Luca Maini is an assistant professor of economics in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and a research fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. His research focuses on competition in pharmaceutical markets, with an emphasis on the interaction between government regulation and firm strategy. Maini received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and his B.A. in economics and B.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago.