2002
The Design of Optimal Education Policies, The Review of Economic Studies, 69, 2002, pp 437-466.
Contracts for Health Services: Quality versus Excess Capacity, Journal of Public Economics, 84, 2002, pp. 199-218; with Dieter Bös.
Product Market Competition, R&D, and Welfare, Research in Economics, 56, 2002, pp. 381-397; with Damiano Silipo.
Competition among Institutions and the Emergence of the Elite University, Bulletin of Economic Research, special issue on the “Economics of Education”, 54, 2002, pp. 275-293; with Elisabetta Iossa.
The Economics of Education: Editors’ Introduction, Bulletin of Economic Research, special issue on the “Economics of Education”, 54, 2002, pp. 205-208; with Richard Romano.
La regolamentazione delle tecniche di aggiudicazione degli appalti e delle concessioni: il caso italiano (The Legal Framework for Public Procurement in Italy), in Mario Baldassarri, Giampaolo Galli and Gustavo Piga (eds.), La competitività in Italia (Competitiveness in Italy), Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano, 2002, pp 228-255.
2001
Education Policies: Equity, Efficiency, and Voting Equilibrium, Economic Journal, 111, 2001, pp. C104-119.
Walras Retrouvé: Decentralised Trading Mechanisms and the Competitive Price, Journal of Political Economy, 109, 2001, pp. 842-863; with József Sákovics.
Short Term and Long Term Effects of Price Cap Regulation, International Journal of Developing Planning Literature, 2001, 16, pp. 51-59; special issue on “The Telecommunications in the 21st Century” edited by William J Baumol and Victor A Beker; with Alberto Iozzi.
Revenue Sharing Rules in International Telephony; Journal of Regulatory Economics, 20, 2001, pp. 5-20; with Paola Valbonesi.
Private and Public Schools: Theoretical Considerations, Lavoro e relazioni industriali, 2/2001, pp. 49-82; reprinted in Daniele Checchi and Claudio Lucifora (eds.), Education, Training and Labour Market Outcomes in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, pp. 38-68.
Competizione in mercati regolati: recenti sviluppi teorici (Competition in Regulated Markets: Recent Theoretical Developments), Rivista di Politica Economica, 91/2, 2001, pp. 47-77.
2000
Contracts for Health Care and Asymmetric Information, Journal of Health Economics, 19, 2000, pp. 663-677.
On Some Issues in the Theory of Competition in Regulated Markets, in George Norman and Jacques-François Thisse (eds.), Market Structure and Competition Policy: Game-theoretic Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 191-214.
Equilibrium Partner Switching in a Bargaining Model with Asymmetric Information; International Economic Review, 41, 2000, pp. 849-869; with Abhinay Muthoo.
Productive Efficiency in Public and Private Firms, in: David Parker (ed.) Privatisation and Corporate Performance, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2000,pp. 116-31; reprint of De Fraja (1993).
1999
Minimum Wage Legislation, Work Conditions, and Employment, Economica, 66, 1999, pp. 473-488.
After You Sir. Sequential Investment as a Solution to the Hold-up Problem, Games and Economic Behavior, 26, 1999, pp. 22-39.
Slot Allocation: A Model of Competition between Firms when Consumers Are Procedurally Rational, Mathematical Social Science, 38, 1999, pp. 71-81; with Indrajit Ray.
Regulation and Access Pricing in Privatised Utilities: Comparison of Regulatory Régimes, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 46, 1999, pp. 1-16; with Catherine Waddams Price.
Regulation and Access Pricing with Asymmetric Information, European Economic Review, 43, 1999, pp. 109-134.
1998
Price Caps and Output Floors: A Comparison of Simple Regulatory Rules, Economic Journal, 108, 1998, pp. 1404-1421; with Elisabetta Iossa.
Alternative Strategies of a Public Firm in Oligopoly, in: Anindya Sen (ed.) Industrial Economics, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1998, pp 491-503; re print of De Fraja and Delbono (1989).
Quality Considerations in Auctions for Television Franchises, Information Economics and Policy, Special Issue on Media and Multimedia Economics, 10, 1998, pp. 9-22; with Mariella M. Cabizza.
