STEFANO BATTILOSSI

Biography

CURRENT POSITION I am a Full Professor (internal promotion approved in November 2022) of Economic History at the Department of Social Sciences, and a researcher at the Figuerola Institute for History and Social Sciences, Universidad Carlos III Madrid.
EDUCATION AND PAST POSITIONS. I hold a BA in History (Bologna), a PhD in History (Turin) and a MSc in Finance (Carlos III Madrid). I obtained post-doctoral research grants from Fondazione Einaudi Turin and the Italian National Research Council (CNR). I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Turin (Dept. History), a Visiting Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (Business History Unit-Dept Economic History) and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (Dept. History and Civilization). In Spain, I was an invited lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Dept Economics and Business) before joining Universidad Carlos III Madrid, where I was a Visiting Professor (Dept of Economic History and Institutions, 2001-07) and an Associate Professor (Dept of Economic History and Institutions, 2007-13, and Dept of Social Sciences, 2013-22).
RESEARCH INTERESTS. I am an economic historian with a special expertise in banking & financial history and macroeconomic history. My approach combines economic theory, historical and institutional analysis, and empirical methods. My original research contributions deal with different aspects of financial history of the 19th and 20th centuries. They include the re-emergence of capital mobility and international money markets under Bretton Woods, multinational banking during the First Globalization, the role of corporate governance in the interwar crisis of Italian universal banks, the political economy of financial regulation and reforms in Southern Europe since 1945, the allocative efficiency of the Italian banking system, and the historical development of capital markets in Spain in the 20th century. Other contributions focus on the historical development of macroeconomic policies in Western Europe after 1945, with a special focus on the connection between tax capacity, fiscal policy and the regulation of the financial system.
PUBLICATIONS I published articles in Web of Science economic history journals (European Review of Economic History, The Economic History Review, Cliometrica, Financial History Review), and book chapters and co-edited volumes with top international publishers (Oxford UP, Cambridge UP, Springer, Routledge). I also published books and book chapters on Italian economic history with leading Italian publishers (Laterza, Il Mulino, Einaudi) and articles in Italian history and business history journals (Studi Storici, Italia Contemporanea, Annali di Storia dell'Impresa).
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS. Over the course of my academic career I participated in various Europe-wide research networks. I was Chair of GLOBALEURONET-Globalizing Europe Economic History Network, a European research consortium funded by the European Science Foundation (2006-10); a member of the steering committee of MACROHIST-Macroeconomics and Financial History, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network funded by the European Commission (2013-17); a researcher in the project UPIER-Uses of the Past in International Economic Relations, co-funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) and the European Commission; a promoter of the EURHISTOCK-European Historical Stock Exchanges network, in collaboration with research groups from France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK; and a member of the steering committee of EURHISFIRM-High-quality company-level historical data for Europe, a European consortium of universities and research infrastructures for historical financial data funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020 (2018-21).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES I was an editor of the Financial History Review (Cambridge Core), indexed in Web of Science-ESCI Emerging Source Citation Index, in the period 2010-2021. I acted as a referee for international journals of history, economic and business history, empirical finance and international political economy. I also reviewed book proposals for top international publishers and research projects for foreign research funding agencies. I served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the European Historical Economics Society (EHES, 2006-14), and a member of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History, Frankfurt (2007-21).
OTHER INFORMATION. At UC3M I participated in six national research projects. I hold three six-year periods of research (sexenios) positively assessed by ANECA (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación), the last one obtained in 2020. At UC3M I am a co-director of the research group H-GLACIAL (Histories of Global Latin Capitalisms). I also held a Jean Monnet Chair of the History of European Monetary and Financial Integration, funded by the European Commission (2010-14).