Emanuele Giovannetti

Full Professor in Economics and Deputy Director of the Institute for International Management Practice, Anglia Ruskin University

Before joining Anglia Ruskin University, Emanuele was Economic Advisor for the Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading, where he drafted the UK contribution to the revision of the EU vertical agreement regulations. He was also Associate Professor in Economics, University of Cape Town and University of Verona. Emanuele also worked for seven years at the University of Cambridge. When he left he was Senior Research Associate and Project Coordinator of the EU-IST FP7 CoCombine project on the economics of the Internet. Emanuele also lectured in Economics at Churchill College and Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Research interests
Diffusion of ICT
Digital Divide
Internet market structure
Economics of Networks
Regional Asymmetries
Economic geography
R&D and Spillovers
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.

Areas of research supervision
Technological Forecasting

Economics of Networks

R&D Spillovers and Innovation

Social Network Analysis

Digital Divide and access to the Internet

Teaching
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 Anglia Ruskin University. His main areas of teaching are: Industrial Organization, Microeconomics, Business Economics and Applied Game Theory.