Research Areas

Industrial Organization and Public Economics: Antitrust, Procurement, Regulation, Public sector.

Selected Publications

American Economic Journal: Micro (2023), Games and Economic Behavior (2015), Economic Journal (1998), Journal of the European Economic Association (2014, 2022), International Journal of Industrial Organization (2002, 2015), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (Forthcoming), Journal of Industrial Economics (1999), Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (2020), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2011), Journal of Public Economics (2006),  Rand Journal of Economics (2004, 2012, 2012), Review of Economic Studies (2021).  

Expert Adviser

Competition Commission in the UK, European Commission (DG Connect, DG Grow), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Financial Service Authority UK,   Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), Office of Fair Trading (OFT),  International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) , Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)  and the World Bank (WB).

My citations

Some Recent Institutional Presentations 

International Competition Network (ICN) Conference, CMA Host Plenary: Public procurement and competition, 7-9 May 2025, Edimburgh, Video (my speech min 19:21).

Prospective Scenarios, PNRR, and the EU Strategy for Sustainable Mobility, Conference organized by the Italian Society for Transport Policy (SIPOTRA), 28 April, Video (my speech min 1:40). Slides.  

Roundtable, I processi di aggregazione nei servizi pubblici locali, WEBINAR 16 April, Video (my speech min 7:00). Slides.

CRA Annual Conference,  Session 1 Regaining Competitiveness- boom or bust for competition policy?, Brussels, 10 December 2024. Video of session 1 (my speech min.11:00 and min.44:05)

OECD Competition Committee, Paris (December 2024): The interaction between Competition and Democracy. Note by Italy. 

La Relazione Annuale dell'Autorità, Università Bocconi di Milano. Organizzato dall'Associazione Antitrust Italiana, 6 November 2024. Video.

ACE Conference, Special Policy Session: Competition and Industrial Policy, introductory presentation, Bocconi University, Milan, 15-16 November 2024.

LEAR Competition Festival, Plenary Session, National Competition Authority Roundtable, Rome, 24-27 September 2024. 

ICN workshop on “The Role of Competition in Supporting Sustainable Development Goals", Day one, July 2024. Video panel 2 (min. 2:08:00). 

CRESSE Conference, Special policy session 7 “Leniency Applications, Damage Claims and Ex officio Investigations: Recent Developments”, Chania, Crete, 7 July 2024.

MaCCI Law and Economics Conference on Recent Developments in Merger Control, University of Mannheim, 20-21 June, 2024. Panel on Welfare Standard in Merger Control: Beyond Consumer Surplus?

OECD Competition Committee, Paris (June 2024): The intersection between competition and data privacy, Note by Italy.

FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DELL'ECONOMIA, Torino, 30 maggio - 2 giugno 2024. Intervento su "Dati e Intelligenza artificiale, Usi, Abusi e possibili rimedi".

6th W@COMPETITION, 22 February, Brussels. Panel on Innovative Economics of Contemporary Competition Enforcement. 

LA RELAZIONE ANNUALE DELL'AUTORITA', Università Cattolica di Milano. Organizzato dall'Associazione Italiana Antitrust, December 2023. Video.

VI LISBON CONFERENCE ON COMPETITION LAW AND ECONOMICS, Lisbon, 8-9 November 2023. Panel on Recent trends in cartels.

LEAR Competition Festival, National Competition Authority Roundtable, Rome, September 2023.

FORDHAM University School of Law- 50th Annual Conference, Panel "Antitrust for the Next 50 years", New York, September 2023.  

CRESSE conference, Special policy sessions “Lessons from Recent Excessive Pricing Cases" and “Assessing the Performance of Competition Agencies”, Rhodes, June/July 2023.

OECD Competition Committee, Paris (June 2023): Algorithmic Competition, Note by Italy and Competition in the Circular Economy, Note by Italy. 

VII Biennial Conference Associazione Antitrust Italiana, Roundtable "Il futuro dell’Antitrust tra politica industriale e tutela del consumatore", Firenze, June 2023.

XI Edizione International Master in Public Procurement Management, Opening ceremony- keynote speech Enhancing Competition in Public Procurement, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, March 2023.

Antitrust policies between public and private enforcement - US vs Europe Perspective, Bocconi University, Milan (February, 2023).

