Born: September, 17th, 1959 (Sabbioneta, Italy)
Education
Bachelor degree in Economics, University of Parma (Italy), 1982
D. Phil. in Economics, University of Siena (Italy), 1987
D. Phil. in Economics, University of Oxford (UK), 1988
Awards and studentships
Ministry of Budget Thesis Award (1983)
Italian Ministry of Education (1983-86)
Linacre College (Oxford) Domus Studentship (1985-86)
Fondazione Jona Scholarsip (1985-87)
British Council Scholarship (1985)
Academic Positions
1986-89: Lecturer of International Economics, Dickinson
College of Bologna
1987-2008: Professorial Lecturer of International
Economics and Statistics (and member of the Academic Council 2003-09), Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center
1987-92: Lecturer of Economics, University of Verona (Italy)
1992-96: Associate Professor of Economics, University of
Bologna
1996-97: Professor of Economics, University of Modena
(Italy)
1997-10 Professor of Economics, University of Bologna
2000-10 On leave
2010- Professor of Economics, University of Bologna
2018- Director of MUEC (University Master in Economics of Cooperation), University of Bologna
2020- Coordinator of the Bachelor degree in "Economics and Finance"
Other research experiences
1992: Research Fellow, London School of Economics
1992-2000: C.E.P.R. Research Fellow
1992: I.C.E.R (Turin, Italy) Research Fellow
1994: Visiting Professor at Brown University (USA)
1998: International Visitor in the USA (USIA)
Other Activities
1995-99: Deputy Mayor for Budget, City of Bologna
2000-09: Deputy President for
Budget (and Vice-president since 2003), Region Emilia-Romagna
2008-09: President of the Lisbon Regions Network
2009-10: Mayor of the City of Bologna
Publications (selection)
1. "On the Determination of Effective Demands in Benassy's
Model", ECONOMIC NOTES, 1985, vol. 14, pp. 115-20.
2. (with G. De Fraja) "Oligopoly, Public Firm and Welfare
Maximization: A Game-Theoretic Approach", GIORNALE DEGLI
ECONOMISTI E ANNALI DI ECONOMIA, 1987, vol. 46, pp. 417-35.
3. "Welfare Consequences of Declining Costs in Asymmetric
Duopolies", ECONOMIC NOTES, 1988, vol. 17, pp. 69-74.
4. (with G. De Fraja) "Alternative Strategies of a
Public Enterprise in Oligopoly", OXFORD ECONOMIC PAPERS, 1989,
vol. 41, pp. 302-11.
5. "Market Leadership with a Sequence of History Dependent
Patent Races", JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, 1989, vol. 38,
pp. 95-101.
6. "Endogenous Market Competition in Technologically
Asymmetric Duopolies", INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, 1989, vol. 36, pp. 723-8.
7. (with V. Denicolò) "Asymmetric Equilibria in a Dynamic
Model of R & D", ECONOMIC NOTES, 1989, vol. 18, pp.
192-209.
8. "Patterns of Technological Leadership: A Simple
Model with Uncertainty", METROECONOMICA, 1989, vol. 40, pp.
257-77.
9. "An Asymmetric Race of R & D with Market
Uncertainty", ECONOMIC NOTES, 1990, vol. 19, pp. 297-302.
10. (with V. Denicolò) "R & D Investment in
a Symmetric and Homogeneous Oligopoly": Bertrand Vs Cournot",
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, 1990, vol. 8, pp.
297-313.
11. (with G. De Fraja) "Game Theoretic Models of
Mixed Oligopoly", JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS, 1990, vol. 4,
pp. 1-17.
12. (with G. Basevi and V. Denicolò) "International Monetary
Cooperation under Tariff Threats", JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMICS, 1990, vol. 28, pp. 1-23.
13. (with V. Denicolò) "Incentives to Innovate in a Cournot
Oligopoly", QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 1991, vol. 106, pp.
951-61.
14. (with V. Denicolò) "Races of Research and
Development between Firms with Different Incentives to
Innovate", RECHERCHES ECONOMIQUES DE LOUVAIN,
1991, vol. 57, pp. 103-23.
15. (with G. Rossini) "A Mixed Firm Objective Function: Some
Bizarre Behaviour", ECONOMIC NOTES, 1992, vol. 21, pp.
444-9.
16. (with G. Rossini) "Competition Policy
Vs. Horizontal Merger with Private, Public, and
Cooperative Firms", JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS, 1992,
vol. 16 pp. 226-40.
17. "Privatization and Liberalization in Labour-Managed
Industries: A Simple Welfare Analysis", JOURNAL OF
INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS, 1992, vol. 1, pp.
325-33.
18. (with V. Denicolò) "Regulating Innovative
Activity: The Role of a Public Firm", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, 1993, vol. 11, pp. 35-48.
19. "Market Structure and Innovation: A
Reassessment ", RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE
SOCIALI, 1993, vol. 101, pp. 275-92.
20. (with G. Basevi and M. Mariotti) "Bargaining
with a Composite Player: An Application to the Uruguay
Round of GATT", JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE
ECONOMICS, 1994, vol. 3, pp. 161-74.
21. (with C. Scarpa) "Upward Sloping Reaction Functions under
Quantity Competition in Mixed Oligopolies", BULLETIN OF
ECONOMIC RESEARCH, 1995, vol. 47, pp. 341-6.
