MAURO ROTA

Current Academic Position
Full Professor of Economic History, Faculty of Economics, Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance (MEMOTEF), Sapienza University of Rome
Previous Academic Positions
Associate Professor of Economic History, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome (January 2019 - March 2022)
Researcher in Economic History, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome (November 2010 - December 2018)
Education
Ph.D. in History and Theory of Economic Development, LUISS-Guido Carli, 2004
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, 2000
Visiting
Visiting Researcher, University of Warwick, Department of Economics, 2011 (February - June)
Other Research Roles
Fellow, Historical Households Budget Project, University of Tor Vergata (PIs: Giovanni Vecchi, Brian A’Hearn, and Nicola Amendola)
Main Managerial and Professional Roles
• November 2019 - March 2022: Member of the Academic Senate, Sapienza University of Rome
• November 2015 - January 2019: Member of the Academic Senate, Sapienza University of Rome
• December 2018 - November 2022: Member of the Coordinating Committee for the Agreement between the Public Finance Observatory at the Italian Senate and the MEMOTEF Department for monitoring public finance indicators and drafting related reports
• November 2019 - March 2022: Member of the University Senate-Council Committee for “University Journals”
• November 2015 - January 2019: Member of the University Senate-Council Committee for “Direct Hiring Proposal (Chiamate dirette)”
• December 2017 - January 2019: Member of the University Committee for drafting the regulation on salary increments and rewards
Additional Managerial and Professional Roles
• 2019 - Present: Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Association for Economic History (ASE)
• 2022 - Present: Treasurer of the Italian Association for Economic History (ASE)
• 2019 - Present: Member of the MEMOTEF Department’s Research Committee
• 2024 Reviewer for funding projects - Croatian Science Foundation
• 2020 Reviewer for funding projects, FISR - Research Project Proposals for COVID-19, Ministry of Universities and Research
• 2018 - 2019: Member of the Quality Team for the Master’s Program in Business Management
• 2017 - 2019: Member of the Faculty of Economics Council
• 2016 - 2019: Member of the Department Council
• 2012 - 2016: Member of the Department Teaching Committee
• 2012 - 2013: Member of the Department “Seminar Committee”
• 2013 - 2015: Member of the Joint Faculty-Student Committee, Faculty of Economics
• 2016 - 2022: Member of the Scientific Committee of the European PhD in “Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies,” Sapienza University of Rome
Peer-Reviewing Activities for the following journals: The Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, The Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, Rivista di Storia Economica, Plos One, PSL Quarterly Review, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Quaderni di Storia Economica-Bank of Italy, Continuity and Change
Teaching activities (undergraduate and graduate)
• Academic year 2011-12
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma
European Economic History, (Laurea Magistrale in lingua inglese), Sapienza Università di Roma
• Academic year 2012-13
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma
• Academic year 2013-14
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma (Sede di Latina)
European Economic History, (Laurea Magistrale in lingua inglese), Sapienza Università di Roma
• Academic year 2014-15
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma (Sede di Latina)
European Economic History, (Laurea Magistrale in lingua inglese), Sapienza Università di Roma
European Economic History, (Laurea Magistrale in lingua inglese), Università di Roma Tor Vergata
• Academic year 2015-16
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma (Sede di Latina)
History of Economic Institutions, (Laurea Magistrale in lingua inglese), Sapienza Università di Roma
• Academic year 2016-17
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma (Sede di Latina)
• Academic year 2017-18
Economic History (Laurea Magistrale in lingua inglese), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia d’Impresa (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
• Academic year 2018-19
Storia d’Impresa (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia dell’Innovazione (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Economic History (Laurea Magistrale in lingua inglese), Sapienza Università di Roma
• Academic year 2019-20
Storia d’impresa (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia dell’Innovazione (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Economic History (Laurea Magistrale in lingua inglese), Sapienza Università di Roma
• Academic year 2020-21
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia d’impresa (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia dell’Innovazione (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
• Academic year 2021-22
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia ed evoluzione dei modelli d’impresa (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia dell’Innovazione (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
• Academic year 2022-23
Storia ed evoluzione dei modelli d’impresa (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia dell’Innovazione (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma (Sede di Latina)
• Academic year 2023-24
Storia ed evoluzione dei modelli d’impresa (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia dell’Innovazione (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma (Sede di Latina)
• Academic year 2024-25
Storia ed evoluzione dei modelli d’impresa (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia dell’Innovazione (Laurea Magistrale), Sapienza Università di Roma
Storia Economica (Laurea Triennale), Sapienza Università di Roma (Sede di Latina)

