Bio

Dr. Giovanna Massarotto is an antitrust scholar whose research examines how competition law and economic regulation should adapt to digital markets and emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence. Her scholarship draws on law, economics, and computer science and incorporates comparative perspectives from the United States and Europe.

She is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she is affiliated with the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC) and the Penn Program on Regulation. She is also an Affiliated Researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) and an Affiliated Scholar at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. She received her Ph.D. from Bocconi University, where she researched and taught competition law.

Massarotto’s scholarship addresses antitrust and regulatory challenges arising from artificial intelligence, algorithmic markets, blockchain, digital platforms, and other forms of technological change. Her work has been presented at leading academic institutions and policy organizations in the United States and Europe, including Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the University of Oxford, the European University Institute, and the OECD, as well as before competition and regulatory authorities.

Her book, Antitrust Settlements: How a Simple Agreement Can Drive the Economy, examines antitrust settlements in the United States and European Union and explores how insights from law, economics, and computer science can inform the design of antitrust remedies. Her articles further examine the intersection of antitrust, regulation, and technological innovation.

Before joining Penn Carey Law, Massarotto worked in Washington, D.C., for an economic consulting firm specializing in intellectual property, economic regulation, and antitrust in the telecommunications and technology industries. She was also an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford and taught for the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business.