Keele Management School

Before joining Keele Management School as Professor in Economics, I held positions at Loughborough, Nottingham and Hull University (UK), as well as the University of Sassari (Italy).

My qualifications include a DPhil in Economics (University of York, UK), a Doctorate in Economics (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and an MSc in Economics (University of Turin, Coripe Piemonte).

I am also a Senior Research Fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (http://www.rcfea.org/). I am grateful to the Economics Departments of the Texas A&M University and of
the LUISS University (Rome) for their past invitations as Visiting Professor.

My research interests cover a number of areas in applied microeconomics: pricing, with a particular focus on the airline and the travel and tourism industry; oligopoly theory with an
emphasis on models of localised competition; innovation and total factor productivity. On these, and other more general topics in Industrial Organization, I am very interested in
supervising well qualified PhD candidates.

Medda, G. and C. A. Piga (2014). ``Technological Spillovers and Productivity in Italian Manufacturing Firms'', Journal of Productivity Analysis. Forthcoming. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11123-013-0351-1 

Alderighi, M. and C. A. Piga (2014). ``Market Selection, Heterogeneity and Entry in Liberal Professions'', Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Forthcoming. 

Bottasso, A., Conti, M.  and  C. A. Piga (2013). ``Low Cost Carriers and Airports Performance: Empirical Evidence from a panel of UK Airports'', Industrial and Corporate Change. 22(3), 745-769. dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dts033

Dobson, P. and  C.A.Piga (2013). ``The Impact of Mergers on Fares Structure: Evidence from European Low-Cost Airlines'', Economic Inquiry , 51(2), 1196-1217. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2011.00392.x 

Alderighi, M. and C.A.Piga (2012).``Localized Competition, Heterogeneous Firms and Vertical Relations'',  Journal of Industrial Economics, 60(1), 46-74, dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6451.2012.00472.x 

Gaggero, A. and C.A.Piga (2011). ``Airline Market Power and Intertemporal Price Dispersion'',  Journal of Industrial Economics,59(4), 552-577,dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6451.2011.00467.x 

Bachis, E. and C.A.Piga (2011).``Low-Cost Airlines and online Price Dispersion'',  International Journal of Industrial Organization. 26(6), 655-677. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2011.02.006 

Alderighi, M., Cento A and C.A.Piga (2011) ``A case study of pricing strategies in European Airline Markets: the London - Amsterdam route'',  Journal of Air Transport Management, 17(6):369-373,  dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2011.02.009 

Alderighi, M. and C.A.Piga (2010). ``On cost restrictions in spatial competition models with heterogeneous firms'',  Economics Letters, 108(1):40-42. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.03.018 

Gaggero, A. and C.A.Piga (2010). ``Airline Competition in the British Isles'',  Transportation Research Part E,  46:270-279. 

Alderighi, M. and C.A.Piga (2008). ``Why Should a Firm Choose to Limit the Size of its Market Area",  Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38(2): 191-201. \\ dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2008.01.002 

Gil-Molto, M. and C.A.Piga (2008). ``Entry and Exit by European Low Cost and Traditional Carriers'',  Tourism Economics, 14(3):577-598. 

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Semester 1

ECO20036 - Economic decisions under risk

ECO30036 - market Imperfections and Market Failures

Semester 2

FIN40015 - Economics of Financial decisions under Risk