Paolo Ramezzana
Research page
Research page
I am an economist with research, policy and consulting interests in industrial organization, contract theory and (to a lesser extent) labor economics. I am currently a Senior Vice President in the Milan office of Compass Lexecon (please see my consulting page). I was previously an Economist and Advisor to the Director in the Bureau of Economics of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC.
Here are my CV and SSRN page. Below you will find links to my recent research papers. You can contact me by email at pramezzana@compasslexecon.com.
Publications
Entry Deterrence, Domino Effects and Mergers in Markets for Complements, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 99, March 2025. Download the accepted manuscript
Labor Market Reform, Job Insecurity, and the Flexibility of the Employment Relationship, European Economic Review, 53 (1), January 2009, pp. 19-36 (with Niko Matouschek and Frederic Robert-Nicoud) -- Download the accepted manuscript
The Role of Exclusive Contracts in Facilitating Market Transactions, Journal of Industrial Economics, LV (2), June 2007, pp. 347-71 (with Niko Matouschek) -- Download the accepted manuscript
Recent Working Papers
RPM and Vertical Integration with Upstream Competition and Noncontractible Efforts (August 2024), with Michele Bisceglia, Mark Israel and Salvatore Piccolo, revise and resubmit at the Journal of Industrial Economics
Vertical Integration in the Presence of Uniform Pricing Policies (June 2024), with Michele Bisceglia, Mark Israel and Salvatore Piccolo
Contracting, Exclusivity and Incomplete Distribution Networks (January 2020), Revise and resubmit requested by the Journal of Industrial Economics - Online Appendix
Nonlinear Contracts and Vertical Restraints in Bilateral Duopoly (September 2016)
Publicly-available policy work
Here is a very short Overview of the economics of price parity agreements I gave at a meeting of the International Competition Network in Rome in 2017
Dormant papers
Per Capita Income and Industrial Demand in Economic Development and International Trade, (June 2002, with minor edits in June 2005)
Product Selection in Markets with Costly Search, (November 2000)