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Full Professor of Economics
Dept of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata;
Research Fellow, CEPR London and GREEN-Bocconi
Coordinator M.Sc European Economy and Business Law
"Go as far as the legs of reasons can tell you and then jump"
(The Life of Pi)
Research Areas
Applied TheoryPublic procurement, public-private partnerships, market regulation and industrial organization.
Selected Publications
Games and Economic Behavior (2015), Economic Journal (1998), Journal of the European Economic Association (2014), International Journal of Industrial Organization (2002, 2015), Journal of Industrial Economics (1999), Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (2020), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2011), Journal of Public Economics (2006), Rand Journal of Economics (2004, 2012, 2012), Review of Economic Studies (2020).
Expert Adviser
UK Competition Commission, the European Commission, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the U.K. Financial Service Authority, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development., the Office of Fair Trading, IFAD-United Nations, Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.
Recent Papers
Prizes versus Contracts as Incentives for Innovation, with Yeon-Koo Che and Patrick Rey. Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies.
Bureaucratic Competence and Procurement Outcomes, with F. Decarolis, L.M. Giuffrida, V. Mollisi and G. Spagnolo. NBER Discussion Paper. Forthcoming, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.
Buyers' Role in Innovation Procurement — with F. Decarolis, G. de Rassenfosse, L.M. Giuffrida, V. Mollisi, E. Raiteri and G. Spagnolo, CEPR Discussion paper 13777. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.
Collusive Market Allocations, with with Leslie Marx, Simon Loertscher and Patrick Rey. Submitted.
Organizing Competition for the Market with Patrick Rey and Michael Waterson. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association
Public Procurement as a Demand-side Policy: Project Competition and Innovation Incentives with Alessandro De Chiara. CEPR Discussion paper 13664.
NEWS
Policy Presentation: Il ruolo dello Stato nell'Economia. Video
Policy Paper: "Integrity Framework for Public Infrastructures: Review and Further Action," Inter-American Development Bank, Washington August 2020.
CEPR Industrial Organization Seminars. Organizing Competition for the Market with Patrick Rey and Michael Waterson. June 2020 Online.
Expert Panellist, Roundtable on Competition for the market: O.E.C.D. Global Competition Forum 2019, Paris, O.E.C.D.
Invited Lecture: 8th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting: Procurement of Innovation: Rationale, Design and Impact, 2019.
Invited Speaker: Collusion via Market Allocation, Frontiers in Theoretical IO. XXXIV Jornadas de Economía Industrial (Madrid, September 2019).
Invited Speaker: Public Procurement of Innovation: Rationale, Design and Impact, Universitat Autonoma di barcellong. PHD Conference, 19 June 2019.
Keynote Lecture: Nordic Workshop On Industrial Organization (Norio Xi), Stockholm School Of Economics 10–11 June 2019