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Contact Details:
Alberto Salvo
Assistant Professor
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208,
USA
1-847-491-8677
a-salvo@kellogg.northwestern.edu
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/salvo_alberto.aspx

Research Interests: Industrial Organization, International Trade, Environmental Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Strategy

Curriculum Vitae: CV
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Publications (in Peer-Reviewed Journals):

(Joint with George Deltas and Helder Vasconcelos) “Consumer-Surplus-Enhancing Collusion and Trade”
RAND Journal of Economics, Forthcoming

(Joint with Cristian Huse) “Is Arbitrage Tying the Price of Ethanol to that of Gasoline? Evidence from the Uptake of Flexible-Fuel Technology”
ONLINE APPENDIX: “Further Details on Data and Causality Tests”
Energy Journal, 32(3), pp. 119-148, 2011

“Inferring Market Power under the Threat of Entry: The Case of the Brazilian Cement Industry”
SUPPLEMENT: “Online Appendix to Inferring Market Power under the Threat of Entry”
RAND Journal of Economics, 41(2), pp. 326-350, 2010
* An earlier version of this paper won an Antitrust Policy Award from the Brazilian Ministry of the Treasury in November 2007.

“Trade Flows in a Spatial Oligopoly: Gravity Fits Well, But What Does it Explain?”
Canadian Journal of Economics, 43(1), pp. 63-96, 2010
* This paper won the Robert Mundell prize, awarded by the Canadian Economics Association for the best article published in the Canadian Journal of Economics in 2010 written by a young economist.

“Sequential Cross-Border Mergers in Models of Oligopoly”
Economica, 77(306), pp. 352-383, 2010

“Cut-Throat Fringe Competition in an Emerging Country Market: Tax Evasion or the Absence of Market Power?”
SUPPLEMENT: “Online Appendix to Cut-Throat Fringe Competition in an Emerging Country Market”
Journal of Industrial Economics, 57(4), pp. 677-711, 2009
* This paper won a Young Economists’ Essay Award from the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics in September 2007.

Working Papers (and Status):

(Joint with Alon Eizenberg) “Demand in the Wake of an Emerging Middle Class and Low-End Entry”
Date of version: January 2012

(Joint with Cristian Huse) “Build It, But Will They Come? Evidence from Consumer Choice between Gasoline and Sugarcane Ethanol”
Date of version: January 2012 (Submitted)

Work in Progress (Incomplete list of projects):

(Joint with Alon Eizenberg) “Pricing and Entry in the Wake of an Emerging Middle Class”

(Joint with Franz Geiger and Mark Peterson, Northwestern Chemistry; ISEN support) “Fuel Mix and Local Air Quality”

(Joint with Tiago Pires) “The Tip of the Iceberg: Actual Trade Flows Understate the Extent of Globalization”

(Joint with George Deltas and Helder Vasconcelos) “Market Allocation Schemes”

(Joint with Eduardo Fiuza and Cristian Huse) “Jointly Modeling the Product Market and the Equity Market: Before and After a Big Beer Merger”

Published Book Chapters and Policy Papers:

Antitrust

(In Portuguese, prepared for the Administrative Council for Economic Defense-CADE, Ministry of Justice) “A Cautionary Note on the Applicability of the Bresnahan-Lau Framework”
Revista de Direito da Concorrência, 18 (special edition on cartels), pp. 11-59, 2008

(In Portuguese, joint with Cristian Huse) “Estimation and Identification of Demand and Supply”
In: Quantitative Methods Applied to Antitrust and Regulation, edited by Eduardo P. S. Fiuza and Ronaldo Seroa da Motta (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, IPEA). Brasília: SDE (Ministry of Justice), 2006

Published Teaching Material:

International Business Strategy

(Joint with Dan Spulber) “Cemex: International Market Maker in Cement”
Journal of Strategic Management Education, 3, 1-24, 2006