Gianni Toniolo
| Title: | Research Professor |
| Office Location: | 305 Social Sciences |
| Office Phone: | (919) 660-1855 |
| Email Address: | giannit@econ.duke.edu |
Education
- PhD University of Venice, Italy, 1966
Research Interests
Professor Toniolo specializes in the field of economic history. He is also interested in exploring European economic growth from the 1800s to the present, international monetary cooperation, and distribution of welfare and income over the last two centuries. His latest projects include the titles, “A Benevolent Industrial Revolution?” and “The Gold Standard: Commit or Shadow?” Other titles of his more recent published papers are, “The Global Economy in the 1990s. A Long-run Perspective” with P. Rhode; “Central Banking Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements;” “The European Economy Between the Wars” with C. Feinstein and P. Temin; and others. He has also written several books on similar subjects, including Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, Patterns of European Industrialization: the Nineteenth Century with R. E. Sylla, The Global Economy in the 1990s, A Long-run Perspective, and The European Economy Between the Wars with C. Feinstein and P. Temin. Professor Toniolo is currently continuing his research on the study of industrialization during the “first globalization,” European economic development from 1800-present, post-unification Italy, and the general history of money, central banking, and financial markets and institutions.
Current Projects
A benevolent Industrial Revolution? Industrializing during the "first globalization", The gold standard in the periphery: commit or shadow?
Teaching (Fall 2009):
- ECON 291.01, EUROPEAN ECONOMIC HISTORY
- Social Sciences 124, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- ECON 395.01, SPECIAL TOPICS
- Social Sciences 124, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
Representative Publications
Books- G. Toniolo and P. Rhode ed., The Global Economy in the 1990s. A Long-run Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
- G. Toniolo, Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005).
- G. Toniolo with C. L. Holtfrerich and J. Reis ed., The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present (Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999).
- G. Toniolo, C. Feinstein, P. Temin, The European Economy Between the Wars (Oxford University Press, 1997).
- G. Toniolo, N. Crafts, Economic Growth in Europe Since 1945 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996).
- G. Toniolo, R.E.Sylla, Patterns of European Industrialization: the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, London, 1991).
- G. Toniolo, An Economic History of Liberal Italy, 1850-1918 (Routledge, 1990).
- G. Toniolo, Central Banks' Independence in Historical Perspective (De Gruyter, Berlin, 1988).
- G. Toniolo, L. Conte, G. Vecchi. "“Monetary Union, institutions and financial market integration: Italy 1862 – 1905”,." Explorations in Economic History 40 (2003): 443-461.
- G. Toniolo, N. Rossi, G. Vecchi. ""Is the Kuznets Curve Still Alive? Evidence from Italian Household Budgets, 1881-1961"." The Journal of Economic History 61:4 (December, 2001): 904-925.
- G. Toniolo with A. Boltho. ""The Assessment: The Twentieth Century - Achievements, Failures, Lessons"." Oxford Review of Economic Policy XV:4 (Winter, 1999): 1-17.
- G. Toniolo. "Europe’s golden age, 1950-73: speculations from a long-run perspective." The Economic History Review LI:2 (1998): 252-267.
- G. Toniolo, N.Rossi. "Catching-up or falling behind? Italy's economic growth 1895-1947." The Economic History Review XLV (1992): 537-63.
- G. Toniolo, R.Faini. "Reconsidering Japanese Deflation during the 1920s." Explorations in Economic History XXIX (1992): 121-143.
- G. Toniolo, R.Faini. "Deflation Reconsidered: Japan in the 1920." European Economic Review XXXIV (1990): 616-23.
- G. Toniolo, P. L. Ciocca. "Industry and Finance in Italy 1918-1940." The Journal of European Economic History XIII (1984): 113-36.
- G. Toniolo, P. Costa e B. Dolcetta. "The New Scale of the City." Architectural Review CXLIX:891 (May, 1981): 310-12.