Research Interests for Gianni Toniolo

Research Interests: Economic History

European economic development from 1800 to the present. Post-Unification Italy. The history of money, banking, financial markets and institutions. Central banking.

Keywords:
Europe 1800-2000, Italy 1800-2000, Central banking, Financial institutions
Current projects:
A benevolent Industrial Revolution? Industrializing during the "first globalization"
The gold standard in the periphery: commit or shadow?
Areas of Interest:

European economic growth 1800 - present
History of money, banking and financial markets.
International monetary cooperation
Welfare and income distribution 1800s to present

Representative Publications
  1. The Global Economy in the 1990s. A Long-run Perspective, edited by G. Toniolo and P. Rhode (2006), Cambridge University Press
  2. G. Toniolo, Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements (2005), Cambridge University Press, New York
  3. The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present, edited by G. Toniolo with C. L. Holtfrerich and J. Reis (1999), Ashgate, Aldershot
  4. G. Toniolo, C. Feinstein, P. Temin, The European Economy Between the Wars (1997), Oxford University Press
  5. G. Toniolo, N. Crafts, Economic Growth in Europe Since 1945 (1996), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  6. G. Toniolo, R.E.Sylla, Patterns of European Industrialization: the Nineteenth Century (1991), Routledge, London
  7. G. Toniolo, An Economic History of Liberal Italy, 1850-1918 (1990), Routledge
  8. G. Toniolo, Central Banks' Independence in Historical Perspective (1988), De Gruyter, Berlin
  9. G. Toniolo, L. Conte, G. Vecchi, “Monetary Union, institutions and financial market integration: Italy 1862 – 1905”,, Explorations in Economic History, vol. 40 (2003), pp. 443-461
  10. G. Toniolo, N. Rossi, G. Vecchi, "Is the Kuznets Curve Still Alive? Evidence from Italian Household Budgets, 1881-1961", The Journal of Economic History, vol. 61 no. 4 (December, 2001), pp. 904-925
  11. G. Toniolo with A. Boltho, "The Assessment: The Twentieth Century - Achievements, Failures, Lessons", Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. XV no. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 1-17
  12. G. Toniolo, Europe’s golden age, 1950-73: speculations from a long-run perspective, The Economic History Review, vol. LI no. 2 (1998), pp. 252-267
  13. G. Toniolo, N.Rossi, Catching-up or falling behind? Italy's economic growth 1895-1947, The Economic History Review, vol. XLV (1992), pp. 537-63
  14. G. Toniolo, R.Faini, Reconsidering Japanese Deflation during the 1920s, in Explorations in Economic History, vol. XXIX (1992), pp. 121-143
  15. G. Toniolo, R.Faini, Deflation Reconsidered: Japan in the 1920, European Economic Review, vol. XXXIV (1990), pp. 616-23
  16. G. Toniolo, P. L. Ciocca, Industry and Finance in Italy 1918-1940, The Journal of European Economic History, vol. XIII (1984), pp. 113-36
  17. G. Toniolo, P. Costa e B. Dolcetta, The New Scale of the City, Architectural Review, vol. CXLIX no. 891 (May, 1981), pp. 310-12