Hello!

My research lies within the field of industrial organization. My work focuses on durable goods and dynamic pricing, auctions and market design, demand estimation, consumer behaviour, and their implications on industry structure, competition and welfare.

I received my Msc in Economics at Bocconi University and my Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University. I am currently Lecturer in Economics and Director of the Summer School at London School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research and Associate Editor at International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Research fields: industrial organization, applied microeconomic theory and applied econometrics

Research

Auction

• Preferences and Performance in Simultaneous First-Price Auctions: A Structural Analysis, February 2020, with M. Gentry & T. Komarova, R&R Review of Economic Studies (2nd round)

• Monotone Strategy Equilibria in Simultaneous Auctions, with M. Gentry, T. Komarova and W. Shin, Journal of Mathematical Economics, forthcoming, August 2019

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Demand Estimation & Market Structure

• "Identification of Dynamic Discrete-Continuous Choice Models, with an Application to Consumption-Savings-Retirement,"October 2020 with M. Levy

• "Identification of intertemporal preferences in history-dependent dynamic discrete choice models," February 2020 with M. Levy

•   Heterogeneous time preferences: Evidence from the UK Mortgage Market, (with P. Bracke and M. Levy)

• “Multi-category competition and market power: a model of supermarket pricing,” (with S. Seiler, H. Smith & O. Thomassen). American Economic Review, August 2017, Vol. 107 No. 8, pp. 2308-51. [ Web Appendix ]

• “The Flexible Coefficient Multinomilal Logit (FC-MNL) Model of Demand for Differentiated Products,” (with P. Davis). Rand Journal of Economics, 2014, 45(1), pp. 32–63.

• “Automobile Replacement: a Dynamic Structural Approach,” Rand Journal of Economics, 2011, 42(2), pp. 266-291.

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Durable and Storable Goods

• “Differentiated Durable Goods Monopoly: A Robust Coase Conjecture,” (with F. Nava). American Economic Review, May 2019, Vol. 109, No. 5, pp. 1930-68. [ Web Appendix ] [Short video]

• “Buying Frenzy in Durable Goods Markets,” (with T. Liu). [ Web Appendix ] European Economic Review, 2014, 70, pp. 1-16.

• “Sales and Collusion in a Market with Storage,” (with F. Nava). [ Web Appendix ] Journal of European Economic Association, 2014, 12(3), pp. 791–832.

• “Internet, Search Frictions, and the Efficiency of Decentralized Markets: Evidence from Automobiles,” (with D. Rapson). Economics Letters, 2013, 121, pp. 232-235.

• “Resale and Collusion in a Dynamic Market for Semidurable Goods,” (with F. Nava). Journal of Industrial Economics, 2012, 60(2), pp. 274-298.

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Others

• "Does hospital competition reduce rates of patient harm in the English NHS?", March 2019, with R. Whitehouse

• "New Product Launch: herd seeking or herd preventing?,” (with T. Liu). Economic Theory, 2012, 51(3), pp. 627-648.

Teaching

EC486

Econometrics Methods

MSc in Economics and Management

EC427

Economics of Industry

Msc in Economics

EC536

Economics of Industry for Research Students

Ph.D. in Economics