Mario Samano

Associate Professor of Economics

Research

Working Papers

  1. Subsidizing Crises: Evidence from Norway's Electricity Market (with Loreta Rapushi and Ritvana Rrukaj)
    February 2026

    R&R Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

  2. Renewable Portfolio Standards, Vertical Structure, and Investment (with Harim Kim)
    January 2026

    R&R Resource and Energy Economics

  3. Firms' Bidding Behavior in a New Market: Evidence from Renewable Energy Auctions (with Stefan Lamp and Silvana Tiedemann)
    July 2025
  4. Personalized Pricing and the Value of Past Purchase Histories: An Empirical Perspective (with Isis Durrmeyer and Jean-Francois Fournel)
    October 2025
  5. Everyday Regular Prices in a Multi-Product Retailer (with Nicoletta Berardi and Federico Ravenna)
    February 2025

Publications

  1. (Mis)allocation of Renewable Energy Sources (with Stefan Lamp)
    January 2023
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 10(1)

    Media coverage: Sustain Change Grow Podcast

  2. Incentivized Mergers and Cost Efficiency: Evidence from the Electricity Distribution Industry (with Rob Clark)
    January 2023
    Journal of Industrial Economics
  3. Large-scale Battery Storage, Short-term Market Outcomes, and Arbitrage (with Stefan Lamp)
    March 2022
    Energy Economics, (107)

    Media coverage: Ergs and Equilibrium Podcast

  4. Free and Second-best Entry in Oligopolies with Network Effects (with Adriana Gama)
    August 2021
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 23(4), pp. 746-759
  5. Market Power and Renewables: The Effects of Ownership Transfers (with Olivier Bahn and Paul Sarkis)
    September 2020
    Energy Journal, 42(4)
  6. Long-Run Market Configurations in a Dynamic Quality-Ladder Model with Externalities (with Marc Santugini)
    August 2020
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, (117) 103943
  7. To Rebate or Not to Rebate: Fuel Economy Standards vs. Feebates (with Isis Durrmeyer)
    December 2018
    Economic Journal, 128, pp. 3076-3116

    Media coverage: LSE Business Review

  8. Entry and Pricing on Broadway (with Taylor Jaworski and Maggie E. C. Jones)
    June 2017
    Applied Economics Letters, 25(10), pp. 653-658
  9. Dynamics in Research Joint Ventures and R&D Collaborations (with Marc Santugini and Georges Zaccour)
    April 2017
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 77, pp. 70-92
  10. Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy (with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Stanley Reynolds)
    August 2016
    Journal of Political Economy 124(4), pp. 1187-1234

    Media coverage: Marginal Revolution, Clean Technica

  11. Gasoline Prices and Fuel Economy of New Vehicles in Quebec (with Philippe Barla, and Etienne Couture)
    June 2016
    Canadian Public Policy 42(2), pp. 181-193

Other Publications

  1. Politiques environnementales dans l'industrie de l'automobile et de l'électricité
    Octobre 2019
    Le Québec économique 8, Chapitre 12

    Media coverage: CISION

  2. Comments on the OECD Study and the Hausman and Ros' Paper about the Lack of Market Competition in the Telecommunications Sector in Mexico
    July 2013
    El Trimestre Económico 80(3), pp. 541-552