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Motta, Massimo
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ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Massimo Motta (B.Sc. Univ. Bocconi, Milan, 1987; Ph.D. Univ. Cath. Louvain, 1991) is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and the Dean of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. His previous positions include professorships at the Università di Bologna (2007-2010), at the European University Institute, Florence (1998-2008) and at UPF (1992-1998). He is Research Fellow of CEPR, London, of CESifo, Munich, and member of the Council of the European Economic Association. His main areas of research are industrial organization and competition policy. His work has been published in the top international journals, and his book on Competition Policy: Theory and Practice (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004) is the standard reference on antitrust economics. He has extensive experience in supervising PhDs, and his former students hold important posts in academia, consulting firms, and agencies.
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Research Interests
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I am currently writing a book ("Monopolisation: The Economics of Exclusionary Practices", with C. Fumagalli and C. Calcagno, for Cambridge U.P.) on practices that dominant firms adopt to exclude rivals from the market, to identify which practices should be prohibited. My research also deals with the penalties of antitrust violations. In joint work with L. Aguzzoni and G. Langus, we estimate the impact of antitrust actions on the firms which have infringed competition law in the EU. With N. Fabra I analyse which penalties should be imposed on antitrust violators, and inter alia we find that (unlike current EU law, where only firms are subject to fines) managers should be subject to administrative penalties (fines, but also managerial disqualification) for having violated the law. In work with S. Hansen, I study the relationship between a principal (say, a manufacturer) and its agents (say, its retailers), to see when exclusive relationships are adopted, and their welfare effect.
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KeyWords
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Applied microeconomics, Industrial organisation, antitrust, competition policy, international trade
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