1997
Pricing and Entry in Regulated Industries: The Role of Regulatory Design, Journal of Public Economics, 64, 1997, pp. 259-278.
Entry, Prices, and Investment in Regulated Industries, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 11, 1997, pp. 257-270.
1996
Defence Procurement: Theory and UK Policy, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 12, no 4, 1996, pp. 70-88; with Keith Hartley.
Product Line Competition in Vertically Differentiated Markets, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 14, 1996, pp. 389-414.
Entrepreneurs or Managers: Who Runs the Firm?, Journal of Industrial Economics, 44, 1996, pp. 89-98.
An Empirical Analysis of Competition in Brand Differentiated Oligopoly, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 3, 1996, pp. 57-67; with Alessandra Staderini.
1995
In Praise of Public Firms, New Economy, 1995, pp. 177-180 (reviewed in The Guardian newspaper, Economics and Finance pages, 18/8/1995).
1994
A General Characterization of Multiproduct Cournot Competition, Bulletin of Economic Research, 46, 1994, pp. 171-183.
Chicken and Egg: What Should Come First, Privatisation or Liberalisation?, Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 33, 1994, pp. 133-156.
1993
Union and Wages in Public and Private Firms: A Game Theoretic Analysis, Oxford Economic Papers, 45, 1993, pp. 457-469.
Incentive Contracts for Public Firms, Journal of Comparative Economics, 17, 1993, pp. 581-599.
Product Differentiation, Pricing Policy and Equilibrium, Journal of Regional Science, 33, 1993, pp. 343-363; with George Norman.
Staggered vs. Synchronised Wage Setting in Oligopoly, European Economic Review, 37, 1993, pp. 1507-1522.
Relaxing Spatial Competition through Product Line Choice (and Vice Versa), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 23, 1993, pp. 461-486.
Strategic Spillovers in Patent Races, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 11, 1993, pp. 139-146.
Productive Efficiency in Public and Private Firms, Journal of Public Economics, 50, 1993, pp. 15-30.
1992
Product Line Competition and Market Structure, Economic Notes, 21, 1992, pp. 511-525.
Recenti sviluppi nell'analisi degli oligopoli misti (Recent Developments in the Analysis of Mixed Oligopolies), Economia e politica industriale, 19, n. 74-76, 1992, pp. 381-409; with Flavio Delbono.
1991
Inefficiency and Privatisation in Imperfectly Competitive Industries, Journal of Industrial Economics, 39, 1991, pp. 311-321.
1990
Imperfect Information and the Choice between Collusion and Horizontal Merger, Metroeconomica, 41, 1990, pp. 137-160.
On Balanced Temptation Equilibria for Repeated Games, Economic Notes, 19, 1990, pp. 72-81.
Il potere dei partiti italiani (The Power of Italian Political Parties), Notizie di Politeia, 6, n. 17, 1990, pp. 11-17.
Game Theoretic Models of Mixed Oligopoly, Journal of Economic Surveys, 4, 1990, pp. 1-17; with Flavio Delbono.
1989
Alternative Strategies of a Public Firm in Oligopoly, Oxford Economic Papers, 41, 1989, pp. 302-311; with Flavio Delbono.
1988
Quando l'oligopolista è pubblico (When the Oligopolist is Public), Politica ed Economia, 18, n. 7-8, 1988, pp. 59-61.
1987
Oligopoli misti: un'introduzione (Mixed Oligopolies: An Introduction), Economia Pubblica, 17, 1987, pp. 515-519; with Flavio Delbono.
Oligopoly, Public Firm and Welfare Maximization: A Game Theoretic Analy sis, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 46, 1987, pp. 417-435; with Flavio Delbono.
1986
Il tasso reale di interesse in presenza di inflazione perfettamente prevista (The Real Rate of Interest with Perfectly Expected Inflation), in Economia Politica, 3, 1986, pp. 39-60.
Risparmio delle famiglie e deficit del bilancio pubblico in Italia: un riesame (Households' Savings and Public Sector Budget Deficit in Italy: A Re-examination), in Mario Pinna e Riccardo Varaldo (eds.) Studi in ricordo di Egidio Giannessi, Pacini, Pisa, 1986, pp. 251-270.