Current position​

2015 - 
Assistant Professor, Economics, McGill University

​Education

2009-2015
PhD Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse.
Dissertation: “Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals” Committee: Pierre Dubois (main advisor), Bruno Jullien, Philippe Choné, Frank Verboven “Mention très honorable avec felicitations du jury” 

2008
M.Sc.-BA Management of Innovation, Rotterdam School of Management, Rotterdam.

2007
M.Sc. Economics and Management, Bocconi University, Milan. Cum laude.

2005
B.Sc. Economics and Management, Bocconi University. Cum laude.

Affiliations

CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy and Research) - Research Affiliate
CIREQ (Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Economie Quantitative) - Research Fellow
CIRANO (Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations) - Main researcher of the theme Competition

Grants, Awards and Fellowships

2021

2020
McGill SSHRC General Research Fund (7,000 CAD)
SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council) Insight Development Grant “The health and economic consequences of clinical practice variation: evidence from cancer care” (67,210 CAD)

2019
McGill SSHD internal grant
​McGill Observatory on Health and Social Services Reforms (MOHSSR) grant

2018
FRQSC grant “The Impact of Generic Drug Price Regulation On Consumption, Expenditures and Drug Availibility across Canada” (44,975 CAD)

2016
Dean of Arts Development Fund
Paper Presentation Grant
​CEPR Travel Award

2015 - 2016
McGill Start-up grant

2014 - 2015
CREST Research Fellowship

2012 - 2013
Teaching and Research Scholarship (ATER), University of Toulouse

2009 - 2012
PhD Scholarship of the French Ministry of Education

2008 - 2009
Master Scholarship of the Italian Region of Sardinia

2006 - 2007
Double Master Degree Scholarship, Bocconi University

Teaching experience

  • Industrial Organization, Undergraduate (Econ305), McGill University (Fall, since 2015)
  • Empirical Industrial Organization, PhD (Econ737), McGill University (Winter, since 2015)
  • ​Industrial Organization, PhD (Econ 637), McGill University (Fall, since 2018)
  • Guest lecturer for the Business of Science, Undergraduate (MIMM387), McGill University (Winter 2017)
  • TA for Microeconomics (Undergraduate, in French) and Applied Econometrics (Graduate, in English and French), University of Toulouse (2012-2013)

Other activities

  • Referee for: American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, RAND Journal of Economics, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, European Journal of Health Economics
  • External grant reviewer for SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council) and CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
  • Co-organizer of the Workshop on the Applications of Industrial Organization: 2016 - Health Care (with Nathan Yang, McGill Desautels); 2017 - Energy and Environment (with Nathan Yang, McGill Desautels, and Mario Samano, HEC Montreal); 2018 - Estimating Productivity (with Nathan Yang, McGill Desautels, Mario Samano, HEC Montreal, and Mathieu Marcoux, Université de Montréal)​
  • Co-organizer of CIREQ Applied Economics Conference 2019 and 2020 with: Nathan Yang (McGill Desautels), Mario Samano (HEC Montreal), and Mathieu Marcoux (U Montreal)
  • Local co-organizer of the 17th Annual C​HESG Meeting (Canadian Health Economics Study Group), Montreal May 31st and June 1st 2018 (with Erin Strumpf)
  • McGill Economics Placement co-officer 2015-2018
  • Scientific committee: Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES) 2021; European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM) 2022
  • McGill Economics Hiring Committee (2018-2020)
  • McGill Economics Qualifying Year Advisor (since 2020)
  • McGill Economics Graduate Admission Committee (2017)
  • Econ Department member of the Committee for Student Affairs, McGill University (2016-2021)
  • Coordinator of the TSE Competition Policy Workshop for 2013-2014

Past positions

2014 - 2015
Visiting student with grant, CREST. Paris.

2013 - 2014
Research assistant to Prof. Pierre Dubois. Toulouse School of Economics. Toulouse.

2012 - 2013
Teaching assistant, Toulouse School of Economics. Toulouse.

2011
Visiting student, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Barcelona.

2008
Intern, Public Policy, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. New York.

2007 - 2008
Research Assistant, CESPRI, Bocconi University. Milan.

2007
Intern, Accenture. Milan.

Information updated September 2022