Martin Watzinger
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Peer-reviewed publications

Standing on the Shoulders of Science  
with Monika Schnitzer and Joshua L. Krieger
Strategic Management Journal, 45.9 (2024): 1670-1695.
Coverage: HBS Working Knowledge, Matt Clancy's New Things Under the Sun

The Employment Effect of Countercyclical Public Investments  
with Lukas Buchheim
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 15 (1) (2023): 154-73.
Coverage: Ökonomenstimme (in German)

Fostering the Diffusion of General Purpose Technologies: Evidence from the Licensing of the Transistor Patents 
with Monika Schnitzer and Markus Nagler
Journal of Industrial Economics, 70.4 (2022): 838-866.
Coverage: VoxEU, FAU alexander (in German)


ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET 
with Kathrin Wernsdorf and Markus Nagler
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 211 (2022): 104678.


Measuring the Spillovers of Venture Capital  
​with Monika Schnitzer
The Review of Economics and Statistics 104.2 (2022): 276-292.
​Coverage: VoxEU

Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program 
with Jeffrey L. Furman and Markus Nagler
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 13(4), 2021. 
Coverage: AEA Chart of the Week, Brookings, Written Description, CATO Research Brief, VoxEU, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report "Safeguarding the Bioeconomy", Matt Clancy's New Things Under the Sun

How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree 
with Markus Nagler, Thomas Fackler, and Monika Schnitzer
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12(4): 328-359 (2020).
AEJ: Policy Best Paper Award 2021
Coverage: YouTube-EEA, Vox, Latest Thinking, New York Times, The Register, The American Prospect, Center for American Progress, Wired, Gilbert: "Innovation Matters: Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy", AEA Chart of the Week, FAU alexander (in German), ifo Schnelldienst (in German)

Job Creation in Tight and Slack Labor Markets 
with Matthias Wilhelm and Lukas Buchheim
Journal of Monetary Economics 114 (2020): 126-143​.

The Capital Gains Tax: A Curse but Also a Blessing for Venture Capital Investment 
with Carolin Bock
Journal of Small Business Management 57.4 (2019): 1200-1231.

​Contract Enforcement and R&D Investment 
with Michael Seitz
Research Policy 46.1 (2017): 182-195.  ​

​The Effect of a Credit Crunch on Equilibrium Market Structure
Computational Economics 48.1 (2016): 105-130.
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The Allocation of Talent over the Business Cycle and its Long-Term Effect on Sectoral Productivity 
with Michael Böhm
Economica 82.328 (2015): 892-911. 
Coverage: Guardian,  Times