Emanuele Giovanetti's areas of expertise include digital inclusion, economics of networks, crowdfunding, innovation and technology adoption, information and communication technology.
Emanuele is a REF 2021 author for the impact case study on “Influencing Innovation Policy and Practice in the Digital Telecommunications Sector”. His work focuses on the Economics of Internet, of Innovation Ecosystems and Crowdfunding. He is currently Vice Rapporteur for a Study Group of the International Telecommunication Union, the United Agency specialised on information and communication technologies.
Emanuele (PhD, MPhil Cantab, Trinity College) is Professor of Economics at ARU, Governing Body Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, and Vice-Rapporteur for the Study Group 1 of the International Telecommunications Union, Development Bureau.
His research focuses on market power on the internet, mobile internet access, ICT platforms, digital divide, crowdfunding, diffusion of mobile social networking and adoption of new technologies. He has advised governments, competition authorities and businesses in Europe, Africa and Asia on Internet access and competition economics, and has led multidisciplinary and multinational projects focusing on network competition, internet infrastructure and mobile access in developing countries.
He has published on leading academic journals including International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Environment and Planning A, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Forecasting, Review of Network Economics, Information Economics and Policy, Spatial Economic Analysis, Journal of Economic Surveys. He co-edited The Internet Revolution: A Global Perspective, published by Cambridge University Press.
Emanuele is currently working on different but interrelated areas in the economics of networks. His current research explores original datasets on mobile internet connectivity in developing countries, using them to explore empirically the presence of market power. Emanuele is also researching on the drivers of diffusion for mobile social networking and on the role of network externalities. This links to Emanuele’s research on technology adoptions and on regional asymmetries, due to uneven adoptions. Emanuele also focuses on competition policy, in particular on network industries and on vertical restraints. Emanuele is also researching the use of Social Network Theory to capture complex strategic interaction.
In the last two decades, Emanuele has been teaching at the University of Cambridge, University of Rome, University of Cape Town, University of La Tuscia, University of Verona and at ARU. His main areas of teaching have been industrial organization, microeconomics, applied econometrics and Applied Game Theory.
At ARU, he currently teaches two modules on Introductory Econometrics and Applied Econometrics, Level 5, and in the seminars, he focuses on how to use Stata for applied econometrics projects.
Other Professional Qualifications:
Llorca, M., Soroush, G., Giovannetti, E., Jamasb, T., & Davi-Arderius, D. (2024). Energy Sector Digitalisation, Green Transition and Regulatory Trade-offs (No. 5-2024). Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics.
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.
W. Bellett-Travers, D.M.B., Giovannetti, E., Partac, M. and Davies, (2022). “Futures By Design’ – integrating data science into horticultural SMEs to improve productivity” ISHS Acta Horticulturae”. XXXI International Horticultural Congress (IHC2022): International Symposium on Value Adding and Innovation Management in the Horticultural Sector, 159-164.
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
Giovannetti, E., Siciliani, P., 2020. The Impact of Data Portability on Platform Competition. Antitrust Chronicle, 2(2).
Siciliani, P., 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., Giovannetti, E., 2018. Signalling experience & reciprocity to temper asymmetric information in crowdfunding evidence from 10,000 projects. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 133, pp. 118-131.
Derbyshire, J., 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, 125, pp. 334-344.
Giovannetti, E., 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, 187, pp. 102–112.
D'Ignazio, A., Giovannetti, E., 2015. Predicting Internet Commercial Connectivity Wars: the Impact of Trust and Operators' Asymmetry. International Journal of Forecasting, 31(4), pp. 1127–1137.
Scaglione, M., Giovannetti, E., Hamoudia, M., 2015. The Diffusion of Mobile Social Networking: Exploring Adoption Externalities in Four G7 Countries. International Journal of Forecasting, 31(4), pp. 1159–1170.
Giovannetti, E., Sigloch S., 2015. An “Internet Periphery Study: Network Centrality and Clustering for Mobile Access in Bhutan. Telecommunications Policy, 39(7), pp. 608–622.
D'Ignazio, A., 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, 147-B, pp. 486–497.
Giovannetti, E. Magazzini, L. 2013. Resale Price Maintenance: An Empirical Analysis of UK Firms’ Compliance”. The Economic Journal, 123(572), pp. F582–F595.
Giovannetti, E., 2013. Catching Up, Leapfrogging or Forging ahead? Exploring the Effects of Integration and History on Spatial Technological Adoptions. Environment and Planning A. 45(4), pp. 930-946.
Bennett, M., Fletcher, A., Giovannetti, E., Stallibrass, D., 2010. Resale Price Maintenance: explaining the controversy, and small steps towards a more nuanced policy. Fordham International Law Journal, 33(4), pp.1278-1299.
Giovannetti E., Stallibrass, D., 2009. Three cases in search of a theory: Resale Price Maintenance in the UK. European Competition Journal, 5(3), pp. 641-654.
D'Ignazio A., Giovannetti, E., 2009. Asymmetry and Discrimination in Internet Peering Evidence from the LINX. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 27, pp. 441- 448.
Giovannetti, E., 2008. Peering and Roaming on the Internet: Editorial. Telecommunications Policy, 32(1), pp. 1-3.