Teaching activities Ph.D. level
• Invited lecture on Public health reforms and the mortality decline in 19th century Italy at the Vilfredo Pareto Doctoral Program in Economics, University of Turin, a.y. 2023-24
• Topics in economic history at European Phd in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, a.y. 2021-22 and a.y. 2022-23

Ph. D. Supervision
2011-2014 A. Di Ruggiero, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, thesis title: “ Three Essays on the Macroeconomic History of Italy” (currently Post-doc in Economic History, Università Magna Grecia di Catanzaro).
2016-2019 V. Mariella, Sapienza, University of Rome, thesis title: Three essays on quantitative Italian economic history (currently Post-doc in Economics, Università di Bergamo) 2017-2021 F. Fiore-Melacrinis, Sapienza, University of Rome, thesis title: Explorations in the Italian Little Divergence Before Unification: Wages and Prices in the South of Italy from 1800 to 1860 (currently Post-doc in Economic History, Università L. Bocconi).

Individual research grants
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

Research grants
A) As Principal Investigator
2023 State intervention and public health: a European perspective, Sapienza University of Rome
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 unit
2020 Economic development in Italy from the Middle Ages to today: a regional perspective, Bando Prin 2020
2020 The regional winners and losers of Italy's unification, Sapienza University of Rome
2018 The impact of Innovation related information on stock market returns: evidence from Eurostoxx 600 non-financial firms, Sapienza University of Rome
2016 Finanziare il debito in Europa: dal gold standard all’euro, Sapienza University of Rome
2013 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.

Organization of National and International Conferences and Workshops
• International workshop “The causes and consequence of technological progress”, Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Economics, Sala delle Lauree, 21-22 April 2023
• XIX World Economic History Congress – Paris, July 25-30, 2022 Co-organizer (with Alexandra de Pleijt, Leonardo Ridolfi, and J. Weisdorf) of the session “The causes and consequences of technological progress” (July 25-29, 2022).
• XVIII 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”.
• International workshop “ Divergence and living standards in the Mediterranean basin”, Rome, 13-14 October 2017. Co-organizer (with D. Strangio e J. Weisdorf).

Talks in National and International Conferences and Workshops
• European Historical Economics Society Conference, 1 & 2 September 2023, Vienna, Austria.
• XIX World Economic History Congress – Paris, - Participant to the session “State capacity formation and economic growth in peripheral countries” (July 25-29, 2022).
• European Historical Economics Society Conference, 17 & 18 June 2022, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• University of Manchester, Department of Economics, Invited speaker, 25 November 2021.
• Memotef, 10th Research day (Giornata della ricerca), Sapienza University of Rome, 21 February 2019
• 8th EhTune, Workshop in Economic History, University of Siena, 22-23 November 2018.
• 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, 2018
• 7th EhTune, Workshop in Economic History, University of Siena, 6 December 2017.
• 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.
• Economic History Seminars, 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

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

Articles in internazional journals
• Economic growth before the Industrial Revolution: Rural production and guilds in the European Little Divergence. Economic Modelling, 130, 106590, (con L. Spinesi), 2024.
• Reinvestment as an aspect of new business model in European knowledge-intensive firms (with Solimene, S., Coluccia, D., Fontana, S.). International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, 14(2), 99-117, 2022.
• Institutional shocks and social capital: evidence from the French domination in Italy (with M. Postigliola). Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 26 (3), 237-260, 2021
• Institutions and literacy rates: the legacy of Napoleonic reforms in Italy (with M. Postigliola), European Review of Economic History, 25(4), 757-779, 2021.
• 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), pp. 449-470, 2021.
• 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
• 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.
• Military spending, fiscal capacity and the democracy puzzle, Explorations in Economic History, 60, pp. 41-51, 2016
• 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.
• 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.

Other scientific publications (other articles and chapters in books)
• Dalla macchina a vapore ai robot. Come la tecnologia ha stravolto il mondo, in F. Compagnucci, A. Gentili, E. Valentini, Quarta rivoluzione industriale e cambiamento strutturale. Problematiche e prospettive per l'economia (with A. Gentili e M. Postigliola), Carocci, Roma, 2022.
• Inflation and Currency Devaluation in Italy (1971-1979) (with A. Di Ruggiero). Economia & Lavoro, 54 (3), pp. 143-162, 2020
• Il coordinamento tra imprese e sindacati negli anni settanta (with D. Strangio), in Economia & Lavoro,, Dicembre 2017.
• 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.
• 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 (with 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.