Michelangelo Vasta is professor of Economic History at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Siena. He studied economic history, history of science and economics at the University of Oxford, where he received his D.Phil. His main fields of interest are: economics of innovation in the long run perspective, institutions and economic performance, the economic history of living standard, entrepreneurship and trade. He pays particular attention to historical dataset and quantitative methods. He has published extensively in the major economic history and business history journals.
VASTA MICHELANGELO
Presentation
Office hours
Office hours: Tuesday 10-12 am.
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching activities
Completion accademic year: 2022/2023
Completion accademic year: 2021/2022
Completion accademic year: 2020/2021
Completion accademic year: 2019/2020
Research
Selected publications:
- Nuvolari, A., Tortorici, G., Vasta, M. (2023). British-French technology transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791-1844): evidence from patent data. THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 83(3), 833-873 [10.1017/S0022050723000232]. - view more
- Bozzano, M., Cappelli, G., Vasta, M. (2024). Whither education? The long shadow of pre-unification school systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911). THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 84(1), 149-190 [10.1017/S0022050723000219]. - view more
- Cioni, M., Federico, G., Vasta, M. (2020). The long-term evolution of economic history: evidence from the top five journals (1927-2017). CLIOMETRICA, 14(1), 1-39 [10.1007/s11698-019-00186-x]. - view more
- Federico, G., Nuvolari, A., Vasta, M. (2019). The Origins of the Italian Regional Divide: Evidence from Real Wages, 1861–1913. THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 79(1), 63-98 [10.1017/S0022050718000712]. - view more
- Vasta, M., Di Martino, P. (2018). Reassessing the Italian “Economic Miracle”: Law, Firms’ Governance, and Management, 1950-1973. BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW, 92(2), 281-306 [10.1017/S0007680518000430]. - view more