5th W@Competition Conference, The Italian Competition Authority enforcement experience in the digital sector, Brussels (February 2023).

Autorità indipendenti, anticorruzione e whistleblowing: le questioni aperte, Rome (October 2022). Cartelli e corruzione: tra legalità ed efficienza , CONSOB, quaderno giuridico 26/2023, 15-20.

OECD Competition Committee, Paris (November 2022): Director Disqualification and Bidder Exclusion in Competition Enforcement, Note by Italy.

Lear Competition Festival: Views from European National Competition Authority’s Chairs with the participation of Cani Fernandez, Ioannis Lianos, Pinar Akman, Fabienne Siredey Garnier and Elisabetta Iossa. Watch Video HERE.

International Competition Network Conference, Berlin ICN 2022. Panel: Cartel Enforcement. My speech at Cartel Plenary Session on Leniency (min. 16.47-22.50) and Bid rigging (min. 1:10:50-1:16:51). 

Recent Papers

• Iossa, E.,  and Chiara Latour (2025). Firms’ Legality and Efficiency: Evidence from Public Procurement. Forthcoming, European Journal of Law and Economics.

• Iossa E., Calini C. and Catenazzo A. (2025), Multiple Tools to Enhance Competition in Public Procurement. Previous Version: CEIS Working Paper No. 594, Vol. 23, Issue 2, November 2024. Forthcoming in European Competition Journal.

• Calini C. and Iossa E. (2024), Declining Trend in Leniency? Causes and Responses. CPI Antitrust Chronicle, December 2024.

• Calini C. and Iossa E. (2024), Main Trends in Global Antitrust Enforcement: Proactive Enforcers in a Changing World. Revue Concurrences, 2024.

• Iossa, E., Marx, L. Loertscher, S. and Patrick Rey (2024). Coordination in the Fight against Collusion.  American Economic Journal: Micro, 16(1), 224-261.

• Iossa E. and F. Mattonai (2023), Il contributo dell’AGCM allo sviluppo della sostenibilità. Mercato Concorrenza Regole, 3, 2023.

• Di Gaetano L. and Iossa E. (2023), The Italian experience in the enforcement of excessive prices: A calibrated approach, CPI Antitrust Chronicles, December 2023.

• Calini C. and Iossa E. (2023), Multiplicity of Tools for Antitrust and Consumer Protection in Digital Markets: The Italian Experience and the road ahead. European Competition Journal, 2023.

• Iossa, E. (2023), Corruption risks in infrastructure projects, Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Corruption Law, Edited by Mark Pieth and Tina Søreide. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK · Northampton, MA, US. 

• Burguet, R. Iossa, E. and G. Spagnolo (2022); Procurement Cartels and the Fight Against (Outsider) Bribing (2024). European Journal of Political Economy, 81. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102506. 

• Cottini, Elena, Ghinetti, Paolo, Iossa, Elisabetta , Sacco, Pierluigi (2022), Stress, Effort and Incentives at Work . Oxford Economic Papers.  

• Iossa E., Rey Patrick and Mike Waterson (2022) Organizing Competition for the Market Journal of the European Economic Association. Teaching materials now posted on JEEA website.

• Che, Yeon-Koo and Patrick Rey (2021) Prizes versus Contracts as Incentives for Innovation, Review of Economic Studies, 88(5): 2149–2178, 

• Decarolis, F., de Rassenfosse, G., Iossa, E., Giuffrida, L.M., Mollisi, V. Raiteri E. and G. Spagnolo (2021), Buyers' Role in Innovation Procurement,  Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 30(4) 2021: 697-720.

• De Chiara, A. and E. Iossa (2021), Setting the Budget for Targeted Research Projects, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 21(3) 1013-1034. 

• Decarolis, F., Iossa, E., Giuffrida, L.M., Mollisi, V. and G. Spagnolo (2020), Bureaucratic Competence and Procurement Outcomes,  Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 36: 537-597.

• De Chiara, A. and E. Iossa (2020) Public Procurement as a Demand-side Policy: Project Competition and Innovation Incentives. CEPR Discussion paper 13664.  

• Camboni, Riccardo, Corazzini, Luca, Iossa, Elisabetta, Valbonesi, Paola. Bid Preferences as Incentives for Innovation: Experimental Evidence, 2018. Under revision.