Massimo Motta

MSc in Competition and Market Regulation, MSc in Economics

Prof. Massimo Motta has been the Dean of the Barcelona GSE since September 2009. He is also an ICREA Professor of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a Research Professor of the Barcelona GSE.

At the Barcelona GSE, Prof. Motta has also been the promoter and Director of the MSc in Competition and Market Regulation. Previously, he was the first Director of the MSc in Economics (1993-98), when he was Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1993-98). He has also been Professor and Head (2003-05) of the Economics Department at the European University Institute, Florence, as well as Professor at the Università di Bologna.

Prof. Motta is Fellow of the European Economic Association, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, and of CESifo, Munich, as well as member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Competition Economists, of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission, and of the Expert Academic Panel of Ofcom, London.

His main areas of research are industrial organization and competition policy. He has advised companies and the European Commission in antitrust and merger cases. He has extensive experience in supervising doctoral dissertations, and his former students have obtained important positions in academia, consulting firms, and in competition and regulatory agencies. His work has been published in several leading international journals.

Industrial organization, competition policy

Massimo Motta's book, Competition Policy: Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press), published in March 2004, is the standard international reference on the economics of antitrust.