Leonardo Madio is currently Senior Assistant Professor (RtdB, tenure-track) at the University of Padova and Visiting Associate Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics.

He is also affiliated to the CESifo Research Network and to the Health Economics Data Group (HEDG) of the University of York. Between 2020 and 2023 he was a "Unicredit & Universities Foscolo Europe Fellow" at the dSEA UNIPD. He also worked as a Research Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics and at the CORE - Universitè catholique de Louvain. In 2022 he was visiting researcher at the ESMT Berlin. He obtained the Ph.D from the University of York in 2019.

His research interests are in the field of Industrial Organization, Digital Economics and Competition Policy. He is currently working on platform governance of quality and innovation, vertical relations within platform markets, and price and algorithmic transparency in online marketplaces. Moreover, he also studied the liberalization of the (light) cannabis market in Italy.

His past research on the market of data and the role of data brokers was mentioned in the Biden-Harris Economic Council Report in 2022.

His research has been published in top journals like Management Science, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, European Economic Review, amongst others.

He holds the Italian Habilitation for Associate Professor (Professore di II Fascia) in Economia Politica (13/A1), Scienza delle Finanze (13/A3), and Economia Applicata (13/A6).

Sito internet: www.leonardomadio.eu

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1. Lefouili, Y, Madio, L. & Toh, Y (Forthcoming). Privacy regulation and quality-enhancing innovation. Journal of Industrial Economics Forthcoming. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joie.12374


2. Carroni, E., Madio, L., & Shekhar, S. (Forthcoming). Superstar exclusivity in two-sided markets. Management Science. Forthcoming. DOI: https://10.1287/mnsc.2023.4720


3. Madio, L., & Pignataro, A. (2024). Collusion sustainability with a capacity-constrained firm. Oxford Economic Papers. 76(1), 227-249. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpac054


4. Madio, L. & Principe, F. (2023). Who supports liberal policies? A tale of two referendums in Italy. Economics Letters. 232, 111338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111338


5. Gu, Y., Madio, L., & Reggiani, C. (2022). Data brokers co-opetition. Oxford Economic Papers, 74(3), 820-839. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpab042


6. Lefouili, Y., & Madio, L. (2022). The economics of platform liability. European Journal of Law and Economics, 53(3), 319-351. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-022-09728-7


7. Carrieri, V., Madio, L., & Principe, F. (2020). Do-It-Yourself medicine? The impact of light cannabis liberalization on prescription drugs. Journal of Health Economics, 74, 102371. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102371


8. Carrieri, V., Madio, L., & Principe, F. (2019). Light cannabis and organized crime: Evidence from (unintended) liberalization in Italy. European Economic Review, 113, 63-76. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.01.003


9. Carrieri, V., Madio, L., & Principe, F. (2019). Vaccine hesitancy and (fake) news: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Italy. Health Economics, 28(11), 1377-1382. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3937

My research interests are in the field of Industrial Organization, Digital Economics and Competition Policy. I am currently working on platform governance of quality and innovation, vertical relations within platform markets, and price and algorithmic transparency in online marketplaces. Moreover, he also studied the liberalization of the (light) cannabis market in Italy.

Mergers, Startup Acquisitions and innovation
Reputation systems (rating, reviews) in online markets
Online quality and platform's incentives (liability, content moderation, screening)
Cyber risks and firms/banks investments
Privacy regulation
Data market
Regulation of online platforms