Mario Leccese

Assistant Professor, Strategy and Innovation

Selected Research Presentations

Leccese, M. Taxing Digital Platforms: The Case of Ride-sharing and Taxis, Digital Business Institute Research Showcase, Boston, MA, 2025

Leccese, M. The Signaling Value of Technology Venture Acquisitions, 94th Southern Economic Association Meeting, Washington, DC, 2024

Leccese, M. Top Digital Platforms and Technology Ventures, Conference on Digital Platforms, USC Marshall, Los Angeles, CA, 2024

Leccese, M. Strategic Investment in Competitors: Theory and Evidence from Technology Startups, Harvard-Oxford Conference on Common Ownership, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 2024

Leccese, M. Strategic Investment in Competitors: Theory and Evidence from Technology Startups, EARIE 2024, Amsterdam, 2024

Leccese, M. Strategic Investment in Competitors: Theory and Evidence from Technology Startups, Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum, Barcelona, Spain, 2024

Leccese, M. Asymmetric Taxation, Pass-through and Market Competition, 23rd ACM Conference on Economics & Computation, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 2022

Leccese, M. How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy, NBER Conference on Megafirms and the Post-Covid Economy, Cambridge, MA, 2022

Publications

Leccese, M. (2024). “Taxing ride-sharing: Which neighborhoods pay more?”, Journal of Regional Science, 64 (4), 1393-1413

Leccese, M., Sweeting, A., Tao, X. (2024). “Should We Expect Merger Synergies to be Passed Through to Consumers?”, The Journal of Industrial Economics

Jin, G., Leccese, M., Wagman, L. (2024). “M&A and technological expansion”, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 33 (2), 338-359

Jin, G., Leccese, M., Wagman, L. (2023). “How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 89 102891-102891

Zhaoqi, C., Jin, G., Leccese, M., Lee, D., Wagman, L. (2023). “M&A and Innovation: A New Classification of Patents”, American Economic Association. Papers and Proceedings, 113 288-293

Leccese, M. (2022). “Asymmetric Taxation, Pass-through and Market Competition: Evidence from Ride-sharing and Taxis”, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation 371-372