Giacomo Calzolari

Giacomo Calzolari (August 5, 1969) is an economist and Professor of Economics at the European University Institute. His research focuses on competition policy, artificial intelligence, economics of regulation, industrial organization, banking regulation and supervision and the economics of incentives. In 1998, he received a Master in Advanced Economics at the University of Toulouse, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2001. He has received the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association and in 2014 received, with Vincenzo Denicolò, the Best paper award by the Association of Competition Economics for their paper “Competition with Exclusive Contracts and Market-Share Discounts”.

He is the main editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, co-editor of European Economy – Banks, regulation, and the real sector, and former editor of Labour: Review of labour economics and industrial relations. the Association of Competition Economics and the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy of the European Commission.

He speaks English, Italian, and French.

Selected publications

Calvano, Emilio, Calzolari, Giacomo, Denicolò, Vincenzo, Pastorello, Sergio. Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion, American Economic Review, forthcoming 2020. Calzolari, Giacomo, Denicolò, Vincenzo. Exclusive contracts and market dominance, American Economic Review, 2015, Vol.105 No. 11, pp. 3321–3351 Calzolari, Giacomo, Vincenzo Denicolò. Competition with Exclusive Contracts and Market-Share Discounts. American Economic Review, 2013, Vol. 103, No. 6, pp. 2384–2411. Calzolari, Giacomo, Colliard, Jean-Edouard, Loranth, Gyongyi, Multinational banks and supranational supervision, The Review of Financial Studies, 2019, Vol. 32, No. 8, pp. 2997–3035 Calzolari, Giacomo, Pavan, Alessandro. On the Optimality of Privacy in Sequential Contracting, Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, Vol. 130, No. 1, pp. 168–204