Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Current academic position
Associate Professor of Economic History since January 2019
Qualified as Full Professor of Economic History since April 2021 (Italian scientific and academic habilitation).

Past academic positions
Lecturer of Economic History (permanent position), November 2013-December 2018
Assistant Professor of Economic History (permanent position), November 2010-October 2013

Visiting
Visiting researcher, The University of Warwick, Department of Economics, 2011 (February-June)

Education
Ph.D. History and Theory of Economic Development, Luiss-Guido Carli, 2004.
Laurea in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, 2000.

Other research appointment
Fellow of the Historical Households Budget project since September 2015 (PIs Giovanni Vecchi, Brian A Hearn and Nicola Amendola)

Teaching
Economic History (undergraduate course taught in Italian), Sapienza University of Rome, 2012-2017, 2020
Economic History (graduate course taught in English) Sapienza University of Rome, 2011-2020
Business History (graduate course taught in Italian) Sapienza University of Rome, 2018-present
History of innovation (graduate course taught in Italian) Sapienza University of Rome, 2018-present
European Economic History (graduate course taught in English), Torvergata, University of Rome, a.y. 2013/2014

University, departmental and faculty duties
Member of the Academic Senate, November 2019-present
Member of the Team for the securing of quality of the Master program in Business Management, 2018-present
Member of the departmental research commission January 2019-present
Member of the University committee for the Riviste di ateneo November 2019-present
Member of the Giunta di Facoltà November 2017-January 2019
Member of the Giunta di Dipartimento November 2016- January 2019
Member of the University committee for the Chiamate dirette recruitment June 2016- January 2019
Member of the Academic Senate, November 2015- January 2019
Member of the Commission for the internal seminars (department), a.y. 2012-2013
Member of the Commission for the teaching activity (department), a.y. 2012-2016
Member of the integrated Commission for the teaching activity of the Faculty of Economics, a.y. 2013-2015.

Ph. D. Supervision
2011-2014 A. Di Ruggiero, University of Rome Tor Vergata , thesis title: Three Essays on the Macroeconomic History of Italy (currently Research Fellow in Economic History, University Magna Grecia of Catanzaro, Italy).
2016-2019 V. Mariella, Sapienza, University of Rome, thesis title: Three essays on quantitative Italian economic history.
2017- F. Fiore-Melacrinis, Sapienza, University of Rome, thesis title: TBA

Other professional activities
2016- Member of the scientific board of the European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies, Sapienza University of Rome.
2019- Member of the Governing council of the Associazione per la Storia Economica (ASE)
2020 Reviewer for FISR - PROPOSTE PROGETTUALI DI RICERCA Covid-19, Ministry of education
2020 Guest editor of the special issue on Regional Developments in Pre-unification Italy at the Rivista di Storia Economica.

Referee activity for the following Journals: The Economic History Review, Plos One, European Review of Economic History, Rivista di Storia Economica, PSL Quarterly Review, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Quaderni di storia economica-Bank of Italy

Individual Research grants and awards
2018 FFABR Grant 2017- Ministry of Education, University and Research
2014 Incentive for research and teaching activity for the year 2011 (art. 29 c.19 Law N.240/2010)
2005-2007 Research Fellowship, Sapienza University of Rome
2001-2004 Ph. D. Scholarship, Ministry of Education, University and Research

Financed Research Projects:
A) as Principal investigator
2019 Politics and local public finance in Italy: a historical perspective Sapienza University of Rome
2017 Divergenza, diseguaglianze e living standards nell'area mediterranea: una prospettiva storica, Sapienza University of Rome
2014 Military disputes and conflicts on resources, Sapienza University of Rome
2013 Food resources and market integration: war and economy in Italy, Sapienza University of Rome
2012 Culture, justice and growth: a quantitative analysis of the Italian provinces in the long run, Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Economics, Research Grants for under 40 investigator, 2012

B) as Member of the research group
2014 Youth "navigation paths" from university to the labour market: the development of a multi-method, interdisciplinary research project, Sapienza University of Rome
2012 Finance and Growth in Italy: a historical perspective, 12 months, University of Rome.
2011 Migrations in the long run: institutions, human capital, and economic development, Sapienza University of Rome
2010 Institutions, globalization and economic growth, Sapienza University of Rome.

