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Emilio Calvano

Economist, LUISS University, Rome
Signed the letter · Academia · Italy

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Full professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at LUISS University in Rome since 2023, previously at the University of Bologna. Associate faculty member at the Toulouse School of Economics, CEPR research fellow, and co-editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization. Author, with Giacomo Calzolari, Vincenzo Denicolò, and Sergio Pastorello, of work on algorithmic pricing, including 'Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion' (American Economic Review, 2020), an experimental study in which Q-learning pricing algorithms learned to charge supracompetitive prices without communicating. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

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16 works in the co-authorship map · 1,530 citations across them

Sources

  1. Emilio Calvano — LUISS Department of Economics and Finance faculty page
  2. Emilio Calvano — Toulouse School of Economics
  3. Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion
  4. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source

In the network

7 co-authors on the map · PageRank #50 of 400 · bridge #18 of 400 · 3 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Algorithmic pricing and collusion.

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Documented positions

Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Will AI widen inequality? unknown

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Should governments act on AI now? leans agree

Co-authored work finds AI pricing algorithms can learn to collude tacitly and calls for fresh policy approaches to AI.

Evidence

  1. “This ability can be both a source of efficiency and cause of concern for the risk that algorithms autonomously and tacitly learn to collude.” — source
  2. “These uncharted complexities demand more research and entirely fresh policy approaches.” — source

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

How fast will the impact arrive? unknown

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Selected work

Writes with

Giacomo Calzolari (8), Sergio Pastorello (7), Vincenzo Denicolò (7), Joshua Gans (2), Susan Athey (2), Gary Biglaiser (1), Jacques Crémer (1)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (7 of 7 shown).

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