Ceesay Muhammed

Economist
Applied Microeconomic Theory
Auctions, Procurement, Industrial Organization
Rome, Italy

Email: muhammed.ceesay@unifi.it
Alt. Email: muhammadcsay@gmail.com
Phone: +39 3510815050
Web: muhammedceesay.com
CV: Curriculum Vitae

I graduated with a PhD in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II. My work revolves around collusion and investment incentives in auctions and procurement, competition policy, and the analysis of transport markets, with a particular focus on autonomous vehicle fleets.

Research Interests:

Auctions and auction theory
Procurement and investment incentives
Industrial organization and competition policy
Collusion and bidding rings
Transport markets and autonomous vehicle fleets

Job Market Paper:

Investments in First-Price and Second-Price Procurement Auctions
with Domenico Menicucci and Nicola Doni; under review at the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Publications:

Secret versus Public Rings in Common Value Auctions
International Journal of Economic Theory, 22: 63-90, 2026.
Asymmetric Auctions with Discretely Distributed Valuations
with Domenico Menicucci and Nicola Doni; B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 25(1): 99-118, 2025.
Collusion with Not-So-Secret Rings
Journal of Quantitative Economics, 22(2): 563-570, 2024.

Working Papers and Projects:

Congestion and the Market Structure of Fleets
with Federico Boffa and Alberto Iozzi; revise and resubmit at Case Studies on Transport Policy.
Food Fraud for Horizontally Differentiated Products.
Competing with Self-Providing Consumers.

Academic Positions:

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Florence, 2023-2025.
Senior Research Associate, CEIS Tor Vergata, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2022-2023.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2021-2022.
Visiting Position, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata, July 2025.

Education:

PhD in Economics, University of Naples Federico II, 2020.
MSc in Economics and Finance, University of Naples Federico II, 2016.
BSc in Economics, University of The Gambia, 2014.
Postgraduate Courses in Mathematics, University of Perugia, 2018.

Teaching:

Teaching Assistant, Industrial Organization, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2022-2024.
Lecturer, Advanced Macroeconomics, University of The Gambia, 2020.
Lecturer, Mathematical Economics, University of The Gambia, 2020.

Selected Awards and Training:

Full PhD Scholarship, University of Naples Federico II, 2016-2020.
Outstanding Graduate Award, University of The Gambia Student Union, 2016.
Merit Scholarship, University of Naples Federico II, 2015.
Procurement and Sourcing Certificate, Rutgers University Online, 2024.
Causal Machine Learning, University of Genoa, 2021.