Research

Published articles

• Measuring Switching Costs in the Italian Residential Electricity Market (with Fabio Manenti and Paola Valbonesi)

  • The Energy Journal. Forthcoming

• The Economic and Behavioral Consequences of Online User Reviews

  • Journal of Economic Surveys. 34.2 (2020): 262-292

• Social Influence Bias in Rating Websites: An Online Field Experiment (with Simona Cicognani and Paolo Figini)

  • Tourism Economics. 28.2 (2022): 2197-2218

  • Best paper award at the 13th Workshop on Social Economy for Young Economists

Under review

• What Goes Around, Comes Around: Reciprocal Effects and Doublesided Moral hazard in the Choice of Brand Licensing, (with Emanuele Bacchiega and Mariachiara Colucci)

  • Quaderni - Working Paper DSE N° 1136

  • Currently 3rd R&R at Management Science

Working in progress

• Information Provision in Hybrid Platforms (with Massimo Navarra)

• Consumer inertia and firm incumbency in liberalised retail electricity markets: an empirical investigation (with Massimo Dragotto and Paola Valbonesi)

• Inertia Determinants in the Residential and Business Energy Italian Markets (with Paola Valbonesi)

• Peer Effects and Intention to the Switch in the Residential and Business Energy Markets (with Luca Corazzini and Paola Valbonesi)

• The Role of Prior Reviews on Individual Rating Behavior in the Hospitality Sector (with Antonio Marsi)

• The Law of Everyday Shopping: Social Resistance to Ongoing Liberalization Processes of Retail Markets in the EU (with Giacomo Tagiuri)

• Hybrid Allocation of Control Rights over Retail Pricing (Available upon request)

Talks

• Ph.D. forum (University of Bologna): 

  • 2014: July 3; Sep 29; 

  • 2015: Mar 13; Dec 2;

  • 2016: Sep 22.

• SONIC/IDEE meeting (University of Bologna):

  • Social Influence Bias in Online Ratings (May 2015);

  • Social Influence Bias in Online Ratings: A Field Experiment (September 2015);

  • Consumer Inertia in Energy Markets: A Survey Experiment (February 2019).

• Microeconomics Reading Group (University of Bologna):

  • Vertical Contracts in Electronic Retailing (March 2014) (slides);

  • On the Competitive Effects of Slotting Allowances (October 2014) (slides);

  • Targeted Product Design: Locating Inside the Salop Circle (April 2015) (slides).

• Padova Research Seminars (University of Padova)

  • Hybrid Allocation of Control Rights over Retail Pricing (February 2018)

  • Measuring switching costs in the Italian retail electricity market (February 2019)

Conference talks

• CBTS 2015 (Munich University of Applied Sciences):

  • Social Influence Bias in Online Ratings: A Field Experiment (December 2015).

• BoMoPav 2017 (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

  • Brand Licensing under Double-sided Moral Hazard (March 2017)

• Jornadas de Economia Industrial 2018 (University of Barcelona)

  • The Choice of Brand Licensing Under Double-sided Moral Hazard (September 2018)

• 4th BEEN Meeting (University of Bologna)

  • Regulation and Experiments: Introducing RCTs in Energy Regulators (September 2019)

• XI N.E.R.I. Workshop (University of Naples)

  • Measuring switching costs in the Italian retail electricity market (February 2020)

• 15th Annual CRESSE Conference on Competition and Regulation (Center for Economic Research and Competition Strategy)

  • Measuring switching costs in the Italian retail electricity market (September 2021)