Research Interests
Emanuele’s research focuses on estimating market power on the Internet, on mobile Internet access, crowdfunding and adoption of new technologies. Emanuele is vice rapporteur rapporteur International Telecommunication Union Study Group 1 on “ Economic policies and methods of determining the cost of services related to National Telecommunication/ICT networks” and advised governments, competition authorities and businesses in Europe, Africa and Asia on these topics. Emanuele published on leading academic journals, including the: International Economic Review, Economic Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Environment and Planning A and the International Journal of Forecasting, edited the special issue of Telecommunications Policy on “Peering and Roaming in the Internet” and co-edited the “The Internet Revolution: A Global Perspective” for Cambridge University Press.
Selected Publications
Published Papers
Giovannetti, E., & Siciliani, P., (2023), Platform Competition and Incumbency Advantage under Heterogeneous Lock-in effects, Information Economics and Policy, 101031.
Giovannetti, E., & Piga, C., (2023), The multifaceted nature of cooperation for innovation, ICT and innovative outcomes: evidence from UK Microdata, Eurasian Business Review.
Davies, W. E. and Giovannetti, E., (2022), Latent Network Capital and Gender in Crowdfunding: evidence from the Kiva platform, Technological Forecasting and Social Change; Volume 182, September 2022.
Giovannetti, E. and Hamoudia, M., (2022), The Interaction between Direct and Indirect Network Externalities in the Early Diffusion of Mobile Social Networking, Eurasian Business Review. March 2022.
Zardo, Linda, Emanuele Giovannetti, Francesco Musco, and Piercarlo Romagnoni, Analysis And Mapping of Trade-Offs Between Renewable Energy and Ecosystem Services, (2022), CORILA Editore
Giovannetti, E. and Siciliani, P., (2020), The Impact of Data Portability on Platform Competition, Antitrust Chronicle, Fall 2020, Volume 2, Number 2
Siciliani, P. and Giovannetti, E., (2019), Platform competition and incumbency advantage under heterogeneous switching cost — exploring the impact of data portability, Bank of England Research papers, 839, Bank of England.
Davies, W. E. and Giovannetti, E., (2018), Signalling experience & reciprocity to temper asymmetric information in crowdfunding evidence from 10,000 projects, Technological Forecasting and Social Change Volume 133, August 2018, Pages 118-131
Derbyshire, J. and Giovannetti, E., (2017), Understanding the failure to understand New Product Development failure: Mitigating the uncertainty associated with innovating new products by combining scenario planning and forecasting, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 125, December 2017, Pages 334-344
Giovannetti, E. and Piga, C., (2017,) The Contrasting Effects of Active and Passive Cooperation on Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from British Local Innovation Networks, International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 187, May 2017, Pages 102–112
D'Ignazio, A. and Giovannetti E., (2015,) Predicting Internet Commercial Connectivity Wars: the Impact of Trust and Operators Asymmetry, International Journal of Forecasting Volume 31, Issue 4, October–December 2015, Pages 1127–1137.
Scaglione, M. Giovannetti, E. and Hamoudia, M., (2015), The Diffusion of Mobile Social Networking: Exploring Adoption Externalities in Four G7 Countries, International Journal of Forecasting Volume 31, Issue 4, October–December 2015, Pages 1159–1170.
Giovannetti, E. and Sigloch S., (2015), An Internet Periphery Study: Network Centrality and Clustering for Mobile Access in Bhutan, Telecommunications Policy, Volume 39, Issue 7, August 2015, Pages 608–622.
D'Ignazio A. and Giovannetti E., (2014), Continental Differences in the Clusters of Integration: Empirical Evidence from the Digital Commodities Global Supply Chain Networks, International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 147-B, pp 486–497.
Giovannetti, E. and Magazzini, L., (2013), Resale Price Maintenance: An Empirical Analysis of UK Firms Compliance, The Economic Journal, Volume 123, Issue 572, pp F582–F595, November
Giovannetti, E., (2013), Catching Up, Leapfrogging or Forging ahead? Exploring the Effects of Integration and History on Spatial Technological Adoptions, Environment and Planning A. Volume 45, Issue 4, pp. 930 – 946.
Bennett M., Fletcher A., Giovannetti E. and Stallibrass D., (2010), Resale Price Maintenance: explaining the controversy, and small steps towards a more nuanced policy, Fordham International Law Journal Volume 33, Issue 4, pp.1278-1299.
Giovannetti E. and Stallibrass D., (2009), Three cases in search of a theory: Resale Price Maintenance in the UK, European Competition Journal, Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. 641-654.
D'Ignazio A. and Giovannetti E., (2009), Asymmetry and Discrimination in Internet Peering Evidence from the LINX, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol.27, pp. 441- 448.
Giovannetti, E., (2008), Peering and Roaming on the Internet: Editorial, Telecommunications Policy Volume 32 Issue 1, pp. 1-3.
D’Ignazio, A. and Giovannetti, E., (2007), Spatial Dispersion of Peering Clusters in the European Internet, Spatial Economic Analysis, Volume2, Issue 3, pp. 219 – 236.
Giovannetti, E., Neuhoff, K. and Spagnolo, G., (2007), Trust and Virtual Districts Evidence from the Milan Internet Exchange, Metroeconomica: International Review of Economics. Volume 58, Issue 3, pp. 436-456.
D’Ignazio, A. and Giovannetti, E., (2006), From Exogenous to Endogenous Economic Networks: Internet Applications, Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 20, Issue 5, pp. 757-796.
