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Current position​


2023 - 

Economic Analyst, European Commission Joint Research Center, Unit T1 - Digital Economy

​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 2015-2023
CIRANO (Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations) - Research fellow 2016-2023

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
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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


  • Guest lecturer for PhD course on Empirical Industrial Organization, University of Genoa (Spring 2025)
  • 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 Political Economy, Journal of the European Economic Association, RAND Journal of Economics, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Political Economy: Micro, Journal of Industrial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Health Economics, Economics Journal, 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 CEPR Virtual IO Seminar 2023-2024​
  • EIEF-IGIER-UniBo Workshop on Industrial Organization 2024
  • 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)​
  • Organizer of CIREQ Applied Economics Conference 2019 and 2020 with: Nathan Yang (McGill Desautels), Mario Samano (HEC Montreal), and Mathieu Marcoux (U Montreal)
  • Local 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; EARIE 2023, 2024, 2025
  • 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


2015 - 2023


​2014-2015

​Assistant Professor, Economics, McGill University. Montreal.

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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.
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