Workshop on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance

October 11th, 2024 

Department of Economics and Management

University of Padova (Aula Seminari)


Ore 8.40 Registration

8.50 Welcome Address by the Head of the Department, Paola Valbonesi


9.00 Data, AI, and Cyber risk

Gaston Llanes (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Leonardo Madio, “Business Strategy and Regulation of Generative AI Firms”

● Laura Abrardi, Carlo Cambini, Flavio Pino (POLITO), “Data Brokers Competition, Synergic Datasets, and Endogenous Information Value”

Stefano Comino (Uniud), Alessandro Fedele, Fabio Manenti, “Cyber(in)security”

11.00 Coffee break


11.30- 12.45 Keynote Speech: Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim & MACCI) “Recommendations and Pricing”


12.45 - 14.00 Lunch @ Garden

14.00 Online Risky Websites

Leonardo Madio (dSEA UNIPD), Matthew Mitchell, Martin Quinn, Carlo Reggiani, “Asymmetric Content Moderation in Search Markets: The Case of Adult Websites”

Laura Abrardi (POLITO), Lorien Sabatino, Geza Sapi, “Privacy Regulations and Online Safety: Evidence From Adult-only Websites”


15:40 Coffee break

16.10 Online Markets and Search Bias

Muxin Li (Bocconi), “Dominating Adjacent Markets via Self-Preferencing”

● Louis Pape, Michelangelo Rossi (Tèlècom Paris) “Is Competition Only One Click Away? The Digital Markets Act Impact on Google Maps”

17:30 Conclusions by Fabio Manenti, Head of the Local Unit


Local organizers: Leonardo Madio, Fabio Manenti

For any information, please contact leonardo.madio@unipd.it