LECCE Giampaolo

Academic Positions and Affiliations
Feb. 2024 - Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Bergamo
Sep. 2019 - 2024 Assistant Professor in Economic History, FEB (University of Groningen)
Jan. 2022- Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Jan. 2022- Research Fellow at Political Economics and Reforms, Institutional Complexity, and
Legislative Evaluation Studies (PERICLES), research unit at Università Bocconi
Jan. 2019–June 2019 PostDoctoral Fellow, History Center of Dep. of Economics (Northwestern University)
Aug. 2017–Dec. 2018 PostDoctoral Associate, Università Bocconi (employer: Massimo Morelli)
Aug. 2016–July 2017 PostDoctoral Associate, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics (Yale University)

Education
May 2016 Ph.D. in Economics andFinance, Università “Luigi Bocconi”
Dissertation Committee and References: Maristella Botticini (Supervisor), Alberto Alesina,
Tommaso Nannicini and Guido Tabellini
Dissertation: Culture, Institutions, and Economics Outcomes in Comparative Perspective
March 2010 Master of Science in Economics and Social Sciences, Università “Luigi Bocconi”
Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Alesina
Thesis: “Fiscal Policies During Banking Crisis: Historical Evidence”
Grade:110 cum laude
July 2007 B.Sc. in Economics of International Markets and New Tech., Università “Luigi Bocconi”
Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Billari
Thesis: “Replacement Migration and European Demographic Structure”
Grade:110 cum laude

Research Interests
Political Economics, Economic History and Applied Microeconomics.

Publications
- Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States. (with Gloria Gennaro and Massimo Morelli) Electoral Studies 92 (2024): 102853.
- State Formation, Social Unrest and Cultural Distance: Brigandage in Post-Unification Italy 1861-1865 (with Laura Ogliari and Tommaso Orlando) Journal of Economic Growth, 27(3), 453 - 483 (2022).
- Birth and Migration of scientists: does religiosity matter? (with Laura Ogliari and Mara P. Squicciarini) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, 187, 274-289, 2021.
- Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Insights from Nineteenth- Century Prussia (with Laura Ogliari) Journal of Economic History, 79(4), 1060-1093, 2019
- “The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments” (with A. Alesina and D. Carloni), in Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis, University of Chicago Press, NBER Research Conference Report, 2012.

Working Papers
- Local Specialization and Growth: The Italian Land Reform (with Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati and Matteo Magnaricotte) - Requested Revision
- Turmoil after Death: Leadership, Protests, and Growth (with Laura Ogliari and Tommaso Nannicini)
- From Fields to Factories: Malaria Eradication and Industrialization in Post-War Italy (with Paolo Buonanno, Laura Ogliari and Vitantonio Mariella) - Under Revision
- The Economics and Politics of Government Aid (with Tommaso Colussi, Massimiliano Onorato and Marco Manacorda)
- Social Insurance Programs and the Dynamics of Collective Actions (with Tancredi Buscemi and Michele Rosenberg)

Grants
Eief 2018 Grant (PI: Tommaso Colussi)

Refereeing Activities
Referee for Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economica, Political Science Quarterly, Italian Economic Journal, Acta Sociologica, British Journal of Sociology, Economic History Review, European Journal of Political Economy, European Journal of Political Research, Government and Opposition, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and Rivista di Storia Economica.

Seminar and Conference Organization
- Co-organizer of the Economics Seminar Series at University of Bergamo since Fall 2024
- Co-organizer of the workshop “Structural Change, Industrialization, and Economic Growth” (9 & 10 December 2024) hosted by the University of Bergamo
- Co-organizer of the workshop “Authoritarianism and Nation Building” (6 & 7 June 2025) hosted by the University of Bergamo
- Member of the local organizing committee of the European Historical Economics Society Conference (17 & 18 June 2022) hosted by the University of Groningen.
- Co-organizer of the seminar series PEGDECH at University of Groningen a.y. 2020-2021
- Co-organizer of the Lunch History Seminar at Northwestern University in the Winter and Spring 2019

Seminar and Conference Presentations
2025 Workshop ‘Public Health Interventions in the Long Run: Causes and Consequences’ Wage
ningen University Padova Applied Economic Workshop
2024 GGDC Conference, Groningen University
Workshop on Institutions, Individual Behavior and Economic Outcomes, Alghero
2023 Institutions, Civil Society and Socio-Economic Prosperity workshop, Bocconi University
Economic History Association meeting, Pittsburgh
ASREC European Conference, Milano
2022 ASE Workshop - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Conference on States, Intermediate Institutions and Long-term Development - Utrecht University
(Invited Discussant)
EHES Conference - Groningen University
EHS Conference - Cambridge University
Departmental Seminar - University of Bergamo
2021 Arne Ryde Workshop on Institutions, Culture, and Development - Lund University
Zurich Political Economy Seminar (virtual)
University of California Irvine (virtual)
2020 Economic History Lunch, Northwestern University (virtual)
Pegdech, Groningen University (virtual)
2019 Economic History Lunch, Northwestern University
Groningen University
Departmental Seminar - University of Cosenza
2018 Economic History Association meeting, Montreal
North American Summer Meeting Econometric Society, Davis
Development and Political Economics Brown Bag Workshop, Università Bocconi
The Economics of Culture, Paris (Invited Discussant)
2017 Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Barcelona
ASREC European Conference, Bologna
Economic History Association meeting (Invited Discussant)
ASREC Conference, Boston
Political Economy Lunch, Harvard University
2016 Leitner Political Economy Seminar, Yale University
Lacea Lames Meeting, Medellin
Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, Bilbao (scheduled)
Micro Theory Lunch, Yale University
Development and Political Economics Brown Bag Workshop, Università Bocconi
2015 9th Workshop on Political Economy – Ifo Institute, Dresden
EDGE Jamboree, Aix-Marseille University
Oxford Development Economics Workshop, Oxford University
Development and Political Economics Brown Bag Workshop, Università Bocconi
2011 NBER Conference, Università Bocconi
Teaching Qualification and Abilitazione
2023 Abilitazione scientifica nazionale alle funzioni di professore universitario di seconda fascia
(D.D. 553/2021 come rettificato da D.D. 589/2021) per il settore concorsuale 13/A1
2021 University Teaching Qualification (BKO)
Teaching
Fall 2024 Approfondimenti di Economia Internazionale, instructor
Economia, Istituzioni e Mercati, instructor
Spring 2024 Sviluppo dei Sistemi Economic e Sociali, instructor
Fall 2020 Research Papers for E&BE (Underg.), instructor and coordinator (since Fall 2021)
Fall 2019 - Global Business History (Underg.), instructor and coordinator
Institutions, Growth and Business (Underg.), instructor and coordinator
Economic Growth in History (Grad.), instructor
Empirical Research in BE (Underg.), instructor
Fall 2018 Political Economics Advanced (Grad.), instructor

Languages
English (Fluent), Italian (Native), Spanish (Intermediate)