Giovanni Alberto Tabacco

Contact Information
giovanni.tabacco2@unibo.it
Mobile: +39 3206247078

ACADEMIC POSITION
Lecturer in Economics (tenure track), Swansea University, School of Management, to be
commenced from Sep 2014.
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Bologna.
October 2012 August 2014.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). Jan 2009 July 2012.
Dissertation Title: Market Structure and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of the
U.S. Airline Industry.
Advisors: Steve Davies and Bruce Lyons.
M.A. in Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). September 2002 August
2003.
Laurea in Economia Politica (equivalent to current Italian Laurea Magistralis), University
of Bologna, Italy. March 2001.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Industrial Organization, Experimental Industrial Organization, Antitrust Policy.
PUBLICATIONS AND SUBMITTED PAPERS
A New Way to Assess Banking Competition, Economics Letters, Vol. 121, Issue 2,
November 2013, pp. 167-169.
Market Structure and Intensity of Price Competition in EU Banking (submitted).
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Does Competition Spur Innovation? Evidence from Labor Productivity Data for the
Banking Industry (work in progress).
How Firm Numbers and Market Share Asymmetry Affect Cartels: Experimental Evidence
with Franco Mariuzzo and Ailko Van Der Veen (work in progress).

Entry and Territory Allocation in the US Airline Industry, with Franco Mariuzzo (work
in progress).
Does Effect of Multimarket Contact Depend on Market Concentration? Empirical
Evidence from the US Airline Industry, with Volodymyr Bilotkach (work in progress).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, University of East Anglia, School of Economics, October 2009 May
2012.
Economics and Society 2012
Multinational Firms 2011
Introductory Microeconomics, 2010 and 2011
Economics for Business, 2010 and 2011
Economic Concepts 2010 (macroeconomics part) and 2011 (microeconomics part)
Economics of Film and TV 2009
Principles of Corporate Strategy 2009
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Seminar and Conference presentations
2013: 8th RES Ph.D. Meeting, Queen Mary University of London, London (UK).
2012: XXVII Jornadas de Economia Industrial, Murcia (Spain); presenter and
discussant. 7th RES Ph.D. Meeting, Queen Mary University of London, London
(UK).
2011: The Economics and Management of Leisure, Travel and Tourism, the
Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, Rimini (Italy). V Intertic Conference on
Innovation, Competition and the New Economy, Venice (Italy), University Ca
Foscari; presenter and discussant. 2nd Workshop Industrial Organization: Theory,
Empirics and Experiments, Otranto (Italy), University of Salento. School of
Economics Internal Seminar, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK).
2010: School of Economics Internal Seminar, University of East Anglia, Norwich
(UK).
2009: School of Economics Internal Seminar, University of East Anglia, Norwich
(UK).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Royal Economic Society.
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OTHER EXPERIENCE
Part-time economics researcher, University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies,
January 2007 December 2008, Leeds, (UK).
Economist, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Intercent-ER, January 2007 February 2008,
Bologna (Italy).
Economics researcher, University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies, September 2005
November 2006, Leeds, (UK).
Assistant Analyst, Argus Vickers American Equity Research Ltd, London (UK): internship
from 22nd April to 17th May 2002.
REFERENCES
Dr. Franco Mariuzzo

Associate Professor Andrea Mantovani

School of Economics

Department of Economics

University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)

University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

Tel. : (+44) (0) 1603 597530

Tel.: (+39) 051 2092602

Email: f.mariuzzo@uea.ac.uk

Email: a.mantovani@unibo.it

Professor Bruce Lyons

School of Economics
University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)
Tel. : (+44) (0) 1603 592084
b.lyons@uea.ac.uk