Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

 

Professor of Economic History and Director of the Institute of Economics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa.

His main research field is the study of the role played by science and technology in the emergence and consolidation of modern economic growth with a particular focus on the Industrial Revolution in England and the early industrialization of Italy. He has also studied the connection between patents and inventive activities both in historical and contemporary contexts. His research papers have been published in a wide range of international journals in the fields of economic history and economics of innovation.

 

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Italy’s Long-Term Economic Performance: GDP Estimates from 1300 to 1861 
Federico, G., Nuvolari, A., Ridolfi, L., & Vasta, M. (2024)
CEPR Discussion Papers. (No. 19406)

Intellectual property rights in Fascist Italy:“Modernization” and continuity under dictatorship. In The Silent Peacemaker: Intellectual Property Rights and the Interwar International Legal Order, 1919–1939
Gabbuti, G., Sganga, C., & Nuvolari, A. (2024)
Brill

Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber

A’Hearn, B.; Delfino, A.; Nuvolari, A. (2022)
The Economic History Review, 75(3), pp. 972-980

Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth-century Italy

A’Hearn, B.; Delfino, A.; Nuvolari, A. (2021)
The Economic History Review, 75(1), pp. 111-137

The Race between the Snail and the Tortoise: Skill Premium and Early Industrialization in Italy (1861-1913)

Federico, G.; Nuvolari, A.; Ridolfi, L.; Vasta, M. (2021)
Cliometrica, 15(1), pp. 1-42

Patenting the “Risorgimento”: Economic Integration and the Formation of the Italian Patent System

Nuvolari, A.; Vasta, M. (2021)
Jahrbuch fur Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 60(1), pp. 93-122

The Italian Patent System during the Long Nineteenth Century: from Privileges to Property Rights in a Latecomer Industrializing Country

Nuvolari, A.; Vasta, M. (2020)
in G. Gooday, S. Wilf (eds.), Patent Cultures. Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 147-165.

The Origins of the Italian Regional Divide: Evidence from Real Wages, 1861-1913

Federico, G.; Nuvolari, A.; Vasta, M. (2019)
Journal of Economic History, 79(1), pp. 63-98

Alla ricerca delle origini del declino economico italiano

Felice, E.; Nuvolari, A.; Vasta, M. (2019)
L’Industria, 40(2), pp. 197-222