I am a Research Scholar at the Empirical Legal Studies Center of the University of Michigan Law School.  Prior to joining Michigan Law, I was a Research Fellow at the University of Trento,  where I obtained my Ph.D. and J.D.

My research interests revolve around contracts and related antitrust issues, the regulation of the labor market, business law and public policy, with a particular focus on monopsony, labor mobility, and franchising.  

I study how actors, particularly firms, use covenants in business and employment contracts to protect their intellectual property and other interests and the effects of those strategies on employees, markets, and social welfare. My aim is to inform how we regulate these strategies and activities to reduce abuse and anticompetitive losses while enhancing welfare, investment, and innovation. 

RECENT WORK 

📣 CEP Discussion Paper (Feb 25, 2025): Collective bargaining and monopsony: The regulation of noncompete agreements in France (joint with T. Boeri, T. Crescioli & A. Garnero), available at: https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICATIONS/abstract.asp?index=11383 

📣 Noncompete Agreements in a Rigid Labor Market: The Case of Italy (joint with T. Boeri & A. Garnero) is out in the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2024): https://academic.oup.com/jleo/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jleo/ewae012/7657785?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false Now in Open Access (Mar 4, 2025)