Conferences, workshops and seminars
XIX World Economic History Congress Paris, July 25-30, 2021- Participant to the session State capacity formation and economic growth in peripheral countries (scheduled).
XIX World Economic History Congress Paris, July 25-30, 2021 Co-organizer (with Alexandra de Pleijt, Leonardo Ridolfi, and J. Weisdorf) of the session The causes and consequences of technological progress (scheduled).
Research seminar, Eternal City Economic History Workshop, Banca d'Italia, Rome 17 March 2020 (scheduled - postponed)
Memotef, 10th Research day (Giornata della ricerca), Sapienza University of Rome, 21 February 2019
Sapienza Economic History Internal Seminars, Sapienza University of Rome, 6 February 2019
8th EhTune, Workshop in Economic History, University of Siena, 22-23 November 2018.
World Economic History Congress 2018, Boston (US) 30 July-3August 2018. Co-organizer (with D. Strangio e J. Weisdorf) of the session Living standard in the Mediterranean basin: a long run view .
Politics and state finance in the peripheries of the global economy in historical perspective, UCL, London, 6-7 June 2018.
Third NYUAD-CEPR Economic History Workshop: Economic Divergence and Convergence in History Abu Dhabi 23-25 February, 2017
7th EhTune, Workshop in Economic History, University of Siena, 6 December 2017.
International workshop on Divergence and living standards in the Mediterranean basin, Rome, 13-14 October 2017. Co-organizer (with D. Strangio e J. Weisdorf).
Twelfth Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Tubingen, September 1-2, 2017.
La federazione unitaria e i rapporti con i processi di grande trasformazione del paese. Quale rappresentanza del lavoro oltre il crinale del 1969? Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, May 9, 2017.
La Società italiana e le grandi crisi economiche 1929-2016, Convegni scientifici dedicati al novantesimo dell ISTAT, Rome, 26 November 2016.
6th EhTune, Workshop in Economic History, University of Siena, 26-27 October 2016.
Elementi storico economici della statistica nella società italiana nel lungo periodo, Convegni scientifici dedicati al novantesimo dell ISTAT, Rome, 12 October 2016 .
Eleventh Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Pisa, September 4-5, 2015.
Warwick Summer Workshop in Economic Growth, Department of Economics and CAGE, University of Warwick , 7-11 July 2014.
Bocconi University, Milan, May 2014.
Valencia Frontier Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH) meeting, University of Valencia, June 13-14, 2013.
Turkish- Italian Symposium on Crisis and Challenges, Sapienza University of Rome, May 20, 2013
XVII Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade (DEGIT) Conference, September 13-14, Milan 2012.
7th Sound Economic History Workshop, 19-20 May, Tampere, Finland.
ASSA Meeting, EHA/Clio session, 6-8 January 2012, Chicago (US).
Workshop on Economic History of Globalization, K.U. Leuven, 20-21 October 2011.
Spagna e Italia dal nazionalismo economico alla globalizzazione, Rome, Sapienza University, 24-25 May 2010.
Eighth Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Geneve, September 4-5, 2009.
Intra-Universities Centre for Italian Financial History (CIRSFI), Cassino, 11 October 2008.
1st DIME scientific conference on Knowledge in space and time: economic and policy implications of the Knowledge-based economy, BETA, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, 7-9 April 2008.

Publications

Articles in economic history journals
Institutional shocks and social capital: evidence from the French domination in Italy (with M. Postigliola). Journal of Modern Italian Studies, (forthcoming).
Institutions and literacy rates: the legacy of Napoleonic reforms in Italy (with M. Postigliola), European Review of Economic History, (forthcoming)
Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: evidence from stable employment in rural areas (with J. Weisdorf), The Economic History Review, 74 (2), 449-470.
Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: New Data, New Results (with J. Weisdorf), Journal of Economic History, 80 (4), pp. 931-960, 2020
A reconstruction of the Italian provincial population (ca. 1770-1861): a new dataset (with V. Mariella and M. Postigliola), Rivista di Storia Economica, XXXVI (1), pp. 3-41, 2020
Military spending, fiscal capacity and the democracy puzzle, Explorations in Economic History, 60, pp. 41-51, 2016
Credit and growth: reconsidering Italian industrial policy during the Golden Age, European Review of Economic History, 17, pp. 431 451, 2013
The long run determinants of British capital exports, 1870-1913 (with F. Schettino), Financial History Review, 18 (1), pp. 21 -46, 2011

Articles in economics journals
Key Inventors, Teams and Firm Performance: The Italian Case (with F. Schettino and L. Spinesi), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 45, pp. 13-25, 2017
Effects of Law-Enforcement Efficiency and Duration of Trials in an Oligopolistic Competition among Fair and Unfair Firms (with M.C. Bramati and A. Palestini), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 170(2), pp. 650-669, 2016

Books
Lo sviluppo economico: un viaggio con più naufraghi che naviganti, Milano: Mondadori, 2018, (with L. Mocarelli and D. Strangio).
Sviluppo industriale e dualismo economico nella seconda metà del XX secolo, Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2008
Credito e sviluppo economico. Il caso della Calabria e della Basilicata (1956-1969), Padova: Cedam, 2006

Essays in Books and other articles
Inflation and Currency Devaluation in Italy (1971-1979) (with A. DI Ruggiero). Economia & lavoro, 54(3), 143-162.
Istituzioni e tratti culturali in Italia, in D. Strangio e F. Fauri (a cura di) La società italiana nel lungo periodo, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2018.
Il coordinamento tra imprese e sindacati negli anni settanta (with D. Strangio), in Economia & Lavoro, Dicembre 2017.
Mercato del lavoro, salari reali e standard di vita a Roma nel XVI e XVII secolo: le evidenze nella costruzione della Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano (con J. Weisdorf), in A. Di Sante e S. Turriziani, (a cura di), Quando la Fabbrica costruì San Pietro Un cantiere di lavoro, di pietà cristiana e di umanità (XVI-XIX secc.), Il Formichiere, Foligno 2016.
Italian Monetary policy in perspective: lessons learned from Italy s monetary history before the EMU (with D. Strangio), in D. Strangio and G. Sancetta (eds.), Italy in the European context. Research in Economics, Business and Environment, Palgrave-McMillan, pp. 3-27, 2015.
The Path of Economic Policies: The Great War and Italy (with D. Strangio and M.C. Bramati), in Biagini A. F. and Motta G. (eds.), The Great War: Analysis and Interpretation, London: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, pp. 395-408, 2015.
Spese militari e crescita economica dal nazionalismo alla scoppio della II Guerra mondiale, (1880-1939), in M. Teodori and R. Vaccaro (eds), Saggi in onore di Angela Maria Bocci Girelli, Milano: Franco Angeli, pp. 141-156, 2012.
L inflazione in Italia dal secondo dopoguerra all introduzione dell Euro (with A. Di Ruggiero), in J. Hernandez-Adreu and R. Vaccaro (eds), España e Italia del nacionalismo economico a la globalización, Madrid, Ediciones Delta, pp. 151-167, 2012.