Marco Duarte
Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Industrial Organization
Applied Microeconomics
Antitrust & Competition Policy
Department of Economics - UNC-Chapel Hill
141 South Road, Gardner Hall 107, CB# 3305
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
email: duartema@unc.edu
The Inner Workings of a Hub-and-Spoke Cartel in the Automotive Fuel Industry. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. 2025 Feb 1;17(1):41-65. (with Daniel Chaves)
Testing firm conduct. Quantitative Economics 15, no. 3 (2024): 571-606. (with Lorenzo Magnolfi, Mikkel Sølvsten, Christopher Sullivan)
The competitive conduct of consumer cooperatives. The RAND Journal of Economics (2024).(with Lorenzo Magnolfi, Camilla Roncoroni)
Extending fixed-point methods for equilibrium computation in markets with differentiated products. Economics Letters (2025)
Hub-and-Spoke Collusion with Horizontally Differentiated Spokes (with Daniel Chaves)
Vertical Contracts and Rival Entry: Evidence from the US Yogurt Industry (with Meilin Ma, Yujing Song, and Xinrong Zhu)
Misallocation effects of collusion under uniform pricing in differentiated-product markets (with Daniel Chaves, Robert Clark, and Jean-Francois Houde)
Firm-level Pass-through of Supply Chain Disruptions: Insights from the US Beef Market (with Francisco Scott and Meilin Ma)
Conduct and Scale Economies: Evaluating Tariffs in the US Automobile Market (with Marco Duarte, Mikkel Sølvsten, Daniel Quint, and Christopher Sullivan)
Evaluating Substitutes for Antitrust: The Case of COPA Laws (with Cici Mcnamara, Seungwhan Chun, and Jason Lindo)
Price Wars: Evidence from Quebec’s Retail Gasoline Industry, in Cartels Diagnosed, Cambridge University Press, 2025. (with Jean-Francois Houde and Robert Clark)