Christian Peukert

Christian Peukert serves as Professor of Digitization, Innovation and Intellectual Property at HEC Lausanne (Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Lausanne) and leads the Digital Markets Lab. His research examines how digitization transforms consumer behavior, firm strategies, and market dynamics, with particular focus on intellectual property frameworks and the economics of data and artificial intelligence. He actively contributes to the Digital Economy Network and teaches courses in strategy, innovation, applied econometrics, and data science.

Peukert's research interests center on the economic implications of digital transformation across multiple domains. His work investigates copyright economics in the digital age, AI regulation challenges, open source software business models, and the impact of data governance frameworks like GDPR. He explores how technological changes affect market efficiency in creative industries including publishing, music, and comics, while examining the relationship between innovation incentives and intellectual property systems in digital environments.

His publication portfolio demonstrates strong interdisciplinary engagement across law, economics, and computer science, with recent articles appearing in top journals like Management Science, Research Policy, and Organization Science. Notable research trends include examining AI training data economics, analyzing digital market regulation effectiveness, and studying the welfare impacts of mobile internet access policies. His work frequently employs empirical methods including field experiments, natural experiments, and large-scale data analysis.

Peukert has received significant recognition for his scholarly contributions, including:

• Best Paper Award at Strategy Science Conference for research on startup funding and open source communities
• Best Paper Award at WISE for work on news recommendation algorithms
• Best Paper Award at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2024 for research on AI training data dynamics

His research has attracted media attention from major outlets including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, and VoxEU, demonstrating the policy relevance of his work. Peukert maintains active collaborations with researchers across Europe and regularly contributes to policy discussions on digital markets and intellectual property through his leadership in the Digital Markets Lab and Digital Economy Network.