Published Papers

Antitrust History

“Economic Experts in Antitrust Litigation: Empirical Evidence from the Courts, 1890-2018,” with Ken Elzinga and Danny Sokol, Antitrust Law Journal, Vol. 87, N. 1, 2026.

Airline Industry

• “Aircraft Ownership Dynamics: Patterns of Duration and Transition in U.S. Commercial Aviation,” with Olivia Richine,Forthcoming in Advances in Airline Economics - 13th edition - The Economics of Airline Pricing, Edited by Nicholas Rupp.

• "Common subcontracting and airline prices," with Gaurab Aryal, Dennis J Campbell, Ekaterina A Khmelnitskaya, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-45, 2024.

• “Coordinated Capacity Reductions and Public Communication in the Airline Industry,” with Gaurab Aryal and Ben Leyden, the Review of Economic Studies, 2021.

• “Market Structure and Competition in Airline Markets,” with Charles Murry and Elie Tamer, Journal of Political Economy, Volume 129, Number 11, November 2021. [Lead Article]

• Ciliberto, F., Cook, E.E. & Williams, J.W. Network Structure and Consolidation in the U.S. Airline Industry, 1990–2015. Review of Industrial Organization 54, 3–36 (2019). 

• Zhou Zhang, Federico Ciliberto, and Jonathan Williams, Effects of Mergers and Divestitures on Airline Fares, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2017, 98-104 

• Ciliberto, F. and Zhang, Z. (2017), Multiple Equilibria and Deterrence in Airline Markets, Economic Inquiry, 55: 319-338.

• Ciliberto, F. and Williams, J. W. (2014), Does multimarket contact facilitate tacit collusion? Inference on conduct parameters in the airline industry. The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 764-791. 

• Federico Ciliberto, Carola Schenone, Are the bankrupt skies the friendliest?, Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1217-1231.

• Federico Ciliberto, Carola Schenone, Bankruptcy and product-market competition: Evidence from the airline industry, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 564-577.

• Federico Ciliberto and Jonathan W. Williams, Limited Access to Airport Facilities and Market Power in the Airline Industry, The Journal of Law and Economics, 2010, 53:3, 467-495.  Data available here

• Ciliberto, F. and Tamer, E. (2009), Market Structure and Multiple Equilibria in Airline Markets. Econometrica, 77: 1791-1828. Data and codes. Supplement.

Content Advertising

• Anderson, S. P., Ciliberto, F. , Liaukonyte, J. and Renault, R. (2016), Push‐me pull‐you: comparative advertising in the OTC analgesics industry. The RAND Journal of Economics, 47: 1029-1056.  Online supplement here.

• Simon P. Anderson, Federico Ciliberto, Jura Liaukonyte, Information content of advertising: Empirical evidence from the OTC analgesic industry, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 31, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 355-367.

Seed Manufacturing Industry:

•  Perry, E., Ciliberto, F., Hennessy, D.A. Moschini, G, Genetically engineered crops and pesticide use in U.S. maize and soybeans, Science Advances, 31 August 2016. 

• Ciliberto, F., Moschini, G. and Perry, E.D. (2019), Valuing product innovation: genetically engineered varieties in US corn and soybeans. The RAND Journal of Economics, 50: 615-644

Fertility Decisions Modeled as Discrete Simultaneous Choice Decisions at a Workplace:

Ciliberto, F. , Miller, A. R., Nielsen, H. S. and Simonsen, M. (2016), Playing the Fertility Game at Work: An Equilibrium Model of Peer Effects. International Economic Review, 57: 827-856. 

Health Care Industry

• Ciliberto, F. and Lindrooth, R. C. (2007), Exit from the Hospital Industry, Economic Inquiry, 45: 71-81.

• Ciliberto, F. (2006), Does Organizational Form Affect Investment Decisions?. The Journal of Industrial Economics, 54: 63-93.

• Federico Ciliberto, David Dranove, The effect of physician–hospital affiliations on hospital prices in California, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-38.

International Trade: 

• “Superstar Exporters: An Empirical Investigation of Strategic Interactions in Danish Export Markets,” with Ina Charlotte Jäkel, Journal of International Economics, Volume 129, March 2021.

• Ciliberto Federico and Panzar John C. (2011), Outsourcing and Vertical Integration in a Competitive Industry. Southern Economic Journal: April 2011, Vol. 77, No. 4, 885–900.

Earlier Works: 

• Ciliberto, F. & Kuminoff, N. (2010). Public Policy and Market Competition: How the Master Settlement Agreement Changed the Cigarette Industry. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 10(1), pp. -. Retrieved 21 Mar. 2018, from doi:10.2202/1935-1682.2362 with Supplement.

• Federico Ciliberto, Were British cotton entrepreneurs technologically backward? Firm-level evidence on the adoption of ring spinning, Explorations in Economic History, Volume 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 487-504.