D’Ignazio, A. and Giovannetti, E., (2006), Antitrust Analysis for the Internet Upstream Market: A Border Gateway Protocol Approach, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 43-69.
Giovannetti, E., (2005), Diagonal Mergers and Foreclosure in the Internet, Review of Network Economics, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 33-62.
Giovannetti, E. and Ristuccia, C., (2005), Estimating Market Power in the Internet backbone, using the I.P. transit Band-X database, Telecommunications Policy, Volume 29, pp. 269-284.
Giovannetti, E., (2002), Interconnection, differentiation and bottlenecks in the Internet, Information Economics and Policy, Volume14, Issue 3, pp. 385-404.
Giovannetti, E., (2001), Perpetual Leapfrogging in Bertrand Duopoly, International Economic Review, Volume 42, Issue 3, pp. 671-696.
Giovannetti, E., (2000), Technology Adoption and the Emergence of Regional Asymmetries, Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 48, Issue 1, pp. 71-102.
Agliardi, E. and Giovannetti, E., (1998), Morphogenesis of an Institution on a Lattice Game, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society. Volume 2, pp. 209-213.
Giovannetti, E. (1993), "Learning, Bounded Rationality and Evolutionary Modelling in Games", Economic Notes, Vol.22-1, pp. 49-79
Books Edited
Co-editor of the Book (2007), Agglomeration and New Technologies: a Global Perspective, Edward Elgar Publishing. A review of the book by LSE Professor S. Iammarino published on the 4 ABS journal Economic Geography says “This is a valuable book. The individual chapters contain original case-study evidence and analytical insights. . . it is one that should be consulted by any scholar working in the area of industrial agglomerations and new technology.
Co-editor of the Book (2004), Information Technology Policy and the Digital Divide: Lessons for Developing Countries, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004.
Co-editor of the Book (2003), The Internet Revolution: A Global Perspective, Cambridge University Press. (Republished in paperback by CUP in 2007). Trends in Co mmunications reviewed the book writing: “this is a book to be recommended to anyone interested in a thorough description of the state of the IT revolution in the fields of business, economics, and policy.”
Books Chapters
Giovannetti, E., (2017), Digital Divide and Digital Multiplier: A Paradigm Shift through Innovation, in Lehr, W. and Sharafat, A, eds. “ICT-Centric Economic Growth, Innovation and Job creation ” International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, ISBN, 978-92-61-24411-8.
Bennett M., Fletcher A., Giovannetti E. and Stallibrass D., (2010), Resale Price Maintenance: explaining the controversy, and small steps towards a more nuanced policy, in B. Hawk ed. International Antitrust Law & Policy: Fordham Competition Law 2009, Juris Publishing, Huntigton, NY, USA.
Giovannetti, E., Neuhoff, K., and Spagnolo, G., (2007), Where is the Internet? Agglomeration in space and cyberspace, in Tsuji, M., Giovannetti, E. and Kagami, M., eds. Agglomeration and New Technologies: a Global Perspective. Edward Elgar Publishing.
D’Ignazio A. and Giovannetti, E., (2007), Agglomeration and Internet exchange points: an exploration of the Internet morphology, in Fingleton, B. ed. New Directions in Economic Geography. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Giovannetti, E., (2004), Internet Upstream Connectivity and Competition Policy: Western Europe and Southern Africa, in Kagami, M., Tsuji, M. and Giovannetti, E. eds. Information Technology Policy and the Digital Divide: Lessons for Developing Countries. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Giovannetti, E., (2003), Internet Access and Regulatory Reform, The Experience of South Africa, in Giovannetti, E., Kagami, M. and Tsuji, M. The Internet Revolution: A Global Perspective”. Cambridge University Press.
Giovannetti, E., (2003), IT Revolution, Internet and Telecommunications: the Transition towards a Competitive Industry in the European Union, in Giovannetti, E., Kagami, M. and Tsuji, M. “The Internet Revolution: A Global Perspective”. Cambridge University Press.
Government & International Organizations Research
Plossky, A., Martinez Morando, J., Giovannetti, E., Sedik, W., Munyaradzi, T., Tural Tok, G., Kaydan, U., Kone, I., Rafalimanana, N.A.G., Gonzalez-Galarreta, R., Abdulkadhim Ali, M. and Abd Alhassan Yahia, H., (2021), Economic policies and methods of determining the costs of services related to national telecommunication/ICT networks, Output Report on ITU-D Question 4/1 for the study period 2018-2021. ISBN 978-92-61-34561-7 (Electronic version), Geneva: International Telecommunication Union, 2021
Martinez Morando, J., Plossky, Giovannetti, E., A., Sedik, W.M., Munyaradzi, T., Tural Tok, G.N., Kaydan, U., Kone, I., Previlon, H., Rafalimanana, G., Gonzalez-Galarreta, R. and Abdulkadhim Ali, M., (2021), Guidelines on cost modelling: Economic policies and methods of determining the costs of services related to national telecommunication/ICT networks, ISBN 978-92-61-34681-2 (Electronic version), Geneva: International Telecommunication Union, 2021
Giovannetti, Emanuele and Plossky, Arseny and Kettani, Nasser and Hemmerlein, Christopher and Neto, Geraldo and Martinez, Jorge, (2020), Economic impact of OTTs on national telecommunication/ICT markets, Annual Deliverable, International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland.
Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority Digital Strategy Report, prepared with High Tech Network Cambridge Wireless, (2018).
Private and External Benefits from Investment in Intangible Assets, December 2014 BIS Research Paper Number 203. UK Government, Department of Business Innovation and Skills.
