ASSOCIAÇÃO PORTUGUESA DE HISTÓRIA ECONÓMICA E SOCIAL Stefano Ugolini, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Curriculum Vitae Date of Birth: August 31, 1981. Citizenship: Italian. Language Skills: Fluency in English, French, and Italian; good reading knowledge of Latin; basic reading knowledge of Dutch and German. Contact: s.ugolini@sns.it Current Position 2011-12: Post-Doc, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Previous Position 2009-11: Norges Bank Fellow, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (scientific advisor to the Governor s Office of the Bank of Norway, in the context of Norges Bank s Bicentenary Project). PhD Dissertation Title: The International Financial System and the Emergence of National Monetary Policies 1835-1870. Jointly awarded (with distinctions) by Sciences Po, Paris, and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Date of defence: September 3, 2009. 1
Education 2007-2008: Visiting, University of Geneva. 2007: Visiting, École Normale Supérieure (Rue d Ulm), Paris. 2006: Visiting, The Warburg Institute, London. 2004-2009: PhD student in Economics, Sciences Po, Paris (International Finance Program) and in Humanities, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Modern History Program). 2000-2004: Undergraduate student, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and University of Pisa. Grants and Awards 2007-2008: Exchange grant, University of Geneva. 2006: Research grant, Secrétariat du Conseil Général, Bank of France. 2005: Exchange grant, Secrétariat Général de l Université Franco-Italienne. 2004-2007: Grant for graduate students, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. 2000-2004: Grant for undergraduate students, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Teaching Experience 2010: Supervisor, Norges Bank Seminar for Junior Researchers, Bank of Norway. 2009: Teaching assistant, Development Strategies class (spring semester), International History and Politics Unit, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. 2
2008: Teaching assistant, International Money and Finance class (fall semester), International Economics Unit, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals 1. Bagehot for Beginners: The Making of Lending of Last Resort Operations in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (with Vincent Bignon and Marc Flandreau), Economic History Review, forthcoming. 2. The Origins of Foreign Exchange Policy: The National Bank of Belgium and the Quest for Monetary Independence in the 1850s, European Review of Economic History, 16:1, 2012, pp. 51-73. Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Books 3. Where It All Began: Lending of Last Resort and the Bank of England during the Overend-Gurney Panic of 1866 (with Marc Flandreau), in Michael D. Bordo and William Roberds (eds.), A Return to Jekyll Island: The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (also available as CEPR Discussion Paper 8362). 4. Foreign Exchange Reserve Management in the Nineteenth Century: The National Bank of Belgium in the 1850s, in Anders Ögren and Lars Fredrik Øksendal (eds.), The Gold Standard Peripheries: Monetary Policy, Adjustment and Flexibility in a Global Setting, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 107-29. 5. An Atypical Case? The First Emergence of Brussels as an International Financial Centre 1830-1860, in Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and Youssef Cassis (eds.), Financial Centres and International Capital Flows in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 47-70. Chapters in Non-Peer-Reviewed Books 3
6. The Structure of the World Bullion Market at the Time of the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard: New Evidence 1864-1876, in Georges Depeyrot (ed.), Documents and Studies on Nineteenth-Century Monetary History: Money and Economies during the Nineteenth Century (from Europe to Asia), Moneta, 2012, pp. 187-206. 7. Lo sviluppo dei brefotrofi ed il loro rapporto con il sacramento del battesimo. Stato degli studi, in Adriano Prosperi (ed.), Salvezza delle anime, disciplina dei corpi. Un seminario sulla storia del battesimo, Edizioni della Normale, 2006, pp. 527-550. 8. Leandro Alberti di fronte al problema dei confini della Romagna, in Massimo Donattini (ed.), Il territorio emiliano e romagnolo nella Descrittione di Leandro Alberti, Leading Edizioni, 2004, pp. 41-54. Articles in Edited Working Papers Series 9. What Do We Really Know about the Long-Term Evolution of Central Banking? Evidence from the Past, Insights for the Present, Norges Bank Working Paper 2011/15. 10. The International Monetary System 1844-1870: Arbitrage, Efficiency, Liquidity, Norges Bank Working Paper 2010/23. 11. Universal Banking and the Development of Secondary Corporate Debt Markets: Lessons from 1830s Belgium, Norges Bank Working Paper 2010/21. Working Papers 12. Bank of England Operations Reloaded: Monetary Policy Implementation in Britain at the Heyday of the Classical Gold Standard 1889-1910. 13. L invention d un système monétaire national: banques d émission, supervision bancaire et développement financier en Belgique (1822-1872) [The Invention of 4
a National Monetary System: Banks of Issue, Banking Supervision, and Financial Development in Belgium 1822-1872]. Book Reviews 1. Herman Van der Wee and Monique Verbreyt, A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009, 494pp. 59.50). Journal of European Economic History, forthcoming. 2. Philip L. Cottrell, Evan Lange and Ulf Olsson (eds.), Centres and Peripheries in Banking: The Historical Development of Financial Markets (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, xiv + 326pp. 27 figs. 33 tabs. 60). Financial History Review, 16, 2009, pp. 95-6. Media 1. What Future for Central Banking? Insights from the Past, VoxEu Column, December 11, 2011. 2. From Lender of Last Resort to Global Currency? Sterling Lessons for the US Dollar (with Marc Flandreau), VoxEu Column, July 23, 2011. 3. Italy s Elite Exception, interview by Francis X. Rocca, The Chronicle for Higher Education, January 16, 2004. Presentations at International Conferences 1. Paolo Baffi Seminar, Bocconi University (invited Milan, May 4, 2012). 2. International Workshop Writing Monetary and Central Bank History (accepted Geneva, April 26-27, 2012). 3. Annual Conference of the Economic History Society (Oxford, March 30 - April 1 2012). 5
4. Eighth Conference of the Mission Historique of the Bank of France (Paris, March 15-16, 2012). 5. International Conference The Gold Market from the 19 th Century until Today (Lausanne, March 9-10, 2012). 6. Ninth Conference of the European Historical Economics Society (Dublin, September 2-3, 2011). 7. Second Workshop for Young Scholars of the European Association for Banking History (Rotterdam, March 29, 2011). 8. Frontier Research in Economic and Social History Meeting, Universidad Carlos III (Madrid, March 10-11, 2011). 9. First Swiss-Clio Conference (Basel, September 17, 2010). 10. Thirty-Fifth Conference of the Economic and Business Historical Society (Braga, May 27-28, 2010). 11. International Workshop on Institutions and Politics in Financial Development (Stockholm, May 25, 2010). 12. International Workshop on Financial Crises and LLR (Paris, September 24, 2009). 13. Eighth Conference of the European Historical Economics Society (Geneva, September 4-5, 2009). 14. Fifteenth World Economic History Congress (Utrecht, August 3-7, 2009). 15. Sixth World Congress of the Cliometric Society (Edinburgh, July 17-20, 2008). 16. First Euro-Clio Conference (Paris, April 24-26, 2008). 17. Seventh Conference of the European Historical Economics Society (Lund, June 29 - July 1, 2007). Participation to International Research Projects 6
1. 2009-2016: Bank of Norway (Norway), Norges Bank s Bicentenary Project (http://www.norges-bank.no/en/about/history/bicentenary-project/). 2. 2012-2015: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), DAMIN Project (http://www.anr-damin.net/). 7