22. (with V. Denicolò and C. Scarpa), "Quality Choice in a Vertically Differentiated Mixed Duopoly", ECONOMIC NOTES, 1996, vol. 25, pp. 33-46.
23. (with V. Denicolò) "Monopoly, Competition, and the Speed of R & D", INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, 1999, vol. 46, pp. 35-43.
24. (with D. Lanzi) "A Class of Human Development
Indices", RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI, 2005, n.
113, pp. 537-51.
25. (with D. Lanzi) "Poverty and the Atkinson BI/FRT Model:
A Note", INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, 2007,
vol. 54, pp. 80-5.
26. (with D. Lanzi) "Human Development in the EU".
RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI, 2008, vol. 116,
pp. 321-31.
27. (with D. Lanzi) "Co-production and Reversed
Cream-skimming in Quasi-markets", RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE
DI SCIENZE SOCIALI, 2012, vol. 120, pp. 201-14.
28. (with C. Reggiani) "Cooperative firms and the
crisis: evidence from some Italian mixed oligopolies",
ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS, 2013, vol. 84, pp.
383-97.
29. (with L. Lambertini) "Cartel Size and Collusive
Stability with Non-Capitalistic Players", ECONOMICS
LETTERS, 2014, vol. 125, pp. 156-9.
30. (with L. Lambertini), "On the Properties of Linear Supply Functions in Oligopoly", ECONOMICS LETTERS, 2015, vol. 136, 22-4.
31. (with L. Lambertini), “Bertand Vs Cournot with Convex Variable Costs”, ECONOMIC THEORY BULLETIN, 2016, vol. 4, pp 73-83.
32. (with L. Lambertini) "Horizontal Mergers with Capital Adjustment: Workers’ Cooperatives and the Merger Paradox", ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS, 2016, vol. 87, pp. 529-39.
33. (with L. Lambertini) "Nationalization as Credible Threat against Collusion", JOURNAL OF INDUSTRY, COMPETITION AND TRADE, 2016, vol. 16, pp. 127-36.
34. (with L. Lambertini and L. Marattin), “Strategic Delegation under Cost Asymmetry”, OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS, 2016, 44, pp. 443-5.
35. (with L. Lambertini) "Ranking Bertand, Cournot and Supply Function Equilibria in Oligopoly", ENERGY ECONOMICS, 2016, vol. 60, pp. 73-8.
36. (with G. Dipoppa, L. Lambertini and C. Reggiani) “A Single Espresso, Please! Rationalizing Espresso Price Dispersion across Italian Cities”, JOURNAL OF INDUSTRY, COMPETITION AND TRADE, 2017, vol. 17, pp. 465-78.
37. (with L. Lambertini) “Cournot Conjectures under Price Competition”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY, 2018, vol. 14, pp. 295-301.
38. (with L. Lambertini) “The Socially Efficient Firms’ Mix in a Duopoly with Environmental Externalities”, in K. Onishi (ed.), Firms’ Strategic Decisions: Theoretical and Empirical Findings, vol. 3, Bentham Science, Sharjah, 2018, pp. 59-68.
39. (with. L. Lambertini) “Folk Theorems for a Class of Additively Separable Games”, MATHEMATICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2018, vol. 92, pp. 10-5.
40. (with L. Lambertini) "Choosing Roles under Supply Function Competition", ENERGY ECONOMICS, 2018, vol. 71, pp. 83-8.
41. (with G. Bellettini, P. Karlstroem and S. Pastorello) “Income Inequality and Banking Crises: Testing the Level Hypothesis Directly”, JOURNAL OF MACROECONOMICS, 2019, vol. 62.
42. (with L. Lambertini) "On the Collusive Nature of Managerial Contracts Based on Comparative Performance", RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS, 2020, vol. 74, pp. 12-18.
43. (with L. Lambertini) "Innovation and Product Market Concentration: Schumpeter, Arrow and the Inverted-U Shape Curve", 2022, OXFORD ECONOMIC PAPERS, vol. 74, pp. 297-311.
44. (with L. Lambertini) "Optimal Emission Taxation and the Porter Hypothesis under Bertrand Competition", 2022, ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS, vol. 92, pp. 755-65.
45. (with G. Caselli and M. Costa) "What Do Cooperative Firms Maximize, if at All? Evidence from Emilia-Romagna in the pre-Covid Decade", ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS, 2022, vol. 93, pp. 821-47.
46. (with L. Lambertini), “Innovation and the persistence of monopoly under diseconomies of scope or scale”, JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS ECONOMICS, 2022, vol. 49, pp. 747-57.
47. (with M. Costa and F. Linguiti), “Cooperative Movement and Prosperity across Italian Regions”, ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS, 2023, vol. 94, pp. 475-94.
48. (with M. Costa), “The Italian Geography of Regional Resilience: The Role of Cooperative Firms”, SOCIAL ENTERPRISE JOURNAL, 2023.
49. (with D. Lanzi and C. Reggiani), “Workers’ Firm in Mixed Duopoly”, ECONOMIC MODELLING, 2023, vol. 122, 106247.
50. (with L. Lambertini), “Stackelberg Leadership and Strategic Delegation under Hyperbolic Demand”, ECONOMICS LETTERS, 2023, vol. 224, pp. 1-4.
51. (with C. Reggiani and L. Sandrini), “Strategic data sales to competing firms”, JRC Digital Economy Working Paper 2021/05, European Commission.
