Dr. Sebastian Stoll

Former Research Fellow

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research



Areas of Interest:

Theoretical and Empirical Industrial Organization, Theory and Empirics of Auctions, Economics of Branding, Patent System, Structural Estimation, Discrete Choice Modelling, Bayesian Estimation, Causal Econometric Inference

Academic Résumé

2013 - 2015
Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research). Doctoral Thesis: “Essays in Industrial Organization: Umbrella Branding, Non-Binding Auctions and Opaqueness of the Patent System” 

2013
Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)

2009 - 2014
Doctoral Candidate in Economics at LMU Munich

2007 - 2009
Master of Business Administration at RWTH Aachen University

2002-2007
Diploma in Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg  

Work Experience Includes Internships in the Medical Technology Industry and the Public Health Care Sector. Research Experience Includes Posts as Research Assistant at the Institute of Medical Physics in Erlangen, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Department of Economics at RWTH Aachen University and the London School of Economics.

Projects

Information Disclosure in Open Non-Binding Procurement Auctions

Get Under My Umbrella: Umbrella Branding and Consumer Inertia

Exploring the Opaqueness of the Patent System - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

SFB/TR 15