Curriculum Vitae
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ph.D. in Economics, September 2000
Thesis: Oligopoly Models and Competition; Supervisor: Massimo Motta
Thesis Committee: P. Rey, J. Padilla, P. Seabright, A. Cabrales, B. Cassiman
Université de Toulouse I, Graduate School of Economics, Visiting Student, January 1999 – April
1999. Supervisor: Patrick Rey
Centre for Industrial Economics, Copenhagen, 1998 Summer School, July 1998
Università Bocconi, BA in Discipline Economiche e Sociali, September 1994
Academic position and/or Professional activities
Associate Professor of Economics
Current Position
2006-today: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Università Bocconi.
2013-today: Avv. Giovanni Agnelli Professorship in Economics, Università Bocconi.
2014-today: Director of the Bachelor in International Economics and Finance (BIEF), Università Bocconi.
Past Positions
2002-2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Università Bocconi.
2001-2002: Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute.
Visiting Positions
2006-2007: Fernand Braudel Fellow, European University Institute
Short Visiting Positions
2009/2010: Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CESF), Università di Napoli.
Fall 2003: University of Southampton
Research Interests
- Competition policy
- Corporate Finance
- Multinational Firms
The deep-pocket effect of Internal Capital Markets" (con X. Boutin, G. Cestone, G. Pica e N. Serrano-Velarde), forthcoming in The Journal of Financial Economics; "Exclusive dealing: investment promotion may facilitate inefficient foreclosure" (con M. Motta e T. Ronde), forthcoming in The Journal of Industrial Economics; "Damages for exclusionary practices: a primer" (con J. Padilla e M. Polo), in Competition Law and the Enforcement of Art. 102, Oxford University Press, 2010; "On the anticompetitive effect of exclusive dealing when entry by merger is possible" (con M. Motta e L. Persson), The Journal of Industrial Economics (2009); "Buyers' miscoordination, entry, and downstream competition" (con M. Motta), The Economic Journal (2008); "Exclusive dealing and entry, when buyers compete" (con M.Motta), American Economic Review (2006) ; "The Strategic Impact of Resource Flexibility in Business Groups" (con G. Cestone), The Rand Journal of Economics (2005); "On the Welfare Effects of Competition for Foreign Direct Investments", in European Economic Review (2003).