D’Ignazio, A., Giovannetti, E., 2007. Spatial Dispersion of Peering Clusters in the European Internet. Spatial Economic Analysis, 2(3), pp. 219-236.
Giovannetti, E., Neuhoff, K., Spagnolo, G., 2007. Trust and Virtual Districts Evidence from the Milan Internet Exchange. Metroeconomica: International Review of Economics 58(3), pp. 436-456.
D’Ignazio, A., Giovannetti, E., 2006. From Exogenous to Endogenous Economic Networks: Internet Application. Journal of Economic Surveys, 20(5), pp. 757-796.
D’Ignazio, A., Giovannetti, E., 2006. Antitrust Analysis for the Internet Upstream Market: A Border Gateway Protocol Approach. Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 2(1), pp. 43-69.
Giovannetti, E., 2005. Diagonal Mergers and Foreclosure in the Internet. Review of Network Economics, 4(1), pp. 33-62.
Giovannetti, E., Ristuccia, C., 2005. Estimating Market Power in the Internet backbone, using the I.P. transit Band-X database. Telecommunications Policy, 29, pp. 269-284.
D’Ignazio, A., Giovannetti, E., 2004. Reti-Networks. Rivista di PolitcaEconomica, 94(3), pp. 259-330.
D’Ignazio, A., Giovannetti, E., 2004. Reti-Networks: Replica. Rivista di PolitcaEconomica, 94(3), pp. 341-343.
Giovannetti, E., 2002. Interconnection, differentiation and bottlenecks in the Internet. Information Economics and Policy, 14(3), pp. 385-404.
Giovannetti, E., 2001. Perpetual Leapfrogging in Bertrand Duopoly. International Economic Review, 42(3), pp. 671-696.
Giovannetti, E., 2000. Technology Adoption and the Emergence of Regional Asymmetries. Journal of Industrial Economics, 48(1), pp. 71-102.
Agliardi, E., Giovannetti, E., 1998. Morphogenesis of an Institution on a Lattice Game. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2, pp. 209-213.
Giovannetti, E., 1993. Learning, Bounded Rationality and Evolutionary Modelling in Games. Economic Notes, 22(1), pp. 49-79.
Tsuji, M., Giovanetti, E., Kagami, M., 2007, Industrial Agglomeration and New Technologies: a Global Perspective (Cheltenham: 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.
Kagami, M., Tsuji, M., Giovanetti, E.,, 2004, Information Technology Policy and the Digital Divide: Lessons for Developing Countries (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing).
Giovenatti, E., Kagami, M., Tsuji, M., 2003, The Internet Revolution: A Global Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (Republished in paperback by CUP in 2007). Trends in Communications 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.”
Giovannetti, E., 2017. Digital Divide and Digital Multiplier: A Paradigm Shift through Innovation. In Lehr, W., Sharafat, A. (eds.), 2017. ICT-Centric Economic Growth, Innovation and Job creation (Geneva: International Telecommunication Union), ISBN 978-92-61-24411-8.
Bennett, M., Fletcher, A., Giovannetti, E., Stallibrass D., 2010. Resale Price Maintenance: explaining the controversy, and small steps towards a more nuanced policy. In Hawk, B. (ed.), 2010. International Antitrust Law & Policy: Fordham Competition Law 2009. (Huntingdon, New York: Juris Publishing).
Giovannetti, E., Neuhoff, K., Spagnolo, G., 2007. Where is the Internet? Agglomeration in space and cyberspace. In Tsuji, M., Giovannetti, E., Kagami, M. (eds.), 2007. Agglomeration and New Technologies: a Global Perspective (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing).
D’Ignazio, A., Giovannetti, E., 2007. Agglomeration and Internet exchange points: an exploration of the Internet morphology. In Fingleton, B. (ed.), 2007. New Directions in Economic Geography (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing).
Giovannetti, E., 2004. Internet Upstream Connectivity and Competition Policy: Western Europe and Southern Africa. In Kagami, M., Tsuji, M., Giovannetti, E. (eds.), 2004. Information Technology Policy and the Digital Divide: Lessons for Developing Countries. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing).
Giovannetti, E., 2003. Internet Access and Regulatory Reform, The Experience of South Africa. In Giovannetti, E., Kagami, M., Tsuji, M. (eds.), 2003. The Internet Revolution: A Global Perspective (Cambridge: 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., Tsuji, M., 2003. The Internet Revolution: A Global Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
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, E., Plossky, A., Kettani, N., Hemmerlein, C., Neto, G., Martinez, J., 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.
Llorca, M., Soroush, G., Giovannetti, E., Jamasb, T., & Davi-Arderius, D. (2024). Energy Sector Digitalisation, Green Transition and Regulatory Trade-offs (No. 5-2024). Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics.
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.
W. Bellett-Travers, D.M.B., Giovannetti, E., Partac, M. and Davies, (2022). “Futures By Design’ – integrating data science into horticultural SMEs to improve productivity” ISHS Acta Horticulturae”. XXXI International Horticultural Congress (IHC2022): International Symposium on Value Adding and Innovation Management in the Horticultural Sector, 159-164.