Vincenzo Denicolò
Professor of Economics
University of Bologna
Vincenzo Denicolò is professor of economics at the University of Bologna and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
His research focuses on industrial organization, particularly the economics of innovation and competition policy. He also works on endogenous-growth theory and social-choice theory.
At the University of Bologna, Denicolò has served as professor of economics and previously as associate professor and assistant professor. He also served as professor of economics at the University of Parma and later at the University of Leicester, where he held research-leadership responsibilities. Within the University of Bologna, he has directed graduate and doctoral programs in economics and led the Bologna Centre for Law & Economics.
He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute, the University of Paris II, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Denicolò has contributed to competition-policy practice as a member of the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority academic panel and as a member of the European Commission’s Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and previously co-edited the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
Denicolò earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Bologna.