Dr. Giambattista Rossi
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr Giambattista Rossi joined the Department of Management, Birkbeck College, as a Lecturer in Management in September 2014, where he is responsible for a course module on sport labour markets.
Previously, he studied for his undergraduate degree in economics at the Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan before completing an MSc in Sport Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He was awarded his PhD in Management at Birkbeck College, University of London, where his research focused on the economic value of professional football players.
From 2012 to 2014 he held the position of Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at the University of East London (UEL) where he was also director of the postgraduate programme in sport management.
Giambattista’s main research interest is in the area of labour markets in professional sport. In particular, he investigates the role of sport agents, third party ownership in football, athletes’ remuneration and their economic value, team performance and individual athletes’ contract duration. He has been involved in a number of research projects looking at football players’ transfer market and third party ownership in football.
In 2011, he was funded with the Joao Havelange Research Scholarship awarded by the CIES (International Centre of Sport Studies) to research the activity of football player agents within the top five European football leagues.
In 2013, Giambattista was awarded the Twitter Research Grant. In collaboration with Dr James Reade, University of Reading and Dr Dorruj Rambaccussing, University of Dundee, he used Twitter’s information to forecast the results of sport events in different sports.
He has published a number of academic articles within the areas of economics and management using sport as the main field of investigation.
Qualifications
- Phd, University of London
- MSc in Sport Studies, Stirling University
- BSc in Economics and Commerce, Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Sport Labour Markets (BUMN110H7)
- Sport Labour Markets (BUMN110H7)
- Football Analytics (BUMN130H7)
- Football Analytics (BUMN130H7)
- Football Management and Finance (BUMN188H7)
- Football Management and Finance (BUMN188H7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Fumarco, L. and Longley, N. and Palermo, A. and Rossi, Giambattista (2024) Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions: evidence from the National Hockey League. Oxford Economic Papers ISSN 0030-7653. (In Press)
- Simmons, R. and Berri, D. and Butler, D. and Rossi, Giambattista and Tordoff, C. (2023) Salary determination in professional football: empirical evidence from goalkeepers. European Sport Management Quarterly ISSN 1618-4742.
- Neri, Lorenzo and Rossi, Giambattista (2023) Football players and asset manipulation: the management of football transfers in Italian Serie A. European Sport Management Quarterly 23 (4), pp. 942-962. ISSN 1618-4742.
- Addesa, Francesco and Rossi, Giambattista and Pazzona, M. (2022) Migrant diversity and team performance in a highly-skilled labour market. Kyklos: International Review For Social Science 75 (3), pp. 365-384. ISSN 0023-5962.
- Ozdemir, A. and Helmut, D. and Rossi, Giambattista and Simmons, R. (2022) Are workers rewarded for inconsistent performance?. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 61 (2), pp. 137-151. ISSN 1468-232X.
- De Stefanis, S. and Addesa, F. and Rossi, Giambattista (2022) The impact of COVID-19 on home advantage: a conditional order-m analysis of football clubs' efficiency in the top-5 European leagues. Applied Economics 54 (58), pp. 6639-6655. ISSN 0003-6846.
- Garcia-del-Barrio, P. and Rossi, Giambattista (2020) How the UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations affect football clubs’ priorities and leagues’ competitive balance?. European Journal of Government and Economics 9 (2), pp. 119-142. ISSN 2254-7088.
- Rossi, Giambattista and Goossens, D. and Di tanna, Gian Luca and Addesa, Francesco (2019) Football team performance efficiency and effectiveness in a corruptive context: the Calciopoli case. European Sport Management Quarterly 19 (5), pp. 583-604. ISSN 1618-4742.
- Brown, A. and Rambaccussing, D. and Reade, J. and Rossi, Giambattista (2018) Forecasting with social media: evidence from tweets on soccer matches. Economic Inquiry 56 (3), pp. 1748-1763. ISSN 0095-2583.
- Fumarco, L. and Rossi, Giambattista (2018) The relative age effect on labour market outcomes – evidence from Italian football. European Sport Management Quarterly 18 (4), pp. 501-516. ISSN 1618-4742.
- Fumarco, L. and Gibbs, B.G. and Jarvis, J.A. and Rossi, Giambattista (2017) The relative age effect reversal among the National Hockey League elite. PLoS One ISSN 1932-6203.
- Carmichael, F. and Rossi, Giambattista and Thomas, D. (2017) Production, efficiency, and corruption in Italian Serie A football. Journal of Sports Economics 18 (1), pp. 34-57. ISSN 1527-0025.
- Bryson, A. and Rossi, Giambattista and Simmons, R. (2014) The Migrant Wage Premium in Professional Football: A Superstar Effect?. Kyklos: International Review For Social Science 67 (1), pp. 12-28. ISSN 0023-5962.
- Barros, C. and Rossi, Giambattista (2014) A Bayesian stochastic frontier of Italian football. Applied Economics 46 (20), pp. 2398-2407. ISSN 0003-6846.
- Hamil, Sean and Morrow, S. and Idle, C. and Rossi, Giambattista and Faccendini, S. Hassan, D. and Hamil, Sean, eds. (2010) The governance and regulation of Italian football. Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives. Soccer & Society 11 (4), pp. 373-413. ISSN 1466-0970. ISBN 9780415445702.
Book
- Rossi, Giambattista and Semens, A. and Brocard, J.F. (2016) Sports agents and labour markets: evidence from world football. Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138015227.
Book Section
- Giambattista, Rossi (2018) Agents and intermediaries. In: Chadwick, S. and Parnell, D. and Widdop, P. and Anagnostopoulos, C. (eds.) Handbook of Football Business and Management. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 131-143. ISBN 9781138579071.
- Lago, U. and Rossi, Giambattista (2004) Il processo di determinazione del salario di un calciatore professionista. In: Lago, U. and Baronchelli, A. and Szymanski, S. (eds.) Il Business del Calcio. Milano, Italy: Egea.
Monograph
- Destefanis, S. and Addesa, F. and Rossi, Giambattista (2021) Football clubs' efficiency and COVID-19 in the Big-5 European leagues. London, UK: Birkbeck Sport Business Centre.
- Garcia-del-Barrio, P. and Rossi, Giambattista (2019) Winners in the field versus winners in the media. Do clubs’ owners maximise wins, revenues or visibility?. London, UK: Birkbeck Sport Business Centre.
- Neri, Lorenzo and Russo, A. and Di Domizio, M. and Rossi, Giambattista (2018) Fair sales for fair play: evidence from the Italian Serie A. London, UK: Birkbeck Sport Business Centre.
- Berri, D. and Buiramo, B. and Rossi, Giambattista and Simmons, R. (2016) Pay and performance in Italian football. London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.
- Brown, A. and Rambaccussing, D. and Reade, J.J. and Rossi, Giambattista (2016) Using social media to identify market inefficiencies: evidence from Twitter and Betfair. London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.
- Rossi, Giambattista and Di tanna, Gian luca and Addesa, F. (2016) Production, efficiency and corruption in Italian Serie A : a DEA analysis. London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.
- Rossi, Giambattista and Fumarco, L. (2015) Relative age effect on labor market outcomes for high skilled workers – evidence from soccer. London, UK: Birkbeck Working Papers Series in Management.
- Walters, Geoff and Rossi, Giambattista (2009) Labour market migration in European football: key issues and challenges. Conference proceedings from the feet-drain conference hosted by the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre in May 2008. London, UK: Birkbeck Sport Business Centre.