• Associate Professor of Economics, Università degli Studi di Milano, Bicocca, Dept of Economics
• President of INTERTIC, International Think-tank on Innovation and Competition
• Faculty Member of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics, University of Edinburgh
• Faculty Member of the European Summer School in Competition and Regulation, University of Athens
• Editorial Board of Review of Business and Economics

 SELECTED SEMINARS AND INVITED LECTURES

• Dynamic Competition Lecture, Osaka, Japan (November 27, 2009): "Innovation and Competition: Theory, Evidence and Policy for the Great Recession", Power point presentation of the Dynamic Competition Lecture;
• Bi-annual Opening Lecture at the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (December 12, 2007);
• Invited Lecture on Antitrust Policy, The Finnish Competition Authority and ETLA, Helsinki, Finland (June 15, 2007).

 EDUCATION

• M.A. in Economics (U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, USA, 2000)
• Laurea in Economia (U.C.S.C., Milan, ITA, 1997)

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

 Research: Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization, Antitrust Policy, Growth Theory, International Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy.

 Teaching Experience: Industrial Organization (2007-present), University of Edinburgh; International Trade and Market Structures (since 2009), Macroeconomics (2008-present), Economics of Innovation (2006-present) and Microeconomics (2006-2008), University of Milan, Bicocca.. Past: Advanced Macroeconomics, International Economics and Public Economics (undergraduate); Advanced Macroeconomics and Political Economy (postgraduate).
 

 PUBLICATIONS

 Books:

2011, Competition law and the Enforcement of Article 82, with I. Kokkoris, Oxford University Press, Oxford

2009, ENDOGENOUS MARKET STRUCTURES AND THE MACROECONOMY, Springer_Verlag, New York and Berlin

2007, COMPETITION, INNOVATION, AND ANTITRUST, Springer-Verlag, New York and Berlin

 Main articles:

2010, Real Business Cycles with Cournot Competition and Endogenous Entry, third round of R&R for Journal of Macroeconomics (with Andrea Colciago)

2010, Endogenous Market Structures and the Optimal Financial Structure, Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming

2010, Endogenous Market Structures and Strategic Trade Policy, International Economic Review, in press

2010, Endogenous Market Structures and the Business Cycle, The Economic Journal (with Andrea Colciago), in press

2010, Endogenous Market Structures and Antitrust Policy, International Review of Economics, in press

2010, Antitrust Issues in Dynamic Markets, Chapter 11 in "The Reform of EC Competition Law: the Challenge of an Optimal Enforcement System", Edited by I. Lianos and I. Kokkoris, Kluwer International, London, pp. 327-341

2009, The Effect of Entry on R&D Investment of Leaders: Theory and Empirical Evidence (with Dirk Czarnitzki and Kornelius Kraft)

2009, The Economic Impact of Cloud Computing on Business Creation, Employment and Output in Europe, Review of Business and Economics, June, Vol. 54, 2, pp. 179-218

2008, Stackelberg Competition with Endogenous Entry, The Economic Journal, 118, 1670-97

2008, Growth Leaders, Journal of Macroeconomics, 30, 1148-72

2008, Market Leaders, Antitrust Policy and the Software Market, Icfai Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 5, 1, pp. 7-30

2007, Redistribution, Decentralization and Constitutional Rules, in “The Economics of Transparency in Politics”, Edited by A. Breton et al., Ashgate, London, pp. 209-230 (with Piero D. Giarda)

2007, Innovation by Leaders II, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, Vol. 115, 1 (January-March), pp. 81-108

2007, Endogenous Market Structures and Macroeconomic Theory, Review of Business and Economics, Vol. 52, 4, pp. 517-40

2006, Competition Policy: Toward a New Approach, European Competition Journal, Vol. 2, 1 (April), pp. 29-55

2006, Aggressive Leaders, The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 37, 1 (Spring), pp. 146-154

2006, Political Geography, Public Choice, Vol. 127, 3-4 (June), pp. 321-343

2005, International Unions, The American Economic Review, Vol. 95, 3 (June), pp. 602-615 (with Alberto Alesina and Ignazio Angeloni)

2004, Innovation by Leaders, The Economic Journal, Vol. 114, 495 (April), pp. 281-310

2004, The Political Economy of Fiscal and Monetary Unions, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, Vol. 117, 63 (December), pp. 289-328

2004, Does Asymmetric Information Matter in Competitive Insurance Markets?, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, Vol. 112, 1 (January-March), pp. 27-46

 ORGANIZED CONFERENCES

 II International Conference on the Recent Developments on Antitrust Policy and the Enforcement of Art. 82 (Rome, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, April 9, 2010)

International Conference on Competition Policy and Property Rights (Milan, September 15-16, 2009)

 I International Conference on the Recent Developments on Antitrust Policy and the Enforcement of Art. 82 (Rome, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, March 6, 2009)

 International Conference on Endogenous Market Structures and Industrial Policy (Milan, June 5-6, 2008)

 International Conference on Innovation and Competition in the New Economy (Milan, May 4-5, 2007)