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Garcia-Del-Barrio, P. and Rossi, Giambattista (2024) Objectives pursued by European football clubs: hiring talent to generate income through victories and media exposure. Managerial Finance , ISSN 0307-4358. (In Press)

Farnall, A. and Butler, D. and Rossi, Giambattista and Simmons, R. and Berri, D. and Bamba, E.Y. (2024) Is there a nationality wage premium in European football? Sports Economics Review , ISSN 2773-1618.

Pawlowski, T. and Ramirez, P. and Rambaccussing, D. and Reade, J. and Rossi, Giambattista (2024) Exploring entertainment utility from football games. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 223 , pp. 185-198. ISSN 0167‐2681.

Mura, R. and Canini, D. and Vicentini, F. and Rossi, Giambattista (2024) Are Italian football clubs embracing sustainability? Corporate Governance and Research & Development Studies 2024 (1), pp. 15-35. ISSN 2704-8462.

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.

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.

Destefanis, S. and Addesa, F. and Rossi, Giambattista (2021) Football clubs' efficiency and COVID-19 in the Big-5 European leagues. Working Paper. Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, London, UK.

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.

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? Working Paper. Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, London, UK.

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.

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.

Neri, Lorenzo and Russo, A. and Di Domizio, M. and Rossi, Giambattista (2018) Fair sales for fair play: evidence from the Italian Serie A. Working Paper. Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, London, UK.

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.

Berri, D. and Buiramo, B. and Rossi, Giambattista and Simmons, R. (2016) Pay and performance in Italian football. Working Paper. Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK.

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.

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. Working Paper. Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK.

Rossi, Giambattista and Di tanna, Gian luca and Addesa, F. (2016) Production, efficiency and corruption in Italian Serie A : a DEA analysis. Working Paper. Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK.

Rossi, Giambattista and Fumarco, L. (2015) Relative age effect on labor market outcomes for high skilled workers – evidence from soccer. Working Paper. Birkbeck Working Papers Series in Management, London, UK.

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. (2010) The governance and regulation of Italian football. Soccer & Society 11 (4), pp. 373-413. ISSN 1466-0970.

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. Working Paper. Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, London, UK.

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.