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Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Simona Abis
University of Colorado System
2
Alessandra Fenizia
National Bureau of Economic Research
3
Matteo Leombroni
Boston College
4
Sebastian Kripfganz
University of Exeter
5
Laura Blattner
Stanford University
6
Audinga Baltrunaite
Stockholm University
7
Mirella Schrijvers
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
8
Sulkhan Chavleishvili
Aarhus University
9
Marco J Lombardi
Bank for International Settlements
10
Simon Evenett
University of St. Gallen

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Return of Industrial Policy in Data
IMF Working Paper|2024
75 cit.
2
Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia
American Economic Review|2024
34 cit.
3
Broken promises, competition, and capital allocation in the mutual fund industry
Journal of Financial Economics|2024
25 cit.
4
Natural disasters as macroeconomic tail risks
Journal of Econometrics|2024
11 cit.
5
Estimating Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Models with Unobserved Common Factors in <i>Stata</i>
Journal of Statistical Software|2025
7 cit.
6
Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
6 cit.
7
Women in Economics: The Role of Gendered References at Entry in the Profession
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
6 cit.
8
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD): An Analysis of the Potential Economic and Legal Impacts
SSRN Electronic Journal|2025
4 cit.
9
Regional Dependencies and Local Spillovers: Insights From Commuter Flows
Journal of Regional Science|2025
3 cit.
10
Grow, grow, grow? Stakeholder value creation by high-growth firms
Small Business Economics|2025
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Wiliiam Milberg
New School
2
Volpi Mattia
University of Parma
3
Christian K. Wolf
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4
Lukas Püttmann
Unknown
5
Sarah Mouabbi
Banque de France
6
Simona Cătălina Ștefan
Bucharest University of Economic Studies
7
Filippos Petroulakis
European Central Bank
8
Nazzareno Ruggiero
University of Salerno
9
Cindy Chung
Harvard University
10
Lavinia Stoppani
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Data and the Aggregate Economy
Journal of Economic Literature|2024
121 cit.
2
Monetary Policy and Inequality
The Journal of Economic Perspectives|2023
84 cit.
3
Local projections vs. VARs: Lessons from thousands of DGPs
Journal of Econometrics|2024
77 cit.
4
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach
American Economic Review|2023
51 cit.
5
What Can Time‐Series Regressions Tell Us About Policy Counterfactuals?
Econometrica|2023
44 cit.
6
Bank-specific factors and credit risk: evidence from Italian banks in different local markets
Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance|2022
27 cit.
7
How do dimensions of institutional quality improve Italian regional innovation system efficiency? The Knowledge production function using SFA
Journal of Evolutionary Economics|2022
21 cit.
8
Can Deficits Finance Themselves?
Econometrica|2024
21 cit.
9
What Can We Learn from Sign-Restricted VARs?
AEA Papers and Proceedings|2022
18 cit.
10
Institutional quality and public spending in Europe: A quantile regression approach
Economics and Politics|2023
17 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Luigi Zingales
National Bureau of Economic Research
2
Mark W. Watson
Princeton University
3
Thomas J. Sargent
New York University
4
Paolo Emilio Mistrulli
Bank of Italy
5
Justin Wolfers
Helen Newberry Joy Hospital
6
Lucrezia Reichlin
London Business School
7
Anthony J. Venables
University of Oxford
8
Alessandro Sembenelli
University of Turin
9
Jacques Mairesse
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique
10
Enrico Sette
Bank of Italy

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Financial Dependence and Growth
American Economic Review|1996
6.8k cit.
2
Do Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints?
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|1997
6.7k cit.
3
What Do We Know about Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data
The Journal of Finance|1995
6.7k cit.
4
The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade
Southern Economic Journal|2000
5.1k cit.
5
A Simple Estimator of Cointegrating Vectors in Higher Order Integrated Systems
Econometrica|1993
4.9k cit.
6
Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?
The Journal of Economic Perspectives|2006
3.5k cit.
7
The great reversals: the politics of financial development in the twentieth century
Journal of Financial Economics|2003
3.4k cit.
8
The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
American Economic Review|2004
3.1k cit.
9
Forecasting Using Principal Components From a Large Number of Predictors
Journal of the American Statistical Association|2002
3.1k cit.
10
Macroeconomic Forecasting Using Diffusion Indexes
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics|2002
2.6k cit.

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