I am an assistant professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My field is empirical industrial organization.
research
PUBLISHED and Forthcoming PaperS:
Regulatory Competition and the Market for Corporate Law, with Ofer Eldar - AEJ:Microeconomics Vol. 12, No. 2, May 2020 (pp. 60-98) - Featured on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
A Comparison of Testing and Estimation of Firm Conduct, with Christopher Sullivan - Economics Letters Vol. 212, March 2022 (pp. 110316) - preprint
Differentiated-Products Cournot Attributes Higher Markups Than Bertrand-Nash, with Daniel Quint, Christopher Sullivan and Sarah Waldfogel - Economics Letters Vol. 219, October 2022 (pp. 110804) - preprint
Estimation of Discrete Games with Weak Assumptions on Information, with Camilla Roncoroni - Review of Economic Studies Vol. 90, Issue 4, July 2023, (pp. 2006–2041), Featured Article - Young Economists' Essay Award at EARIE 2016, Young Economist Prize at XXXI Jornadas de Economía Industrial - preprint
The Rise of Urgent Care Centers: Implications for Competition and Access to Health Care, with Corina Mommaerts, Natalia Serna, and Christopher Sullivan - Forthcoming at Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
The Competitive Conduct of Consumer Cooperatives, with Marco Duarte and Camilla Roncoroni - Forthcoming at RAND Journal of Economics - YouTube video of CEPR VIOS talk
Working Papers:
Triplet Embeddings for Demand Estimation, with Jonathon McClure and Alan Sorensen - Extended Abstract in EC 22: “Embeddings and Distance-based Demand for Differentiated Products” - Conditionally accepted at AEJ:Microeconomics
Testing Firm Conduct, with Marco Duarte, Mikkel Sølvsten and Christopher Sullivan - Conditionally accepted at Quantitative Economics
An Equilibrium Model of Rollover Lotteries, with Giovanni Compiani and Lones Smith
Testing Information Ordering for Strategic Agents, with Sukjin Han and Hiroaki Kaido
Estimation of Games under No Regret, with Niccolò Lomys
Falsifying Models of Firm Conduct, with Daniel Quint, Christopher Sullivan and Sarah Waldfogel
Political Connections and Market Structure, with Camilla Roncoroni - Public Utility Research Prize for the Best Paper in Regulatory Economics at IIOC 2017
software packages:
pyRVtest: A Python package for testing firm conduct, with Marco Duarte, Mikkel Sølvsten, Christopher Sullivan, and Anya Tarascina
Teaching
ECON 301: Intermediate Microeconomics (Fall 2016, 2019-2022; Spring 2018)
ECON 690/725: Machine Learning for Economists - M.A. Level (Fall 2018-2022)
ECON 762/761: Empirical Industrial Organization - Ph.D. Level (Fall 2016, 2019-2022; Spring 2018, 2019)
CV
E-mail: magnolfi@wisc.edu
Office: Room 6426, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1393