Luca SANDRINI - Research

Publications

Economics of Innovation:

Manenti, F.M. and Sandrini, L. (2025), Patentability Requirements and the Direction of Innovation.
Journal of Industrial Economics.
DOI: 10.1111/joie.12414
Sandrini, L. (2024), Price versus Market Share with Royalty Licensing: Incomplete Adoption of a Superior Technology with Heterogeneous Firms,
Review of Industrial Organization, 64: 243-265.
DOI: 10.1007/s11151-023-09935-9
Sandrini, L. (2022), Innovation, competition, and incomplete adoption of a superior technology,
Economics of Innovation and New Technology 32(6): 783-803
DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2021.2024432
Sandrini, L. (2021), Incentives for labor-augmenting innovation in vertical markets: the role of wage rate,
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 75: 102715.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2021.102715

Digital Economics:

Delbono, F., Reggiani, C. and Sandrini, L. (2024), Strategic data sales with partial segment profiling,
Information Economics and Policy, 68: 101102
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2024.101102
Sandrini L. and Somogyi R. (2023), Generative AI and Deceptive News Consumption,
Economics Letters, 232: 111317.
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111317

Other disciplines:

Cazzola, M. and Sandrini, L. (2023), Le donne, il matrimonio e l’ordine sessuale dell’Impero britannico (c. 1715-1815). Commento a margine di Black Sails e Bridgerton,
Genesis - Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche, 22(2): 59-80
DOI: 10.23744/5528

Working Papers & Work in Progress

Economics of Innovation:

Sandrini, L. (2024), Learning-by-doing or doing without learning? Protecting secrets with organizational innovations (R&R at Information Econ and Policy)
Manenti, F.M. and Sandrini, L. (in progress), The Direction of Innovation with Technology Licensing

Digital Economics:

Gambato J. and Sandrini, L., (2024). Not as good as it used to be: do streaming platforms penalize quality? ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-045 (under review)
Gambato J. and Sandrini, L., (2025). Dance to my Tune! Discovery mode and built-in recommendation bias. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5021863
Navarra, F., Pino, F., and Sandrini, L. (2023), Mandated data sharing in hybrid marketplaces. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4390587
Navarra, F., Pino, F., and Sandrini, L. (in progress), Sharing is (not) caring: strategic information disclosure and platform's business model
Madio, L., Manenti, F.M. and Sandrini, L. (in progress), Vertical Relations Within a Platform Ecosystem
Sandrini, L., and Somogyi, R. (2024), News Media Bargaining Codes. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-043.
Sandrini, L., and Somogyi, R. (in progress), Nested Platforms

Evolutionary Game Theory:

Rozzi, R. and Sandrini, L. (in progress), An evolutionary perspective on stubborn consumers.

Records:

Protecting secrets with organizational innovations.
Seminar presentation at the Economics Department of the University of Crete available here

Awards:

2022
- NET Institute Summer Grant for the "News Media Bargaining Code" paper with Robert Somogyi.
- Junior Faculty Research Prize by the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (GTK) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics

2021
- Principal Investigator of a 3-year OTKA Postdoctoral Excellence Research Grant funded by the Hungarian National Research Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), ~75.000 €
- 9th «Giorgio Rota» Best Paper Award on "Main Economic Tendencies in the Contemporary World Economy " for the paper Direct and Indirect Effects of Competition on Innovation and Licensing Outcomes (now published with the title Innovation, Competition, and Incomplete Adoption of a Superior Technology on Economics of Innovation and New Technology.)

2019
- Best Paper Award at the Augustin Cournot Doctoral Days 2019 for the paper Incentives for Labor-augmenting Innovation in Vertical Markets: The Role of Wage Rate

Other completed manuscripts:

Sandrini, L., and Somogyi, R. (2021), News Media Bargaining Codes. Working Paper 22-06, NET Institute
Sandrini, L. (2021), Effetto diretto ed effetto indiretto della competizione sull'innovazione e la vendita in licenza, in Quaderni del Premio Giorgio Rota.
Sandrini, L. (2020), Comunità Energetiche, Aggregazione di Domanda e Virtual Power Plant in Italia e UE