Chiara Fumagalli

Chiara Fumagalli is Professor of Economics and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Bocconi University. She holds dual affiliations as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission. Her academic leadership encompasses institutional governance and high-level policy advising.

Her research specializes in Industrial Organization, with focus areas including:

• Competition policy and antitrust economics
• Strategic behavior of diversified corporate groups
• Internal labor market dynamics
• Merger regulation frameworks

She has published extensively in premier journals including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics.

Her scholarly output demonstrates consistent focus on competition economics, with recent work examining internal labor markets as organizational co-insurance mechanisms, optimal merger policies for potential competitors, and dynamic foreclosure strategies. She authored the Cambridge University Press book Exclusionary Practices: The Economics of Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance.