In the past couple of years, I’ve been working on mobile connectivity technologies (5G and 6G) and their market and regulatory implications. I’ve Guest-edited with Pier Luigi Parcu and Tim Brennan a Special Issue of Telecommunications Policy on “Innovation in 5G technology: leadership, competition and policy issues”. In this connection, I'm currently working on broader innovation policy issues related to the "digital transformation" of the economy and on the measurement of the impact of the digital transformation in Europe. 

Technology and competition are also the two keywords of another current project: I'm co-editing (with Pier Luigi Parcu and Marco Botta @CDS) a RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON COMPETITION AND TECHNOLOGY for Edward Elgar Publishing. 

I’ve also recently gone back to my long-term interest in patents, this time with a focus on standards, which have very important peculiarities. In this area, I’m now finalizing work with Pier Luigi Parcu and David Silei on the application of the logic of contingent contracts to SEPs licensing, which has important practical applications for the licensing of IoT.

Another enduring interest I’m building upon these days is media, whose analysis is now more intertwined than ever with that of digital markets. On this topic, I’ve recently worked in the context of the EU-funded project Study on media plurality and diversity online (CNECT/2020/OP/0099) on the impact of alternative policy options on media plurality. Next on the agenda is work on aspects of the political impact of media with my colleagues Alina Veraschagina and Debora Di Gioacchino.

@UDA, I will shortly start work on the labor impact of automation with my colleague Massimo Del Gatto in the context of the PRIN project AUTOmation, PROductivity and Wage INequality (AUTOPROWIN): Firms and Workers in Times of Economic Turmoil

A line of research that I intend to pursue much more intensely in the near future concerns the application of the theoretical framework for the analysis of complementary innovation developed with Massimo D’Antoni to a set of new issues.

Finally, I’m finalizing work (joint with Martina Cioni) on pluralism in economics education

Research Project "Study on media plurality and diversity online", funded by the European Commission (CNECT/2020/OP/0099)

Research Project PRIN 2017 “Lost highway: skills, technology and trade in Italian economic growth, 1815-2018”.

Research Project “The future of Broadband Policy, part 2: Technological Neutrality, Path Dependency and Public Financing”, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute in 2017

Research Project “The Future of Broadband Policy: Public Targets and Private Investments”, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute in 2015

Research Project “Broadband Drivers and Policies”, commissioned by the Independent Regulators Group (IRG) in 2011

Research Project “Infrastrutture e Servizi a Banda Larga e Ultra Larga (ISBUL)” (sub-project “Governance di Sistema”), commissioned by the Italian Communications NRA in 2009

Research Project “Fair Competition Development in the Financial Sector of the Russian Federation through Reduced Participation of Federal and Regional State Authorities in the Capital of Financial Institutions”, within the Twinning Project Italy-Russia coordinated by the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Economics and Finance in 2007

Research Project RefGov - Reflexive Governance in The Public Interest - VI Framework Programme

Research Project “Linking Regions and Central Governments: Contracts for Regional Development”, commissioned by the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate in 2006.

Research Project PRIN 2005-2007 - Vantaggio Istituzionale Comparato, Proprietà Intellettuale e Globalizzazione dei Mercati

Research Project PRIN 2002-2004 - Il governo della proprietà intellettuale: incompletezza contrattuale, complementarietà istituzionale e politiche alternative dell'innovazione e dello sviluppo