My research is rather eclectic as regards both objects of inquiry and methodology. I fully embrace Herbert Simon's view that:
"disciplines, like nations, are a necessary evil that enables human beings of bounded rationality to simplify their goals and reduce their choices to calculable limits [...] the world badly needs international and interdisciplinary travelers".
Telecommunications, Media&Digital Markets
This is the area of research in which I'm currently most engaged, especially through collaborations at the Center for a Digital Society @EUI
“EU technology-specific industrial policy: the case of 5G and 6G”, 2023, Telecommunications Policy, 102639, DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2023.102639.
"How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds", 2023, (with Pier Luigi Parcu, Niccolò Innocenti & Chiara Carrozza), European Planning Studies, 31:7, 1466-1488, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2023.2221323.
“The rise of e-Commerce Platforms in the Parcel Delivery Markets”, 2023, (with Pier Luigi Parcu, Niccolò Innocenti, Chiara Carrozza, and Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz) in The Postal and Delivery Contribution in Hard Times, P.L. Parcu, T.J. Brennan and V. Glass (eds), Springer.
“Innovation in 5G technology: leadership, competition, and policy issues” 2022, (with Pier Luigi Parcu and Tim Brennan), Telecommunications Policy, vol. 46(4), DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102349.
“Technology and the shifting boundaries of regulation and competition in the EU telecommunications sector”, (with Pier Luigi Parcu), 2022, in The Interaction of Competition Law and Sector Regulation: Emerging Trends at the National and EU Level, P.L. Parcu, G. Monti, M. Botta (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
“5G and the European competitiveness challenge: the case for demand-side innovation policies”, 2022, in EU Leadership in 5G and 6G: Competition, Security, and Network Architecture, E. Bohlin and F. Cappelletti (ed.), ELF Techno-economic Series, ISBN: 978-2-39067-034-6/9782390670346.
“The advent of 5G and the non-discrimination principle”, 2021, Telecommunications Policy, DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102279.
“Policy changes to strengthen the protection of media freedom and media pluralism in the EU” (with Pier Luigi Parcu), 2021, in Handbook of Media Law and Policy, E. Brogi and P.L. Parcu (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
“Platform-mediated reputation systems in the sharing economy and incentives to provide service quality: the case of ridesharing services” (with Marcello Basili), Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, volume 39, January-February 2020.
“Il ruolo delle piattaforme nell’economia dei big data”, 2017, in Valeria Falce, Gustavo Ghidini e Gustavo Olivieri (ed.), Informazione e Big Data fra Innovazione e Concorrenza, Giuffrè Editore, ISBN 978-88-14-22428-7.
“Spectrum Crunch vs. Spectrum Sharing: Exploring the ‘Authorised Shared Access’ Model” (with Antonio Nicita), 2013, Communications and Strategies, 90, pp.3-20.
“Whither Policy Design for Broadband Penetration? Evidence from 30 EU countries” (with Filippo Belloc and Antonio Nicita), 2012, Telecommunications Policy 36(5), pp.382-398.
“Access to Audio-Visual content, exclusivity and anticommons in new media markets”, 2008, (with Antonio Nicita), Communications and Strategies, n. 71(3), 79-101.
“L’accesso ai contenuti: quale approccio regolatorio?” (with Antonio Nicita), 2008, in A.Nicita, G.Ramello and F.Silva (eds.) Economia della Nuova Televisione, Bologna, Il Mulino. ISBN: 9788815124616.
“Decoding the Open Source Puzzle: A Survey of Theoretical and Empirical Contributions”, 2006, in J.Bitzer and P.Schroder (eds.), The Economics of Open Source Software Development: Analyzing Motivation, Organization, Innovation and Competition in the Open Source Software Revolution, Elsevier Press. ISBN: 0444527699, doi:10.1016/B978-044452769-1/50002-0
This is another core area of my research, developed particularly with Ugo Pagano and Massimo D'Antoni. I'm particularly interested in exploring the economic effects of IP and remedies to its pitfalls from the perspective of institutional and organizational economics.
“Come sorridere anche noi: accesso alle conoscenze, crescita economica, e riduzione delle diseguaglianze” (with Ugo Pagano), L'industria, Rivista di economia e politica industriale, 4/2019, pp. 693-717, DOI: 10.1430/95937.
