Chiara Fumagalli
Associate Professor
Biography
Chiara Fumagalli is a Full Professor of Economics at Università Bocconi and Dean of the Undergraduate School. She is a Research Fellow of CEPR (Industrial Organization and Organization Economics groups) and member of the CEPR Research Policy Network for Competition Policy. Since 2014 she has been member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy and since 2022 she is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
She is an applied micro-economist, whose research covers the fields of Industrial Organization and Organizational Economics. Much of her work concerns competition policy and the activity of diversified organizations. Regarding Competition Policy, She has extensively studied the economics of exclusionary practices. Recently, she has started investigating the effects of acquisitions of potential competitors and the labor market effects of horizontal mergers. Concerning business groups, she has studied how the activity of Internal Capital Markets and Internal Labor Markets affect the behavior of affiliated firms in response to shocks. Recently she has started exploring whether the activity of ILMs in business groups contributes to alleviating misallocation of labor across sectors.
She got a Degree in Economics at Università Bocconi (DES) and her PhD in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2000.
Recent Publications
- 2025
The European Commission’s draft guidelines on exclusionary abuses: a law and economics critique and recommendations
AKMAN, P., C. FUMAGALLI, M. MOTTA, "The European Commission’s draft guidelines on exclusionary abuses: a law and economics critique and recommendations", Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2025, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 234–243 - 2024
Exploiting Growth Opportunities: The Role of Internal Labour Markets
CESTONE, G., C. FUMAGALLI, F. KRAMARZ, G. PICA, "Exploiting Growth Opportunities: The Role of Internal Labour Markets", Review of Economic Studies, 2024, vol. 91, no. 5, pp. 2676–2716 - 2024
Economic Principles for the Enforcement of Abuse of Dominance Provisions
FUMAGALLI, C., M. MOTTA, "Economic Principles for the Enforcement of Abuse of Dominance Provisions", Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 2024, vol. 20, no. 1-2, pp. 85-107 - 2022
Optimal policy for acquisitions of potential competitors under financial constraints
MOTTA, M., E. TARANTINO, C. FUMAGALLI, "Optimal policy for acquisitions of potential competitors under financial constraints", VoxEU - CEPR, 27 March 2022 - 2020
Dynamic Vertical Foreclosure
FUMAGALLI, C., M. MOTTA, "Dynamic Vertical Foreclosure", The Journal of Law and Economics, 2020, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 763-812 - 2020
Tying in evolving industries, when future entry cannot be deterred
FUMAGALLI, C., M. MOTTA, "Tying in evolving industries, when future entry cannot be deterred", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020, vol. 73, pp. 1-23 - 2020
Which Role for State Aid and Merger Control During and After the Covid Crisis?
FUMAGALLI, C., M. MOTTA, M. PEITZ, "Which Role for State Aid and Merger Control During and After the Covid Crisis?", Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2020, vol. 11, no. 5-6, pp. 294-301 - 2019
Sobre los efectos anticompetitivos de los descuentos por lealtad
FUMAGALLI, C., "Sobre los efectos anticompetitivos de los descuentos por lealtad" in Desafíos de la Libre Competencia en Iberoamérica., Vanessa Facuse Andreucci, Ana Montoya Squif (Eds.), Thomson Reuters, pp. 189-212, 2019 - 2018
Exclusionary Practices: the Economics of Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance
FUMAGALLI, C., M. MOTTA, C. CALCAGNO - "Exclusionary Practices: the Economics of Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance" - 2018, Cambridge University Press - 2017
On the use of price-cost tests in loyalty discounts and exclusive dealing arrangements: which implications from economic theory should be drawn?
FUMAGALLI, C., M. MOTTA, "On the use of price-cost tests in loyalty discounts and exclusive dealing arrangements: which implications from economic theory should be drawn?", Antitrust Law Journal, 2017, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 537-585
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Grants & Honors
Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2024
