Research
Research Fellow: Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Affiliated Researcher
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Research Areas
- Innovation, Technology, and Productivity
- Competition Policy and Market Power
- Industrial Policy
- Industry Dynamics and Strategic Interaction
- Regulation and Consumer Welfare
- Applied Econometrics and Machine Learning
Bio
Dr. Florin Maican is a researcher in economics and financial economics with expertise in industrial organization, economics of technology and innovation, competition policy, and market dynamics. His research examines how technology and market policies shape competition, productivity dynamics, industry evolution, and consumer welfare.
Maican has conducted influential studies on the effects of regulation, entry barriers, state aid, and innovation policies across diverse sectors, including retail, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and manufacturing. His work creates novel methodological tools that combine recent advances in econometrics with machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques to analyze increasingly complex markets. A frequent presenter at major international conferences,
Maican has delivered invited talks at leading academic institutions and actively collaborates with industry and policy institutions. His contributions span both theoretical advances and empirical applications, providing insights that inform both academic understanding and policy design.
Selected publications
Working Papers
Measuring the Dynamic Effects of Building Broadband Infrastructure (with Matilda Orth) CEPR Working Paper DP20415 pdf (2025-06)
Entry Regulations and Product Variety in Retail (with Matilda Orth), CEPR Working paper DP15992, pdf (2024-09)
The Impact of Subsidies on Market Structure and Welfare in Retail (with Matilda Orth) pdf (2023-03) (EARIE's 50th Year Best Paper Award - Finalist, 2023)
Quantifying the Impact of State Aid to Pharmacies (with Matilda Orth) pdf (2025-02)
The Impact of Entry Reforms on Product Access and Quality in Pharmacies (with Matilda Orth) pdf (2024-09)
Broadband Infrastructure and Firm Performance (with Matilda Orth) pdf (2021-05)
The Determinants of Market Structure Dynamics in High-Tech Services, pdf (Draft: 2019-03)
Inventories Behavior, Demand, and Productivity in Retail (with Matilda Orth), 2018 pdf (CEPR Working Paper DP13308)
Selected Publications
Economies of Scope in Retailing (with Matilda Orth), Handbook chapter, Elgar Encyclopedia of Retailing, Edward Elgar, 2025
Tariffs – A Serious Barrier to Innovation (Tullar – ett hårt slag mot innovation) (with Matilda Orth), Ekonomisk Debatt, 2025 pdf (2025-04-in Swedish)
The Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment (with Matilda Orth, Mark Roberts, Van Anh Vuong), pdf (NBER/CEPR Working paper DP15369) Media: VoxEU, Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA), 2023
Determinants of Economies of Scope in Retail (with Matilda Orth) pdf (CEPR Working paper DP15084, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021
Entry Regulations, Welfare and Determinants of Market Structure (with Matilda Orth), pdf (draft), International Economic Review, 2018
Digitization, structural change and productivity in services, (with Matilda Orth) ( Ekonomisk Debatt, 2018) pdf link ( in Swedish)
Productivity Dynamics and the Role of Big-Box Entrants in Retailing, (with Matilda Orth), (SSRN pdf), Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. LXV, No. 2, pp. 397-438, 2017
A Dynamic Analysis of Entry Regulation and Productivity in Retail Trade, (with Matilda Orth) pdf (SSRN draft: 2014-10), International Journal of Industrial Organization (IJIO) , Vol. 40, May 2015, pp. 67-80) (IJIO Best Paper Award 2016)
Real Exchange Rate Adjustment In European Transition Countries, (with Richard J. Sweeney) link , Journal of Banking and Finance, 2013, Vol. 37(3), pp. 907-926
Costs of Misspecification in Break-Model Unit-Root Tests , (with Richard J. Sweeney) pdf (version: 2013-08), Applied Economics, 2014, Vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 111–118
Marknadsstruktur och dynamik i dagligvaruhandeln, (with Matilda Orth) (Ekonomisk Debatt, 2012) pdf link ( in Swedish)