2011)
We analyze a two-country model of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Two firms, each of which...
Is there a U-shaped relation between competition and investment? (with Dario Sacco), International Journal of Industrial Organisation (2011)
We consider a two-stage game with cost-reducing investments followed by a linear differentiated Cournot duopoly....
Competition and Innovation: An Experimental Investigation (with Donja Darai and Dario Sacco), Experimental Economics (2010)
The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms' investments in process innovations....
Is Competition Good for Innovation? A Simple Approach to an Unresolved Question, Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics (2010)
The relation between the intensity of competition and R&D investmenthas received a lot of attention,...
Industrial Organisation
Competition and investment - A unified approach, ECON Working Papers, University of Zurich (2012)
Using a simple but general two-stage framework, this paper identifies the circumstances under which increasing...
Auctions vs Negotiations in Public Procurement: Which Works Better? (with Rafael Lalive), CEPR Working Paper (2011)
Public agencies rely on two key modes to procure goods and services: auctions and direct...
Is there a U-shaped relation between competition and investment? (with Dario Sacco), International Journal of Industrial Organisation (2011)
We consider a two-stage game with cost-reducing investments followed by a linear differentiated Cournot duopoly....
Competition and Innovation: An Experimental Investigation (with Donja Darai and Dario Sacco), Experimental Economics (2010)
The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms' investments in process innovations....
Is Competition Good for Innovation? A Simple Approach to an Unresolved Question, Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics (2010)
The relation between the intensity of competition and R&D investmenthas received a lot of attention,...
Economic Theory
A unified approach to comparative statics puzzles in experiments, Games and Economic Behaviour (2011)
The paper shows that several game-theoretic solution concepts provide similar comparative statics predictions over a...
Merger Negotiations and Ex Post Regret (with Dennis Gärtner), Journal of Economic Theory (2009)
We consider a setting in which two potential merger partners each possess private information pertaining...
All-Pay Auctions with Negative Prize Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence (with Dario Sacco) (2008)
The paper characterizes the mixed-strategy equilibria in all-pay auctions with endogenous prizes that depend positively...
Network Industries
Auctions vs Negotiations in Public Procurement: Which Works Better? (with Rafael Lalive), CEPR Working Paper (2011)
Public agencies rely on two key modes to procure goods and services: auctions and direct...
Entry in liberalized railway markets: The German experience (with Rafael Lalive), Review of Network Economics (2008)
In Germany, competitive franchising is increasingly being used to procure passenger railway services that were...
Exploring the effects of competition for railway markets (with Rafael Lalive), International Journal of Industrial Organisation (2008)
This paper studies the effects of introducing competition for local passenger railway markets in the...
Experimental Economics
A unified approach to comparative statics puzzles in experiments, Games and Economic Behaviour (2011)
The paper shows that several game-theoretic solution concepts provide similar comparative statics predictions over a...
Is there a U-shaped relation between competition and investment? (with Dario Sacco), International Journal of Industrial Organisation (2011)
We consider a two-stage game with cost-reducing investments followed by a linear differentiated Cournot duopoly....
Competition and Innovation: An Experimental Investigation (with Donja Darai and Dario Sacco), Experimental Economics (2010)
The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms' investments in process innovations....
Self-reinforcing market dominance (with Daniel Halbheer, Ernst Fehr, and Lorenz Götte), Games and Economic Behavior (2009)
Are initial competitive advantages self-reinforcing, so that markets exhibit an endogenous tendency to be dominated...
All-Pay Auctions with Negative Prize Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence (with Dario Sacco) (2008)
The paper characterizes the mixed-strategy equilibria in all-pay auctions with endogenous prizes that depend positively...
The Interaction of Product and Labor Markets
Does Globalization Create Superstars? A Simple Theory of Managerial Wages (with Hans Gersbach), SOI Working Papers, University of Zurich (2013)
To examine the impact of globalization on managerial remuneration, we consider a matching model where...
Product markets and industry-specific training (with Hans Gersbach), The RAND Journal of Economics (2012)
We develop a product market theory to explain why firms provide their workers with skills...
A Product-Market Theory of Industry-Specific Training (with Hans Gersbach), SOI Working Papers, University of Zurich (2007)
We develop a product market theory that explains why firms provide their workers with skills...
Behavioral Economics
Explaining Gift-Exchange - The Limits of Good Intentions (with Nick Netzer), ECON Working Papers, University of Zurich (2013)
This paper explores the limitations of intention-based social preferences as an explanation of gift-exchange between...
Environmental Economics
Local Transportation Policy and the Environment, Environmental and Resource Economics (2011)
The paper introduces a simple framework for analyzing the environmental effects of local transportation policies,...
Lobbying and the Power of Multinational Firms (with Andreas Polk and Adrian Muller), SOI Working Papers, University of Zurich (2010)
Are national or multinational rms better lobbyists? This paper analyzes the extent of national environmental...