Leonardo Madio - 2nd Padova IO Workshop

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Padova IO Workshop, which will take place on 13-14 May 2025 at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (Via del Santo 28) and the Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno" (Via del Santo 33) in Padua.

This workshop will feature recent research in Industrial Organization, ranging from Digital Economics to Public Procurements, Patents and Industrial Policy.

If you wish to attend the event, please contact Leonardo Madio at leonardo.madio@unipd.it no later than 5 May 2025.

Tuesday 13 May

Location: the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (Via del Santo 28)

10:30 – Welcome Address by the Head of the Department, Prof. Paola Valbonesi

10:45 - 13:00 – Session 1: "Patents & Standards"

Gianluca Antonecchia (KU Leuven): "Patent Expirations and Product Scope Evolution in Pharmaceuticals" (with Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, Ghai, and Eric Verhoogen)
Michela Bonani (UPF Barcelona): "Uniform vs. Competing Standards: A Structural Analysis of the US Wireless Telecommunications Industry"
Luca Sandrini (ZEW Mannheim): "Patentability Requirements and the Direction of Innovation with Technology Licensing" (with Fabio Manenti)

13:00 - 14:00 – Lunch (Common Room, Via del Santo 33)

14:00 - 16:15 – Session 2: "Digital Economics"

Leonardo Madio (dSEA UNIPD): "Transparency of Add-on Fees on Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb" (with Kevin Ducbao Tran, Michelangelo Rossi, and Mark J. Tremblay)
Robert Somogyi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): "Nested Platforms" (with Luca Sandrini)
Fabio Manenti (dSEA UNIPD): "Cyber(in)security in Digital Services: The Unintended Effects of Interoperability" (with Stefano Comino and Alessandro Fedele)

16:15 - 16:45 – Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:15 – Session 3: "Applied Theory"

Fabio Michelucci (Cà Foscari Venice): "Markets for (Concealable) Information" (with Topi Miettenen)
Markus Reisinger (Frankfurt School of Management): "Sequencing Bilateral Negotiations with Externalities" (with Johannes Munster)

20:00 – Dinner @ Cafè Letterario Treccani

Wednesday 14 May

Location: Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno" (Via del Santo 33) in Padua (Aula Se

9:00 - 10:30 – Session 4: "Public Contracts"

Marco Buso (dSEA UNIPD): "Optimal Public-Private Partnerships with Endogenous Financial Constraints" (with Luciano Greco)
Riccardo Camboni (dSEA UNIPD): "Backlog Orders and Weather Suspensions: New Evidence from Procurement Contracts" (with Andrea Bafundi, Camilla Ciappei, and Claudia Imperatore)

10:30 - 11:00 – Coffee Break (Common Room, Via del Santo 33)

11:00 - 12:00 – Keynote Address by Prof. Massimo Motta (ICREA-UPF, Barcelona School of Economics)

12:00 - 13:30 – Session 5: "Other Topics in Industrial Organization"

Maria Rosa Battaggion (University of Bergamo): "Restricting Demand to the Happy Few: Pricing Strategy with Word-of-Mouth and Heterogeneous Consumers.” (with Alessandro Vaglio).‌
Marta Castellini (dSEA UNIPD): "Welfare-enhancing Public Energy Communities in the Digital Age" (with Dirk Bergemann, Marina Bertolini, Michele Moretto, and Sergio Vergalli)

13:30 - 15:00 – Farewell Lunch (Common Room, Via del Santo 33)