Open science ed economia della conoscenza: i paradossi della crescita come obiettivo della scienza” (with Ugo Pagano), 2017, Notizie di Politeia, Anno XXXIII - N. 126
“Economía del conocimiento, crisis y depresión” (with Ugo Pagano), Revista de Economía Institucional 19, 36, 2017, pp. xx-xx. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18601/01245996.v19n33.03
“The knowledge economy, the crash and the depression” (with Ugo Pagano), 2017, in The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science, D. Tyfield, R. Lave, S. Randalls and Charles Thorpe (eds), Routledge, London.
“Corporate Governance Effects on Innovation when both Agency Costs and Asset Specificity Matter” (with Filippo Belloc and Eleonora Laurenza), 2016, Industrial and Corporate Change, 1-23, doi: 10.1093/icc/dtw009.
“Appropriability and Incentives with Complementary Innovations” (with Massimo D’Antoni), 2014, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 23(1), pp.103-124.
“Negotiated foreclosure and IPRs: recent developments” (with Pier Luigi Parcu), 2012, in Competition Law and Intellectual Property: A European Perspective, Caggiano, G., Muscolo, G. e M. Tavassi (ed.), Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn. ISBN: 9789041134479
"The Crash of the Knowledge Economy" (with Ugo Pagano), 2009, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33, 665–683.
“Patent disclosures and R&D competition in pharmaceuticals”, 2009, (with Laura Magazzini, Fabio Pammolli and Massimo Riccaboni), Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, 18(5), 467–486.
“Intellectual Property Rights, Technological Regimes and Market Dynamics”, 2005 (with Fabio Pammolli), Economia e Politica Industriale n.2/2005. ISSN: 0391-2078
“Intellectual Property Rights, Incomplete Contracts and Institutional Complementarities”, 2004 (with Ugo Pagano), European Journal of Law and Economics 18(2).
“Innovazione, Conoscenza ed Allocazione dei Diritti di Proprietà Intellettuale nelle Reti di Imprese”, 2004, in Fabrizio Cafaggi (ed.), Reti di Imprese tra Regolazione e Norme Sociali, 337-380, Il Mulino, Bologna. ISBN: 9788815142474, doi: 10.978.8815/142474.
The final core area of my research, also pursued mostly at the Center for a Digital Society @EUI
"The passing-on principle in EU private antitrust enforcement – a policy at war with itself?” (with Pier Luigi Parcu), 2021, Economic Analysis in EU Competition Policy: Recent Trends at the National and EU Level, P.L. Parcu, G. Monti, M. Botta (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
“State Aid Policy in The Broadband Sector: Public Announcements, Investments and Crowding Out” (with Pier Luigi Parcu), 2020, EU State aid law: Emerging trends at the national and EU level, P.L. Parcu, G. Monti, M. Botta (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
“The role of economics in EU private antitrust enforcement: theoretical framework, empirical methods and practical issues.”, 2018, in Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law: the Impact of the Damages Directive, P.L. Parcu, G. Monti, M. Botta (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
"The Institutional Design of European Competition Policy" (with Antonio Manganelli and Antonio Nicita), 2014, in The Manufacturing of Markets, E. Brousseau and J. M. Glachant (eds.), Cambridge University Press, London. ISBN: 9781107053717.
“Reverse Payment Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Sector: A European Perspective” (with Pier Luigi Parcu), 2011, European Journal of Risk and Regulation 2(2), 260-262. ISSN 1867-299X.
Other work that does not fit in any of the previous categories
“Brassica carinata-derived biodiesel production: economics, sustainability and policies. The Italian case” (with Marcello Basili), Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 191, 1 August 2018, pp. 40-47
“Incomplete Contracts”, 2014, in J. Backhaus (ed.) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer, Londra. ISBN 9781461477525.
“Strumenti alternativi per il finanziamento delle infrastrutture: il caso dei fondi infrastrutturali” (with Americo Todisco), 2009, in E’ possibile realizzare le infrastrutture in Italia, Giulio Napolitano e Alfredo Macchiati (ed.), Il Mulino, Bologna. ISBN: 9788815132826.