Carmine Ornaghi is Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton. He earned his PhD from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2004. His research focuses on empirical industrial organization and competition policy, with application to the pharmaceutical industry. His papers have been published in leading scientific journals, including the Journal of the European Economic Association, the International Journal of Industrial Organization and the Journal of Industrial Economics. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the European Economic Review and the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. He has been Principal Investigator in an ESRC funded research aimed at evaluating the impact of mergers on innovation and productivity of pharmaceutical companies. He has also served as academic advisor for the DG-Comp in two projects assessing the impact of enforcement of competition policies in the pharmaceutical industry.
