Christos Genakos

Working Papers:

•  “Cultural Exception? The Impact of Price Regulation on Prices and Variety in the Market for Books” with Mario Pagliero, Lorien Sabatino and Tommaso Valletti, under review.

•  “The Impact of Tax Audits on Small Enterprises: Compliance Gains or Backfiring?” with Christos Kotsogiannis and Luca Salvadori, under review.

•  “Social policy gone bad educationally: Unintended peer effects from transferred students” with Eleni Kyrkopoulou (ELIAMEP, CEP working papers), under review.

• “Strategic Confusopoly: Evidence from the UK Mobile Market” with Tobias Kretschmer and Ambre Nicolle, under review.

• “Asymmetric Pass-Through and Competition” with Blair Yuan Lyu and Mario Pagliero, under review.

• “Price ceiling regulation: Evidence from the retail gasoline market in Greek islands” with Georgios Gatsios and Stella Papadokonstantaki, under review.

• “What is the right geographic market definition?” with Themistoklis Kampouris, under review.

Work in progress:

• “Generalized linear competition: From pass-through to policy” with Germain Gaudin and Robert Ritz, under revision.

• “Peer Effects and Worker Visibility in Team Production: Evidence from NBA Rookies” with Evangelia Chalioti, Kostantinos Chountas and Konstantinos Serfes

• “Olympic Opportunity: the case of the Athens 2004 Olympic Village” with Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Elias Papaioannou

•  “Public subsidies' impact on SMEs and innovation: evidence from Greece” with Theano-Maria Tagaraki

• “Crisis and Entrepreneurship: business dynamics, firm level, sectoral and regional determinants”, with Ioannis Kaplanis, Maria Theano Tagaraki and Aggelos Tsakanikas, under revision.

PUBLICATIONS

A.    Articles

1.  “VAT Pass-Through and Competition: Evidence from the Greek islands” with Lydia Dimitrakopoulou, Stella Papadokonstantaki and Themistoklis Kampouris, International Journal of Industrial Organization, (Volume 97, December 2024).

2.  “Is Having an Expert “Friend” Enough? An Analysis of Consumer Switching Behavior in Mobile Telephony” with Costas Roumanias and Tommaso Valletti, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (September 2023, vol. 213, pp. 359-372).

3. “Evaluating Merger Effects” with Andreas Lambrinidis and James Walker, Managerial and Decision Economics, (September 2023, vol. 44, issue 6, pp. 3325-3345).

4. “Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets” with Mario Pagliero (CEPR, CEP, SSRN working papers) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, (forthcoming) Media: CentrePiece, Οικονομικός Ταχυδρόμος

5. “Exploring the Long-Term Impact of Maximum Markup Deregulation” with Athanasios Dimas, ANNALS Belgrade Law Review, (2020, Volume 68, Issue 4, pp. 5-29).

6. “The European Framework for Regulating Telecommunications – a 25-year appraisal” with Martin Cave and Tommaso Valletti, Review of Industrial Organization, (2019, Volume 55, pp. 47-62).

7. “The Tale of the Two Greeces: Some Management Practices Lessons”, Managerial and Decision Economics, (December 2018, Volume 39, Issue 8, pp. 888-896).

8. “Leveraging Monopoly Power by Limiting Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets” (Appendix) with Kai-Uwe Kühn and John Van Reenen, Economica, (October 2018, Volume 85, Issue 340, pp. 873-902).

9.  “The Impact of Markup Regulation on Prices” with Pantelis Koutroumpis and Mario Pagliero (non-technical summary), (CEP DP 1310) (CEPR DP 10243) (OECD DAF/COMP/WP4), Journal of Industrial Economics, (June 2018, Volume 66, Issue 2, pp. 239-300). Media: Kathimerini, Imperial College London news, AUEB Econ newsletter, CentrePiece

10. “Evaluating Market Consolidation in Mobile Communications” (Appendix) with Tommaso Valletti and Frank Verboven, Economic Policy, (Jan 2018, Vol. 33, Issue 93, pp. 45–100).

11. “Evaluating a decade of mobile termination rate regulation” with Tommaso Valletti, Economic Journal (2015, Vol. 125, Issue 586, pp. F31-F48)

12. “When pressure sinks performance: Evidence from diving competitions” with Mario Pagliero and Eleni Garbi, Economics Letters (2015, Vol. 132, July, pp. 5-8)

13. “Interim Rank, Risk Taking and Performance in Dynamic Tournaments” with Mario Pagliero, Journal of Political Economy (2012, Vol. 120, No. 4, pp. 782-813)

14. “Management Practices Across Firms and Countries” with Nick Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, Academy of Management Perspectives (2012, Vol. 26, no.1, pp. 12-33)

15. “Regulating prices in two-sided markets: the waterbed experience in mobile telephony” with Tommaso Valletti, Telecommunications Policy (2012, Vol. 36, Issue 5, pp. 360-368)

16. “Testing the Waterbed effect in Mobile Telephony” with Tommaso Valletti, Journal of the European Economic Association (2011, vol. 9, Issue 6, pp. 1114-1142)

17. “Seesaw in the Air: Interconnection Regulation and the Structure of Mobile Tariffs” with Tommaso Valletti, Information, Economics and Policy (2011, vol. 23, n. 2, pp. 159-170)

18.  “Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?” with Nick Bloom, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun, Economic Journal (2010, vol. 120, n. 544, pp. 551–572)

B.     Book Chapters

1. “Product Market Regulation and Competitiveness: Towards a National Competition and Competitiveness Policy in Greece,” with Yannis Katsoulakos and George Houpis, in C. Meghir, C. Pissarides, D. Vayanos and N. Vettas (eds.), Beyond Austerity: Reforming the Greek Economy, MIT Press, 2017.

2. “Product Market Reforms in Greece: Learning form the Past to Move Forward”, in M. Choupres and H. Edquist (eds.), What Can we Learn from Economic Reforms in Greece and Sweden, ELF, 2013.

3. “Econometric Evidence in EU Competition Law: An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis,” with Ioannis Lianos, in I. Lianos and D. Geradin (eds.), Handbook on European Competition Law, Edward Elgar, Chelthenham, 2013. (SSRN WP)

4. “Mobile Regulation and the ‘Waterbed’ Effect,” with Tommaso Valletti, in M. Falch and Jan Markendahl (eds.), Promoting New Telecom Infrastructures: Markets, Policies and Pricing, Edward Elgar, Chelthenham, 2010.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 Referee: American Economic Review, Bulletin of Economic Research, Econometrica, Economica, Economic Journal, Energy Economics, European Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Labour Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Network Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Telecommunications Policy.

 Prof. Affiliations: European Economic Association, American Economic Association, Econometric Society, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Royal Economic Society.