Welcome to Elena Argentesi's Home Page
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Assistant Professor
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EDUCATION
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February 2005: |
PhD in Economics, European University Institute, |
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February 1998: |
Laurea (BA) in Economics (Summa cum laude), University of Bologna, Italy. |
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Industrial Organisation,
Empirical Industrial Organisation, Competition Policy, Media Economics.
WORKING PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
- “Acquisition of information and share
prices: An empirical investigation of cognitive dissonance” (with
Helmut Lütkepohl and Massimo Motta), forthcoming on the German Economic Review.
- “Market
Definition in a Two-Sided Market: The Case of Newspapers” (with Lapo
Filistrucchi), in progress.
- “Bundling as a promotional device: evidence
from newspapers”,
Revised version, November 2009.
- “Estimating market power in a
two-sided market: the case of newspapers” (with Lapo Filistrucchi), Journal of
Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (7): 1247-1266.
- “Market Definition in Printed
Media Industries: Theory, Practice and Lessons for Broadcasting” (with
Marc Ivaldi), in Paul Seabright and Juergen von Hagen (eds.), The
Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets, Cambridge University
Press, 2007.
- “Piracy
and Product Differentiation in the Market for Digital Goods” (with Matteo
Alvisi and Emanuela Carbonara), Rivista Italiana degli Economisti,
a. VIII, n. 2, 2003.
- “Piracy and Quality Choice in Monopolistic
Markets” (with
Matteo Alvisi and Emanuela Carbonara), Working Paper of the Department of
Economics of the University of Bologna, n. 436, April 2002.
SEMINARS
AND CONFERENCES
- 7th Workshop on
Media Economics,
- TILEC Workshop on “Competition
Policy and Regulation in Media Markets: Bridging Law and Economics”,
- Association of competition
economics (ACE), 6th annual conference,
- 6th
Workshop on Media
Economics, Zurich, October 2008.
- Lindau
Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economics, Lindau, August 2008.
- Invited
seminar, CentER, Tilburg, June 2008.
- ASSET Conference, Padova, November 2007.
- 5th
Workshop on Media Economics, University of Bologna (local organizer).
- Annual
Congress of the Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Vienna,
August 2006.
- Invited seminar, WZB, Berlin,
July 2006.
- Two-Sided Markets Workshop,
Toulouse, June 2006.
- Sixth CEPR Conference on
Applied Industrial Organization, Madeira, May 2006.
- International Industrial
Organization Conference 2006, Boston, April 2006.
- CEPR Conference on “Competition
Policy for International Development, Growth and Trade”, Brussels, December
2005.
- CEPR Young Researchers Meeting,
DG Competition, Brussels, December 2005.
- EUI Competition Day, Florence, November 2005.
- 3rd Workshop on
Media Economics, Hamburg, October 2005.
- XXI Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Bilbao, September 2005.
- CEPR European Summer Symposium
in Economic Theory 2005, Gerzensee (Switzerland), July 2005.
- International Industrial
Organization Conference 2005, Atlanta, April 2005.
- Invited
seminar (joint seminar CERAS (ENPC), EUREQua (Paris I), Ecole
Polytechnique and DELTA (ENS)), Maison de Sciences Economiques, Paris,
March 2005.
- (EC)2 Conference:
The Econometrics of Industrial Organization, Marseille, December 2004.
- ASSET Conference, Barcelona, November 2004.
- Conference on “Regulation of
media markets”, Toulouse, October 2004.
- Annual Conference of the
European Economic Association, Madrid, August 2004.
- Fifth CEPR Conference on
Applied Industrial Organization, Hydra (Greece), May 2004.
- 2nd Workshop on
Media Economics, Bergen, October 2003.
- Annual Conference of the European
Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Helsinki, August
2003.
- Fourth CEPR Conference on
Applied Industrial Organization, Leuven, May 2003.
- Workshop on Media Regulation,
Toulouse, March 2003.
- Second Villa Mondragone
Workshop in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Rome, July 2002.
- Summer School on Antitrust and
Regulation, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, July 2002.
- CIDE Summer School on
Econometrics, Bertinoro (Italy), June 2000.
FELLOWSHIPS
- Research Training Network
fellowship for a visiting period at the Institut d'Economie Industrielle,
University of Toulouse, January 2004 – July 2004
- “Franco Romani” fellowship of
the Einaudi foundation in Rome for studies on competition policy
(awarded), July 2003
- Marie Curie Fellowship for a
visiting period at the University of Toulouse, September 2002 – March
2003
- European University Institute
Doctoral Fellowship, 1999- 2003
- University of Bologna
Scholarship for a visiting period at the National Council for Voluntary
Organisations, London, 1997
TEACHING
- Istituzioni di Economia, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche (sede di Forlì), Università di Bologna.
- Economia industriale e politica della concorrenza, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche (sede di Forlì), Università di Bologna.
- Economia del lavoro, Master Universitario in Diritto del Lavoro, Università di Bologna.