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Robin Döttling

Institution

Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD Year

2019

doettling@rsm.nl

FTG Membership

Member

Website

https://www.robindoettling.org

Areas of Expertise

Banking & Financial Intermediation Corporate Finance Monetary Economics Sustainable Finance & Esg

Featured Work

Intellectual Property Protection for AI-Generated Output

Mar 6, 2026

Robin Döttling

Generative AI has the potential to transform corporate innovation, but intellectual property (IP) created without sufficient human input is ineligible for protection by IP systems. We model a firm’s choice of AI versus human-capital use when investing in innovation, with IP protection granted based on a noisy signal of human-capital use. We derive a sufficient statistic for the IP policy’s effect on incentives and characterize...

Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs Shareholders

Jun 5, 2025

Robin Döttling, Doron Levit, Nadya Malenko, Magdalena Rola-Janicka

We study the interplay between a "one person-one vote" political system and a "one share-one vote" corporate governance regime. If shareholders push firms for more pro-social policies, political backlash may arise, undoing ESG initiatives. In a frictionless economy, shareholder democracy becomes irrelevant: the political system fully offsets shareholder influence. With public policy frictions, pro-social corporations can mitigate regulatory shortcomings and enhance corporate public goods provision....