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February 9th, 1962 in Milan (Italy)
Italian
married, two children
Economics Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Ramon Trias-Fargas 25-27, E-08005 Barcelona, Spain
tel.:+34 93 5422058; fax: +34 93 5421860
email: massimo[dot]motta[at]upf[dot]edu
ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Research Professor (September 2009-)
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics: Research Professor (September 2009-)
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London: Research Fellow (February 1996- )
CES-Ifo, Munich, Fellow (September 2000- )
Adviser of the South African Competition Commission (July 2008 -).
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, assistant professor (1992 - 1993)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, associate professor (1993 - 1997)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, professor (1997 - 1998)
European University Institute, Florence (1998-2008), professor; head of economics department (2003-2005)
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Bologna, professor (2007-2010)
Dean, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (2009-2012)
Chief Competition Economist, European Commission, Brussels (2013 - 2016).
Research Interests: Industrial organisation; competition (antitrust) policy; regulation; law and economics.
Italian: mother tongue; English, French, Spanish: excellent; German and Catalan: notions.
Books
Market Investigations: A New Competition Tool for Europe? (Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz and Heike Schweitzer, editors), Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Competition Policy. Theory and Practice Cambridge University Press (2004).
Translation into Italian, with changes and adaptation, as: Antitrust. Economia e politica della concorrenza (with Michele Polo), Bologna: il Mulino (2005)
Translation into Chinese, 2007.
Translation into Hungarian, 2007.
Translation into Portuguese (with Brasilian cases), as: Política de Concorrência. Teoria e Prática e sua Aplicaçao no Brasil (with Lucia Helena Salgado), Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier, 2015.
Translation into Spanish, 2018.
Monopolisation: The Economics of Exclusionary Practices (with Chiara Fumagalli and Claudio Calcagno), Cambridge University Press (2018).
Articles in leading economics journals
"Sunk Costs and Trade Liberalisation", Economic Journal 102/412 (May 1992), 578-587.
"Multinational Firms and the Tariff-Jumping Argument: A Game Theoretic Analysis with Some Unconventional Conclusions", European Economic Review 36 (December 1992), 1557-1571.
"Cooperative R&D and Vertical Product Differentiation", International Journal of Industrial Organization 10 (December 1992), 643-661.
"Endogenous Quality Choice: Price vs. Quantity Competition", Journal of Industrial Economics 41 (June 1993), 113-131.
"International Trade and Investments in a Vertically Differentiated Industry", International Journal of Industrial Organization 12 (1994), 179-196.
"Eastern European Economic Integration and Foreign Direct Investment" (with George Norman), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 2/4 (Winter 1993), 483-507.
"Does Environmental Dumping Lead to Delocation?" (with Jacques-François Thisse), European Economic Review 38 (1994), 563-576.
"Does Economic Integration Cause Foreign Direct Investment?" (with George Norman), International Economic Review 37 (November 1996), 757-783.
"Managerial Incentives for Takeovers" (with Ramon Faulí-Oller), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 4/4 (Winter 1996), 497-514.
"On the Persistence of Leadership or Leapfrogging in International Trade" (with Jacques Thisse and Antonio Cabrales), International Economic Review 38/4 (Nov. 1997), 809-824.
"Multinationals Without Advantages" (with Andrea Fosfuri), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 101/4 (1999), 617-630.
"Risk Dominance Selects the Leader. An Experimental Analysis" (with Antonio Cabrales and Walter Garcia-Fontes), International Journal of Industrial Organisation 18/1 (2000), 137-162.
"Country Asymmetries, Endogenous Product Choice and the Speed of Trade Liberalization" (with Antonio Cabrales), European Economic Review, 45(2001), 87-207.
"Foreign Direct Investments and Spillovers Through Workers' Mobility" (with Andrea Fosfuri and Thomas Rønde), Journal of International Economics, 53 (2001), 205-222.
[Reprinted in Globalization and Productivity, edited by David Greenaway, Holger Görg, and Richard Kneller, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar]
"Leniency Programs and Cartel Prosecution" (with Michele Polo), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21 (2003), 347-379
[Reprinted in Recent Developments in Monopoly and Competition Policy, edited by George Norman, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar]
"Efficiency gains and myopic antitrust authority in a dynamic merger game" (with Helder Vasconcelos), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 23 (9-10), December 2005, 777-801.
"Exclusive dealing and entry, when buyers compete" (with Chiara Fumagalli), American Economic Review, 96(3), June 2006, 785-795.
"Buyers' Miscoordination, Entry, and Downstream Competition" (with Chiara Fumagalli), Economic Journal, 118 (531): 1196-1222, August 2008.
"On the anti-competitive effect of exclusive dealing when entry by merger is possible" (with Chiara Fumagalli and Lars Persson), Journal of Industrial Economics. 47(4), December 2009: 785-811.
"Acquisition of information and share prices: An empirical investigation of cognitive dissonance" (with Elena Argentesi and Helmut Lütkepohl), German Economic Review, 11(3):381-396, August 2010.
“A Political Economy Model of Mergers in International Markets” (with Michele Ruta), Economica, 79(313): 115-136, January 2012.
"Exclusionary Pricing when Scale Matters" (with Liliane Karlinger), Journal of Industrial Economics, 60(1):75-103, March 2012.
Exclusive dealing: Investment Promotion may Facilitate Inefficient Foreclosure” (with Chiara Fumagalli and Thomas Ronde), Journal of Industrial Economics, 60 (4): 599 - 608, 2012.
"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)
"Advertising Bans", SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 4(1): 61-81, 2013.
"A Simple Model of Predation" (with Chiara Fumagalli), Journal of Law and Economics, 56(3): 595-631, August 2013.
“On the use of price-cost tests in loyalty discounts and exclusive dealing arrangements: Which implications from economic theory?” (with Chiara Fumagalli), Antitrust Law Journal, 81(2): 537–85, 2017.
“Vertical Exclusion with Downstream Risk Aversion or Limited Liability” (with Stephen Hansen), Journal of Industrial Economics, 67(3-4): 409-447, Sept 2019. (Lead article)
“Tying in evolving industries, when future entry cannot be deterred” (with Chiara Fumagalli), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 73: 1-23, Dec. 2020.
"Dynamic vertical foreclosure" (with Chiara Fumagalli), Journal of Law and Economics, 63: 763-812, November 2020.
“Big Tech Mergers” (with Martin Peitz), Information Economics and Policy, 54:100868. March 2021.
“The effect of horizontal mergers, when firms compete in prices and investments” (with Emanuele Tarantino), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 78, 102774, September 2021.
“Learning from electricity markets: How to design a resilience strategy” (with Natalia Fabra and Martin Peitz), Energy Policy, 168, 113116, 2022.
“Self-preferencing and foreclosure in digital markets: theories of harm for abuse cases”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 90 (2023) 102974.
“Denial of interoperability and future first-party entry” (with Martin Peitz), forthcoming in International Journal of Industiral Organization.
"The "kill zone": When a platform copies to eliminate a potential threat” (with Sandro Shelegia), forthcoming in Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.