Contact Details

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Finanziarie
Facoltà di Economia
C.so Unione Sovietica 218bis
10134 Torino, Italia
Phone: +39 011 6706066
Fax:  +39 011 6706062

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, London Business School, 2005.
• Master of Science in Economics, University College London, 1999.
• Laurea in Economics, University of Turin, 1998.

Positions Held

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Turin.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2005-2006.
• Resident Scholar, Collegio Carlo Alberto, and Research Affiliate, CHILD (Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics).

Working Papers and Work in Progress

• The Demand for Adoption, with Alex Tetenov.
• "Risk Taking and Performance in Tournaments: Evidence from Weightlifting Competitions", with Christos Genakos, (Appendix), CEP Discussion Paper No. 928, 2009.
• Press Coverage: Centerpiece, CEP, Winter 2008/9; La Repubblica, January 31, 2009, R2; Economic and Social Research Council, "Britain in 2009, The State of the Nation"; Kathimerini, "Tournament incentives in businesses and sports", April 26, 2008 (in greek!)

• "The Impact of Potential Labor Supply on Licensing Exam Difficulty in the US Market for Lawyers", Carlo Alberto Notebook No. 53, revised May 2009.
  
• "What is the Objective of Professional Licensing? Identification of a Static Model of Licensing", Carlo Alberto Notebook No.106, 2009, submitted.
• "Frictional Matching: Evidence from Law School Admission", with Pascal Courty, Carlo Alberto Notebook No.113, 2009, submitted.
  

• "The Impact of Price Discrimination on Revenue: Evidence from the Concert Industry", with Pascal Courty, January 2009. CEPR Discussion Paper 7120, submitted.
• "Price Discrimination in the Concert Industry", with Pascal Courty, January 2009. CEPR Discussion Paper 7143.
  
• "Does Responsive Pricing Smooth Demand Shocks?", with Pascal Courty, 2007. CEPR Discussion Paper 6662, revised and resubmitted. (Additional Material)
• "Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies", with Pascal Courty, 2007. CEPR Discussion Paper 6663, submitted.
• "Does Responsive Pricing Increase Efficiency? Evidence from Pricing Experiments in an Internet Café", with Pascal Courty, CEPR Discussion Paper 4149, December 2003.

Publications

• "Licensing Exam Difficulty and Entry Salaries in the US Market for Lawyers", British Journal of Industrial Relations, forthcoming.
• "Responsive Pricing", Economic Theory, Vol. 34, n. 2, February 2008, with Pascal Courty.
• "Do Consumers Care about How Prices are set?", International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol. 15, n.1, 2008, with Pascal Courty.
• "Strategic Interaction on the UK Gas Transportation System: the St. Fergus and Bacton Constraints", Energy Economics, Vol. 25, n. 4, July 2003.
• "Are Italians also Fiscal Conservatives?", Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 1999, XVII, with Kenneth Greene.

Other papers

• "Musicians are Leaving Money on the Concert Floor", with Pascal Courty, VOX, February 2009.
  

Courses

• Microeconomics, University of Turin, (Klips).
  
• Financial Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2005-2006.