Carlo Ciccarelli

Incentives, Institutions, and Industrialization: A Prelude to Modern Economic Growth

Delighted for Joel Mokyr’s Nobel! A preeminent voice in economic history and an inspiration. We had the honour to host him as the keynote at the 6th ASE meeting on incentives, institutions & industrialization.
Here is the article on the Rivista! 👇

www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1410/...

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10th ASE annual meeting - Venice

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The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach Abstract. There is a long-standing debate on the effect of Italian unification (1861) on the country’s dual development. We estimate the causal impact of u

Open Access here academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...

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A cold case (over 160 years old): The effects of unification on Italy’s North-South divide Few economic debates have lasted as long as the 160-year debate concerning the effects of Italian unification on the economies of Italy’s South and North. This column proposes a way to move the argument forward. The authors estimate the causal effects of unification on the agricultural share, literacy rates, and railway density in the South and the Centre-North using a rigorous counterfactual framework. Their findings challenge the idea that unification increased Italy’s North-South divide. In fact, neither region experienced widespread benefits from the unified state.

cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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Photo of Menton, a town on the border between France and Italy © Adobe Stock, Freesurf

River Dunajec in the Pieniny Mountains on the border of Slovakia and Poland © Adobe Stock, Laura

Douro river with Saucelle Dam on the border between Spain and Portugal © Adobe Stock, anetlanda

View over steep slopes at the Ischgl/Samnaun ski resort on the Swiss-Austrian border © Adobe Stock, Leonid Tit

More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom.

In 2025, we mark 40 years since the Schengen Agreement was signed.

This landmark event has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

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14 May 2025 - The one and only Alessandro Nuvolari, shedding light on the origins of the British Industrial Revolution for my European Economic History students at the University of Rome Tor Vergata

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Bank of Italy - No. 54 - Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno Napoleonic reforms, local administrative hierarchy, development

Forthcoming, with minor edits, in the Journal of Economic History
www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazion...

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Rivisteweb: Rivista di storia economica: 1, aprile 2025

📣📣 Ths special issue on Colonial Legacy in South Asia, guest edited by Tirthankar Roy and Maanik Nath, is now online!

🔗 www.rivisteweb.it/issn/0393-34...

#SouthAsia #ColonialLegacy #EconomicHistory #DevelopmentStudies #HealthHistory #LegalHistory #NewPublication

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doi.org/10.1016/j.ee...

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Our results question the robustness of the current theoretical consensus on the “little divergence” and suggest an alternative hypothesis: north-western Europe saw faster Smithian growth than the rest of Europe after 1500."

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..the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Spain and Sweden, with Groth and Persson’s (2016) general equilibrium model.

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Abstract (1/3) "To address growing concerns on the representativeness of real wages, we generate new estimates of GDP pc in pre-industrial England and Italy, as well as new exploratory estimates for Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, ...

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...little moments of academic bliss...

"..Thank you for submitting your manuscript to Explorations in Economic History. I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication"

"Smithian growth in the little divergence: a general equilibrium analysis" (with D. Chilosi)

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The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach Abstract. There is a long-standing debate on the effect of Italian unification (1861) on the country’s dual development. We estimate the causal impact of u

New advanced article:

The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach

By G. Barone, D. Chilosi, C. Ciccarelli (@carciccar.bsky.social) and G. de Blasio.

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

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Well done Rome.

This event about “publicly defending Europe” was, by the way, ignited by an op-ed of Michele Serra, an established journalist of Repubblica. Healthy journalism matters.

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Zelenskyy’s humiliation in the White House Ukraine’s president finds himself squeezed between two big powers

Don't think it was Zelenskyy who was humiliated yesterday. Humiliation is something you can do to yourself. Don't think it was Ukraine that was humiliated either.

www.ft.com/content/6755...

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Who will be the first to write the history of that short-lived period that began in 1989 and ended in 2025? So much hope and opportunity, so much short-sighted and incompetent leadership on all sides, and such an ugly, tragic ending.

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The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach Abstract. There is a long-standing debate on the effect of Italian unification (1861) on the country’s dual development. We estimate the causal impact of u

ITALY: ....Our findings suggest that over the 50 years following the birth of the unified state, neither area drew generalized benefits from unification.....

academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...

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CfP: RSE/IREH Fast Track Review The Rivista di Storia Economica / Italian Review of Economic History (RSE/IREH) aims to promote fresh research on economic history covering a wide range of countries, periods, and methods. To this aim...

www.associazionestoriaeconomica.com/post/cfp-rse...

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2024 Rome Workshop on Transport and History Pushing the Frontiers of Data, Measurement, and Outcomes will be held at the Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome Tor Vergata

DEF Tor Vergata Rome - Sant'Anna Pisa

"2024 Rome Workshop on Transport and History - Pushing the Frontiers of Data, Measurement, and Outcomes"

December 19, 20 - 2024 Tor Vergata Rome

economia.uniroma2.it/cal/2381/202...

Special issue EREH - Deadline 1 March 2025
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Dan Bogart "Global Transport History" next Mon 2-5PM, Tue 10AM-1PM, Wed 2-5PM. A course for our PhD students at Rome Tor Vergata. Email me to get the link and follow online.

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The UniCredit Foundation (unicreditgroup.eu) has just launched new contests for research grants:

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Replication Files - The effects of Italy’s unification on its dual development: a synthetic control approach The files (Stata 18) allow the replication of the results presented in Barone, G., Chilosi, D., Ciccarelli, C., de Blasio, G. (2024), The effects of Italy’s unification on its dual development: a synt...

The effects of Italy’s unification on its dual development: a synthetic control approach data.mendeley.com/datasets/hky... - European Review of Economic History

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