Stefano Battilossi

Founding member, Internal Board

Stefano Battilossi (PhD Turin) is a Full Professor of Economic History at the Department of Social Sciences, University Carlos III Madrid. He held post-doctoral research positions at the University of Turin, the LSE and the European University Institute, where he was a Jean Monnet Fellow. He moved to Spain in 2001 as an invited lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, before joining Universidad Carlos III Madrid as a Visiting and then Associate Professor.

Stefano has a special expertise in financial and macroeconomic history. His approach combines economic theory, historical and institutional analysis, and empirical methods. His research deals with different aspects of Europe’ economic history in the 20th century, such as the development of the Eurodollar money market in London and other European financial centers, the global expansion of European banks, the historical development of macroeconomic policies, the political economy of financial regulation and liberalization and the impact of the EU in financial reforms and macroeconomic policy coordination. He published articles in leading economic and business history journals (European Review of Economic History, The Economic History Review, Cliometrica, Financial History Review, Enterprise & Society), and book chapters and co-edited volumes with top international publishers (Oxford UP, Cambridge UP, Springer, Routledge).

Stefano is the coordinator and main lecturer of a course on the History of European Economic Integration, taught in Spanish and English for 3rd and 4th year undergrad students in Economics. In 2010-13 he held a Jean Monnet Chair on “European monetary and financial integration: past and present”, funded by the EACEA. Stefano was also Chair of GLOBALEURONET-Globalizing Europe Economic History Network, a European research consortium funded by the European Science Foundation. He also participated as local PI in various projects funded by the European Commission: MACROHIST-Macroeconomics and Financial History, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network; UPIER-Uses of the Past in International Economic Relations, co-funded by HERA; and EURHISFIRM-High-quality company-level historical data for Europe, a European consortium of universities and research infrastructures for historical data. He was also the academic coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Economic Development and Growth-MEDEG, funded by the EACEA and jointly organized by University Carlos III Madrid, University of Warwick and University of Lund.