Research Interests
My research interests are in empirical and theoretical industrial
organization, competition policy, regulation and more generally in
applied econometrics and applied microeconomics.
Articles
- Faithful Strategies: How Religion Shapes Nonprofit Management (with Jens Pruefer), Management Science (2018), first online. Previous version (2013) as CentER Discussion Paper No. 52/2013 and, as Nonprofits are Not Alike: The Role of Religious Affiliation, TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2013-013, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche - UniFi - Working Paper No.7/2013.
- Market Definition in Multi-Sided Markets, in OECD, 2018, Rethinking the use of traditional Antitrust Methods, OECD, 37-54.
- Hotelling Competition and Political Differentiation with more than two Newspapers (with Stefan Behringer), Information Economics and Policy, vol. 30, pag. 36-49.
- Areeda–Turner in Two-Sided Markets (with Stefan Behringer), Review of Industrial Organization (2015) , vol. 46, Issue 3, pp 287-306. Previous version (2014) as: CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2014-038, TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2014-024.
- Market Definition in Two-Sided Markets: Theory and Practice (with Damien Geradin, Eric van Damme and Pauline Affeldt), Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2014), Volume 10 (2), pp. 293-339; Previous version(2013) as: TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2013-009, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche - UniFi - Working Paper No. 05/2013.
- Upward Pricing Pressure in Two-Sided Markets (with Pauline Affeldt and Tobias Klein), The Economic Journal (2013), vol. 123 (572), pages F505–F523. Previous version (2012) as: TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2012-029, CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2012-069, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche - UniFi - Working Paper No. 15/2012.
- Mergers in Two-Sided Markets - A Report to the NMa (with Damien Geradin, Eric van Damme, Simone Keunen, Tobias Klein, Thomas Michielsen and John Wileur), Netherlands Competition Authority, pp. 1-183, 2010.
- Assessing Unilateral Merger Effects in a Two-Sided Market: An Application to the Dutch Daily Newspaper Market (with Tobias Klein and Thomas Michielsen), Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2012), Vol. 8(2): 297-329. Previous version (2011) as TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2011-046, CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2011-114, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche-UniFi No. 15/2011.
- A shorter and less technical version appeared as: Filistrucchi, L., T.J. Klein, and T.O. Michielsen (2012): Assessing Unilateral Merger Effects in the Daily Newspaper Market, in: J. Harrington, Y. Katsoulakos and P. Regibeau (eds.): Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation, Edward Elgar Publishing, (2012).
- Identifying Two-Sided Markets (with Damien Geradin and Eric van Damme), World Competition (2013), vol. 36(1), 33-59. Previous version (2012) as: TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2012-008, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche - UniFi - Working Paper No. 01/2012.
- How many markets are two-sided?, Competition Policy International-Antitrust Chronicle (2010), Vol.7; reprinted in Competition Policy International-Antitrust Chronicle (2011), Vol.1
- Estimating Market Power in a Two-Sided Market: the Case of Daily Newspapers in Italy (with Elena Argentesi), Journal of Applied Econometrics (2007), Vol. 22(7), pp.1247-1266. Previous version (2005) as EUI Working Paper ECO No. 2005/ 7.
Published Working Papers
- Optimal Cartel prices in Two-Sided Markets (with Federico Boffa), NET Institute Working Paper No. 14-19. under revision
- Price Competition in Two-Sided Markets with Heterogeneous Consumers and Network Effects (with Tobias Klein), Net Institute Working Paper No. 2013-13; under revision; latest version:
| price_competition_two-sided_nov.2013.pdf |
- Banning Ads from Prime-Time State TV: Lessons from France (with Luigi Luini and Andrea Mangani), NET Institute Working Paper No. 2012-23. under revision
- Mandatory Quality Disclosure and Quality Supply: Evidence from German Hospitals (with Fatih Cemil Ozbugday), TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2012-031, CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2012-070, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche - UniFi - Working Paper No. 16/2012. under revision
- Collusion and the Political Differentiation of Newspapers (with Marco Antonielli), TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2012-014, CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2012-024, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche -UniFi-Working Paper No. 07/2012. Previous version: NET Institute Working Paper n° 2011-26. under revision
- Merger Simulation in a Two-Sided Market: The Case of the Dutch Daily Newspapers (with Tobias Klein and Thomas Michielsen), NET Institute Working Paper n° 2010-15. sleeping
- Price Wars in Two-Sided Markets: The case of UK Quality Newspapers (with Stefan Behringer), NET Institute Working Paper n° 2009-26; under revision; latest version:
| price-wars_in_two-sided_markets_may_2011.pdf |
- A SSNIP Test for Two-Sided Markets: The Case of Media, NET Institute Working Paper n° 2008-34. sleeping
- The Impact of Internet on the Market for Daily Newspapers in Italy, EUI Working Paper ECO No. 2005/ 12. sleeping
Work in Progress
- Relaxing Competition through Product Innovation (with Jan Boone, Erik Brouwer and Henry van der Wiel)
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- Network Effects and the Efficiency Defense in mergers among Two-Sided Platforms (with Damien Geradin and Konstantina Bania)
- A State Dependence Approach to Myopic Habits in Discrete Choice Models of Product Differentiation with Market Level Data
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- Public Hospitals are More Effective but Private Hospitals are More Efficient (with Jens Prüfer)
- An Academic's Guide to Market Definition in Single-Sided Markets (with Consuelo Silva Buston)
- Market Definition in a Two-Sided Market with Multi-Homing: the Case of Daily Newspapers in Italy (with Elena Argentesi)
- Exclusive contracts in two-sided markets: a review of the literature (with Anna D'Annunzio)
