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Giacomo Calzolari

Economist, European University Institute
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Professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence, where he also serves as Provost for Research and External Relations, and CEPR research fellow. PhD from the University of Toulouse; joined the EUI in 2018 from the University of Bologna. Research spans industrial organization, competition policy, banking regulation, and the economics of artificial intelligence. Author, with Emilio Calvano, Vincenzo Denicolò, and Sergio Pastorello, of work on algorithmic pricing, including 'Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion' (American Economic Review, 2020). Recipient of the European Economic Association's Young Economist Award. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

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15 works in the co-authorship map · 1,383 citations across them

Sources

  1. Giacomo Calzolari — European University Institute
  2. Giacomo Calzolari — Wikipedia
  3. Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion
  4. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source

In the network

3 co-authors on the map · PageRank #104 of 400 · bridge #221 of 400 · 4 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Algorithmic pricing and collusion.

Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; what these numbers mean. See Giacomo Calzolari on the map

Documented positions

Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown

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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

Emilio Calvano (8), Vincenzo Denicolò (8), Sergio Pastorello (7)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (3 of 3 shown).

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