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Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova
Via del Santo, 33 - Padova, Italy.
Phone Number: + 39 049 827 4327
Email: leonardo.madio (at) unipd.it
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Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova
Via del Santo, 33 - Padova, Italy.
Phone Number: + 39 049 827 4327
Email: leonardo.madio (at) unipd.it
Senior Assistant Professor (Associate Professor, from Sept 1st), University of Padova
Other affiliations:
During 2020-2023, I was "Unicredit & Universities Foscolo Europe" research fellow in Padova. I also held postdoctoral fellowships at the Toulouse School of Economics and CORE - Universitè catholique de Louvain. I obtained the Ph.D from the University of York in 2019. In 2022, I was visiting research fellow at the ESMT Berlin. Since 2023, I am also Visiting Associate Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics.
My research interests are in the field of Industrial Organization and Digital Economics. I work on platform governance of quality and innovation, vertical relations within platform markets, and price and algorithmic transparency in digital markets. I am also interested in the unintended effects of public policies.
My research has been published in Management Science, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, European Economic Review, amongst others. I gave talks at the UK OFCOM, UK CMA; Belgium Competition Authority and I worked as economic expert for the European Commission / JRC.
I hold the Italian National Habilitation for Full Professor in the Sector ECON-01/Economia Politica
I was awarded the 2025 SID grant of Department of Economics and Management “Marco Fanno” to work on the project "competition in digital markets" (focusing on app store competition and tying in two-sided markets) with colleagues in LMU Munich, PUC Chile, UPF.
Platform liability and innovation
with D-S. Jeon (TSE) and Y. Lefouili (TSE).Mergers and Investments:
Where do we Stand?
Network externalities and platform strategy: Agency, bundled entry, and integration
with A. Gautier (Liège) and S. Shekhar SubmittedAsymmetric content moderation in search markets: The case of adult websites
with Matthew Mitchell (Rotman Toronto), M. Quinn (Rotterdam School of Management), and C. Reggiani (JRC Digital Economy).SubmittedTransparency of add-on fees on peer to peer platforms: Evidence from Airbnb
with Michelangelo Rossi (Telecom Paris), Kevin Tran (Bristol), Mark Tremblay (Las Vegas) New version coming soonUpcoming talks
MACCI Workshop on Digital Markets, Mannheim (March 6/7)
Seminar @ Universitè de Paris-Nanterre (March 18th)
Seminar @ Universitè de Namur (Apri 1st)
BrownBag Seminar @ CORE UCLouvain (April 2nd)
Bari Seminar (May 29th)
UB Micro Theory Workshop, Barcelona (June 27th)
CRESSE Conference, Crete (July 4-6th)
EARIE Conference, Valencia (August, 28-31st)
Seminar @ Grenoble Alpes (April 2026)