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I am Professor of Economics at University of Bergamo (Italy), Academic Affiliate at Compass Lexecon and a CSEF fellow. 

My research interests are Antitrust Economics, Competition Policy, Contract and Information Theory, Economics of Crime, Industrial Organization, and Regulation.  

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Selected Publications

• On the Ratchet Effect with Product Market Competition

with Michele Bisceglia

RAND Journal of Economics, accepted. 

• On the Bright Side of Market Concentration in the Healthcare Industry

(with M. Bisceglia, J. Padilla, and P. Sääskilahti) 

Journal of Health Economics, accepted.

•  On Excessive Entry in Bayes-Cournot Oligopoly. 

(with M. Bisceglia, J. Padilla and J. Perkins)

 RAND Journal of Economics, accepted.  

• Vertical Contracting with Endogenous Market Structure 

(with M. Pagnozzi and M. Reisinger)

 Journal of Economic Theory, (2022).

• Optimal Pricing, Private Information and Search for an Outside Offer  

(with S. Auster and N. Kos)

 RAND Journal of Economics, (2021).

• Optimal Leniency and the Organization Design of Group Delinquency 

(with G. Immordino and P. Roberti)

 Journal of Public Economics, (2020). 

• Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics 

(with A. Alesina and P. Pinotti)

 Review of Economic Studies, (2019). Lead article,  Vol 86(2).

• Corruption, Organized Crime, and the Bright Side of Subversion of Law 

(with A. Gamba and G. Immordino)

Journal of Public Economics, (2018).

• Selling Information to Competitive Firms 

(with J. Kastl and  M. Pagnozzi)

 RAND Journal of Economics, (2018).

• Deceptive Advertising with Rational Buyers 

(with G. Ursino and P. Tedeschi)

 Management Science, (2017).

• Organized Crime, Insider Information and Optimal Leniency 

(with G. Immordino)

 Economic Journal, (2017).

• How Limiting Deceptive Practices Harms Consumers 

(with P. Tedeschi and G. Ursino)

 RAND Journal of Economics, (2015).

• Competitive Markets with Endogenous Health Risks 

(with A. Bennardo)

Journal of the European Economic Association, (2014).

• Information Sharing between Vertical Hierarchies 

(with M. Pagnozzi)

 Games and Economic Behavior, (2013).

• Colluding through Suppliers 

(with J. Miklos-Thal)

 RAND Journal of Economics, (2012).

•  Vertical Separation with Private Contracts  

(with M. Pagnozzi), 

Economic Journal, (2011).

• Exclusive Territories and Manufacturers' Collusion  

(with M. Reisinger)

 Management Science, (2011).

• The Strategic Value of Quantity Forcing Contracts  

(with D. Martimort)

 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, (2010).