Marco Molteni
marcomolteni.bsky.social
Marco Molteni
@marcomolteni.bsky.social
Postdoc in financial history at Geneva Graduate Institute. Research Associate at Oxford History Faculty.
Using unique Italian banking supervision archival data, this research uncovers a significant, yet overlooked, banking crisis in Italy in the interwar period. It reveals that Italy's 1920s credit expansion defies traditional crisis models - it wasn't a leverage-driven boom but financial development
February 12, 2024 at 11:46 AM
New paper published in print on European Review of Economic History:
"Credit expansion, leverage, and banking distress: the puzzle of interwar Italy"

Read the full paper here (Open Access):
doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
February 12, 2024 at 11:44 AM