Tommaso Valletti is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School. He has previously taught at the London School of Economics, Rome "Tor Vergata", Telecom ParisTech/Ecole Polytechnique, and Turin. Tommaso has a magna cum laude degree in engineering and a flute diploma from Turin, and holds a MSc and a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.
Tommaso is currently the Head of the Department of Economics & Public Policy at Imperial College Business School. He is a Non-Executive Director to the board of the Financial Conduct Authority. He is the Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Research and Policy Network on Competition Policy. He was the Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition) between 2016 and 2019.
Tommaso's main research interests are in industrial economics, regulation, and competition economics. Tommaso has held several editorial positions (Editor of Information Economics & Policy, Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and of Economica). He has published numerous articles in journals such as the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of International Economics, Management Science, Marketing Science, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics and Review of Economic Studies. For a full list see http://ideas.repec.org/f/pva219.html.
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DP17178 Political Power and Market Power
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Draghi is right on many issues, but he is wrong on telecoms
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- EU policies
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Loss aversion and consumer inertia: New evidence from phone subscriptions
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- Microeconomic regulation
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Advertiser block lists as a threat to media integrity
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- Frontiers of economic research
VoxEU Blog/Review
Rethinking media pluralism in France
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- Competition Policy
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Political power and market power: Evidence from mergers
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