Research

Fields of interest

Empirical Industrial Organisation, Competition Policy, Media Economics.

Published papers

The Effect of Mergers on Variety in Grocery Retailing (with Paolo Buccirossi, Roberto Cervone, Tomaso Duso and Alessia Marrazzo), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021, 79.

A retrospective evaluation of the GDF/Suez merger: Effects on the Belgian gas hub (with Albert Banal-Estañol and Jo Seldeslachts), Energy Journal, 2021, 42 (6).

Merger Policy in Digital Markets: An Ex-Post Assessment (with Paolo Buccirossi, Emilio Calvano, Tomaso Duso, Alessia Marrazzo and Salvatore Nava), Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2021, 17(1): 95–140. [Vox column]

Ex post Merger Evaluation in the UK Retail Market for Books (with Luca Aguzzoni, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso and Massimo Tognoni), Journal of Industrial Economics, 2016, 64 (1): 170–200.

A Retrospective Merger Analysis in the UK Videogames Market (with Luca Aguzzoni, Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Massimo Tognoni and Cristiana Vitale), Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2014, 10 (4): 933-958.

Acquisition of information and share prices: An empirical investigation of cognitive dissonance (with Helmut Lütkepohl and Massimo Motta), German Economic Review, 2010, 11(3): 381-396.

Estimating market power in a two-sided market: the case of newspapers (with Lapo Filistrucchi), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (7): 1247-1266.

Market Definition in Printed Media Industries: Theory, Practice and Lessons for Broadcasting (with Marc Ivaldi), in Paul Seabright and Juergen von Hagen (eds.), The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

“Piracy and Product Differentiation in the Market for Digital Goods” (with Matteo Alvisi and Emanuela Carbonara), Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, a. VIII, n. 2, 2003.

Working papers

Estimating Demand with Multi-Homing in Two-Sided Markets (with Pauline Affeldt and Lapo Filistrucchi), 2021, CentER Discussion Paper; Vol. 2021-025, CentER, Center for Economic Research.