I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Università di Torino, and a Research Affiliate at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, and CHILD (Centre for Hausehold, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics). I received a PhD in economics from the London Business School in 2005 and a Master of Science in Economics from the University College London in 1999.

Recent Working Papers and Work in Progress (See also my personal page at IDEAS)

• "The Demand for Adoption", with Alex Tetenov.
• "Beneath the Surface: the Decline in Gender Injury Gap", with Tiziano Razzolini, Roberto Leombruni, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni.
• "Occupational Licensing in the European Legal Market", with Edward Timmons.
  
• "Price Discrimination in the Concert Industry", with Pascal Courty, CEPR Discussion Paper 7143.

Articles in Journals

• "The Impact of Potential Labor Supply on Licensing Exam Difficulty", Labour Economics, forthcoming.
• "Interim Rank, Risk Taking and Performance in Dynamic Tournaments", Journal of Political Economy, 120, 4, 2012, with Christos Genakos.
  
• "The Impact of Price Discrimination on Revenue: Evidence from the Concert Industry", Review of Economics and Statistics, 94, 1, 2012, with Pascal Courty.
• "What is the Objective of Professional Licensing? Evidence from the US Market for Lawyers", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29, 4, 2011.
• "Does Responsive Pricing Smooth Demand Shocks?", Applied Economics, 43, 30, 2011, with Pascal Courty. (Additional Material)
• "Frictional Matching: Evidence from Law School Admission", Economics Letters, 108, 2, 2010, with Pascal Courty.
  
• "Licensing Exam Difficulty and Entry Salaries in the US Market for Lawyers", British Journal of Industrial Relations, 48, 4, 2010.
• "Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 75, 2, 2010, with Pascal Courty.
• "Responsive Pricing", Economic Theory, 34, 2, 2008, with Pascal Courty.
  
• "Do Consumers Care about How Prices Are Set?", International Journal of the Economics of Business, 15, 1, 2008, with Pascal Courty.
  
• "Strategic Interaction on the UK Gas Transportation System: the St. Fergus and Bacton Constraints", Energy Economics, 25, 4, July 2003.
• "Are Italians also Fiscal Conservatives?", Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 1999, XVII, with Kenneth Greene.

Book Chapters

• "The Pricing of Art and the Art of Pricing: Pricing Styles in the Concert Industry", in Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, edited by V. Ginsburgh and D. Throsby, Elsevier, forthcoming, with Pascal Courty. (WP version)
  
• "What’s the Right Price? Three Views on Why Firms Price Discriminate", in Economics Writing, edited by S. E. Hume and B. Ahmadi, 2012, 1-6, Pearson, with Pascal Courty.

Policy papers

• "Musicians are Leaving Money on the Concert Floor", with Pascal Courty, VOX, February 2009.
• "Weightlifting competitions: lessons for performance management", CentrePiece, Winter 2009.

Media References

• La Repubblica, January 31, 2009: “Crisi: La formula algebrica del fallimento?”
• Britain in 2009, Economic and Social Research Council: "Weightlifting Competitions: Lessons for Performance Management"
• Kathimerini, April 26, 2008 (in greek): "Ανταγωνιστικά κίνητρα στις επιχειρήσεις και αθλητισμός"

Courses

• Microeconomics, University of Turin, (Klips).

Contact Details
Collegio Carlo Alberto

Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche
Facoltà di Economia
C.so Unione Sovietica 218bis
10134 Torino, Italia
Phone: +39 011 6706066
Fax:  +39 011 6706062