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Andrea Pezzoli is Director General for Competition of the Italian Competition Authority, where he has worked since 1993 as Head of the Investigative Directorate “Food, Pharmaceutical and Transport” and as Chief Economist. Previously he was a senior economist of the Research Department of Istituto Mobiliare Italiano (1981-86) and Head of the Industrial Policy Unit of the Centro Europeo Ricerche (1986-93).
He teaches Competition Issues at the University of Tor Vergata and at Luiss University in Rome. Author of several articles in the field of Competition Policy and Industrial Economics.
He is the co-author with Lapo Berti of Le stagioni dell'antitrust: dalla tutela della concorrenza alla tutela del consumatore, UBE, 2010. More recently he wrote “Originators vs Originators: Competition Before the Market and Market Power Beyond Dominance” in G. Muscolo and G. Pitruzzella (eds), Competition and Patent Law in the Pharmaceutical Sector, Wolters Kluwer, 2016; “Il risarcimento del danno antitrust, tra diritto ed economia: brevi note di commento alla sentenza della Corte di Cassazione, sez. I, del 23 marzo 2016, n. 5763”, Giustizia Civile, October 2016. (with Paolo Cassinis); “Big Data e antitrust: un’occasione per tornare ad occuparci di struttura?” in Falce, V. Ghidini, G. and Olivieri, G. (eds.) “Informazione e Big Data tra Innovazione e Concorrenza”, Giuffrè, 2017; “Private e Public enforcement: c’è Danno e Danno”, Analisi Giuridica dell’Economia, vol. 2/2017 (with G. Sepe); “Lavoratori dei dati di tutti i Paesi unitevi! Big Data e i mercati senza prezzo”, Menabò di Etica e Economia, n. 93, 2018; ”Proprietary Systems, Innovation and Competition: Is there Any Scope for Aftermarkets”, in The Interplay Between Competition Law and Intellectual Property: An International Perspective, G. Muscolo and M. Tavassi (eds), Kluwer, 2019 (with C. D’Amore).