Dr. rer. pol. Sophia Gänßle

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• The Battle of YouTube, TV and Netflix – An Empirical Analysis of Competition in Audiovisual Media Markets, SN Business & Economics, Vol. 1 (9), 2021. (with Oliver Budzinski and Nadine Lindstädt-Dreusicke)
• Data (R)Evolution – The Economics of Algorithmic Search and Recommender Services, in:  S.  Baumann (ed.),  Handbook  of  Digital  Business  Ecosystems,  Cheltenham:  Elgar  2021. (with Oliver Budzinski and Nadine Lindstädt-Dreusicke)
• Stars in Social Media: New Light Through Old Windows). in: Journal of Media Business Studies, Vol. 18 (2), 2021, pp. 79-105. (with Oliver Budzinski)
• The economics of social media (super-)stars: an empirical investigation of stardom and success on YouTube, in: Journal of Media Economics, Vol. 31 (3-4), 2020. (with Oliver Budzinski)
• Der Entwurf zur 10. GWB Novelle: Interventionismus oder Laissezfaire? In: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, Vol. 46 (2), S. 157-184. (with Oliver Budzinski and Annika Stöhr)
• Outstanding Relevance across Markets: A New Concept of Market Power? in: Concurrences, Vol. 17 (3), 2020, pp. 38-43. (with Oliver Budzinski and Annika Stöhr)
• Happily Ever After? – Vertical and Horizontal Mergers in the U.S. Media Industry, in: World Competition Journal, Vol. 43 (1), 2020, pp. 135-165. (with Annika Stöhr, Victoriia Noskova, Philipp Kunz-Kaltenhäuser and Oliver Budzinski)
• Conquering the Box Office: Factors Influencing Success of International Movies in Russia, in: Review of Network Economics, Vol. 17 (4), 2019, pp. 245-266. (with Oliver Budzinski and Daria Astakhova)
• How Does Online Streaming Affect Antitrust Remedies to Centralized Marketing? – The Case of European Football Broadcasting Rights, in: International Journal of Sport Finance, Vol. 14 (3), 2019, pp. 147-157. (with Oliver Budzinski and Philipp Kunz-Kaltenhäuser).
   

Other Publications

• Wettbewerb und Antitrust in Unterhaltungsmärkten, in:  O.  Budzinski, J. Haucap, A. Stöhr & D. Wentzel (eds.), Zur Ökonomik von Sport, Entertainment und Medien – Schnittstellen und Hintergründe, Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021, pp. 111-143. (with Oliver Budzinski and Nadine Lindstädt-Dreusicke)
• Big  Data  Comes  to  Hollywood  – Audiovisuelle  Medienmärkte  im  Digitalen  Zeitalter,  in:  O.  Budzinski, J. Haucap, A. Stöhr & D. Wentzel (eds.), Zur Ökonomik von Sport, Entertainment und Medien – Schnittstellen und Hintergründe, Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021, pp. 181-199.
• Anmerkungen zur Auswirkung der Medienberichterstattung auf politische Meinungen und Wahlverhalten: Wettbewerbsordnung und das digitale Zeitalter, forthcoming in: M. Leschke & N. Otter (eds.), Wachstum und Entwicklung: Globale Instabilitäten und neue wirtschaftspolitische Konzepte, 52. Forschungsseminar Radein 2019, Berlin: DeGruyter 2020, pp. 206-216. (with Oliver Budzinski and Annika Stöhr)
• Marktformen, in: Herder Staatslexikon, Band 3, 8. Auflage, Freiburg: Herder, 2019, pp. 1435-1439. (with Oliver Budzinski)

• Using Economics to Explain YouTuber Popularity, in: LSE Business Review, 2019 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2019/05/13/using-economics-to-explain-youtuber-popularity/. (with Oliver Budzinski)

Working Paper

• Attention Economics of Instagram Stars: #Instafame and Sex Sells?, Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Vol. 27 (150), 2021.
• The Draft for the 10th Amendment of German Competition Law: Towards a new Concept of “Outstanding  Relevance  across  Markets”?  Ilmenau  Economics  Discussion  Papers,  Vol.  26(142), 2020. (with Oliver Budzinski and Annika Stöhr)
• Die Hörspielserie „Die drei ???“ – Der wirtschaftliche Erfolg und Gründe dafür, Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Vol. 26 (134), 2020, under review. (with Björn A. Kuchinke)
• What Drives Binge-Watching? An Economic Theory and Analysis of Impact Factors, Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Vol. 26 (138), 2020, under review. (with Philipp Kunz-Kaltenhäuser)

(attended and presented)

2021          

55. Hohenheimer Oberseminar (Ilmenau, November)

Media Economics DGPuK (Hamburg online, September)

21. International Conference on Cultural Economics (Lille/France online, July)

14. World Media Economics & Management Conference (Rome/Italy online, May)

54. Hohenheimer Oberseminar (Hohenheim online, April)

Invited Guest at Weizenbaum Institut “Plamadiso Talk” (Berlin online, March)

2020           

53. Radein Research Seminar (Radein/Italy, February); Macromedia Applied Research Symposium (MARS) (Munich, January)

2019                                      

53. Hohenheimer Oberseminar (Marburg, November)

PhD Course: Introduction to Applied Business Economics Research with Stata (Esbjerg/Denmark, August)

International Joint Doctoral Workshop (Charlotte/USA, July)

European Media Management Association Annual Conference (Limassol/Cyprus, June)

14. Gijón Conference on Sports Economics (Gijón/Spain, May)

Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (Coventry/England, April)

52. Hohenheimer Oberseminar (Weimar, April)

52. Radein Research Seminar (Radein/Italy, February) 

Auszeichnung Vortragsprämienprogramm Verein für Socialpolitik 2019

2018                                      

13. World Media Economics & Management Conference (Cape Town/South Africa, May); 50. Hohenheimer Oberseminar (Hohenheim, April)

2017                                      

49. Hohenheimer Oberseminar (Ilmenau, October); DGPuK Methodentagung 2017 (Mainz, September)

Media Economics, Seminar

Micro Economics, Lecture

Supervision of Seminar Papers

Supervision of Bachelor and Master Theses

Verein für Socialpolitik

Royal Economic Society

Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI)