Ciao!
I am a 4th year Ph.D. student at the University of Turin and the Collegio Carlo Alberto
Primary research interests: Industrial Organization, Political Economy
Secondary research interests: Labor Economics
Working Paper
Privatization under Political Ties
A politically connected public firm competes with a private one in a game of endogenous product differentiation. Consumers differ in their willingness to pay. Firms choose qualities and then prices. Finally, consumers buy one good. The public firm maximizes a combination of profits and the median voter's utility. I provide a political economy micro-foundation of this objective function. Then, I study the effects of partial privatization. I find that (i) privatization encourages the entry of the private firm; (ii) the public firm's profits may exceed those of its competitor; and (iii) the socially optimal degree of privatization is interior.
Presentations: SING 2022, EARIE 2022, JEI 2022, NSEF PhD Workshop 2022, University of Parma (invited seminar), MACCI 2023, HEC Paris PhD Conference 2023, SIEPI 2023, Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory 2023, ASSET 2023
Work in Progress
Gender Prescribed Occupations and the Gender Wage Gap (with A. Gallice and C. Muratori)
Entry Deregulation, Industry Dynamics and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Italian Restaurants (with C. Cambini, G. Rosso, L. Sabatino)