Preparing for the next crisis: How to secure the supply of essential goods and services (with N Fabra and M Peitz), CEPR Policy Insight 106, Sept. 2020  (--> A shorter version: Building a strategy for resilience, VoxEU.org, 16 Sept. 2020)

Shelving or developing? The acquisition of potential competitors under financial constraints (with C Fumagalli and E Tarantino), CEPR D.P. 15113 (this version, October 2020)

Which role for state aid and merger control during and after the Covid crisis? (with C Fumagalli and M Peitz), June 2020, forthcoming in Journal of European Competition Law & Practice

Una oportunidad para recuperar Europa" (with N Fabra and M Peitz), El País, 14 May 2020

Price regulations in times of crisis", in Daily Maverick, 22 April 2020

Massimo Motta is Research Professor at ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra and at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He founded the GSE's Competition and Market Regulation Program and is Scientific Director of this Master.

He served as Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission from 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2016.

Prof. Motta's main areas of research are industrial organisation and competition policy. His work, widely cited and influential, has been published in the leading international economic journals. His book on Competition Policy: Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2004) is the standard international reference on the economics of antitrust, and is used by lecturers, scholars, and practitioners. His new book on Exclusionary practices. The Economics of Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance (Cambridge University Press, 2018) with Chiara Fumagalli and Claudio Calcagno, contains original research, case discussions and policy implications, shedding new light on this controversial area of antitrust. (The book was awarded the XI Premi of the Societat Catalana d'Economia for the best economics book in October 2019.)

He has extensive experience in advising competition agencies on cases and policy (he has been advising the South African Competition Commission, Chile's Fiscalía Nacional Económica, the Portuguese Autoridade da Concorrência, and OFCOM, the UK's Communications regulator), in teaching competition policy (to lawyers, economists, agency officials, and in undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses) and in supervising doctoral dissertations. His former students have obtained important positions in academia, consulting firms, and in competition and regulatory agencies.

Working Papers and Research in Progress

• "Shelving or developing? The acquisition of potential competitors under financial constraints" (with C Fumagalli and E Tarantino), Barcelona GSE Working Paper: 1197 | July 2020.
• "Big Tech Mergers", by Massimo Motta and Martin Peitz. CEPR DIscussion Paper 14353 (January 2020), Barcelona GSE Working Paper: 1198 | July 2020.
• "Tying in evolving industries, when future entry cannot be deterred", by Chiara Fumagalli and Massimo Motta. CEPR Discussion Paper 9676 (September 2019) - forthcoming in the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
• "The Effect of Horizontal Mergers, when Firms Compete in Prices and Investments", by Massimo Motta and Emanuele Tarantino. Working Paper 1579, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (30 August 2017). New version (November 2018).
• "Dynamic Vertical Foreclosure", by Chiara Fumagalli and Massimo Motta, Forthcoming in Journal of Law and Economics. (NEW VERSION: May 2020)

Recent Research Publications

• "Vertical Exclusion with Downstream Risk Aversion or Limited Liability" by Stephen Hansen and Massimo Motta, Journal of Industrial Economics, 67(3-4): 409-447, 2019. (Lead article)
• Exclusionary practices. The Economics of Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance, (with Chiara Fumagalli and Claudio Calcagno), Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• "On the use of price-cost tests in loyalty discounts and exclusive dealing arrangements: Which implications from economic theory should be drawn?" (with Chiara Fumagalli), Antitrust Law Journal, 81(2): 537–85, 2017.
• "A Simple Model of Predation" (with Chiara Fumagalli), Journal of Law and Economics, 56(3): 595-631, August 2013.
• "The Effect of the EU Antitrust Investigations and Fines on a Firm’s Valuation", (with Luca Aguzzoni and Gregor Langus), Journal of Industrial Economics, 61(2): 290-338, June 2013
• "Exclusive dealing:Investment Promotion may Facilitate Inefficient Foreclosure”, (with Chiara Fumagalli and Thomas Roende), Journal of Industrial Economics, 60 (4): 599 - 608; December 2012.
• "Exclusionary Pricing When Scale Matters", (with Liliane Karlinger), the Journal of Industrial Economics, 60(1):75-103, March 2012.

Selected Policy Papers

• “State Aid Policies in Response to the COVID-19 Shock: Observationsand Guiding Principles” (with Martin Peitz), Intereconomics, Volume 55, July/August 2020, Number 4.
• "Challenges for EU merger control" (with Martin Peitz), Concurrences, 2:44-49, 2019.
• "Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2015 (with Adina Claici, Daniel Coublucq, Giulio Federico and Lluis Saurí), Review of Industrial Organization, Dec. 2016, Volume 49, Issue 4, 585–611.
• "Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2014 (with Giulio Federico and Penelope Papandropoulos), Review of Industrial Organization, 47:399–423, 2015.
• "Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2013–2014 (with Benno Buehler, Gábor Koltay and Xavier Boutin), Review of Industrial Organization, 45:399–415, 2014.
• "Guidelines for the Analysis of Coordinated Effects in Mergers", (with Natalia Fabra), Policy Report commissioned by the World Bank for the Latin American Antitrust Authorities.
• "Mergers and National Champions”, (with Michele Ruta), pp.91-117, in Oliver Falck, Christian Gollier and Ludger Woessmann (eds.), Industrial Policy for National Champions, MIT Press, 2011.
• "On Cartel Deterrence and Fines in the European Union", European Competition Law Review, 29(4): 209-220, 2008
• "Excessive Pricing in Competition Law: Never Say Never?”, (with Alexandre de Streel), in The Pros and Cons of High Prices, Stockholm: Konkurrensverket – Swedish Competition Authority, 2007 (Chapter 2, pp. 14-46).