Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade · 2026
The Border Effect on Prices: The Role of Local Product Availability
Fernando Borraz and Leandro Zipitría.
Leandro Zipitria
Economist specializing in industrial organization and applied microeconomics, with research and applied work in pricing, competition, and regulation.
Economist
Industrial Organization& Applied Microeconomics
Full Professor of Economics at Universidad de la República. Research on retail pricing, price dispersion, competition, and economic regulation.
Applied work in competition policy, economic regulation, and market analysis.
ResearchIndustrial organization and applied microeconomics
Policy & AdvisoryCompetition, regulation & market analysis
TeachingGraduate and undergraduate economics
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Research
Selected work
Three selected publications in industrial organization and retail markets.
AEJ: Economic Policy · 2024
Local Retail Prices, Product Varieties and Neighborhood Change
Fernando Borraz, Felipe Carozzi, Nicolás González-Pampillón, and Leandro Zipitría.
International Economics · 2022
Varieties as a Source of Law of One Price Deviation
Fernando Borraz and Leandro Zipitría.
Work
Research, policy, teaching — and tools.
Research
Industrial organization and applied microeconomics, with a focus on retail pricing, price dispersion, and market structure.
Policy & Advisory
Competition policy, economic regulation, market analysis, pricing, and regulatory impact.
Teaching
Current graduate courses in Development Economics, Microeconomics II, and Economic Regulation & Competition Policy, plus a teaching archive.
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Writing & public discussion
Economics beyond papers.
I write occasionally about economic policy and institutions, and publish longer-form commentary in Mercados Chicos.
“An image is worth a thousand words.” I also co-created unaimagen, a side project focused on visualizing data from Uruguay.