Dr Paolo Di Martino
Email: P.Dimartino@manchester.ac.uk
Ext. 0161 275 3090
Room No: N 2.9
Profile
Paolo Di Martino is lecturer in Economic History. He teaches modern European and international economic history, with particular emphasis on the role of economic institutions.
His current research activity focuses on the comparative study of bankruptcy and insolvency in late XIX century and the inter-war period.
Before joining Manchester University, he was post-doctoral visiting at the London School of Economics, temporary lecturer in economic history at the University of Bristol and the University of Birmingham.
Selected publications
Forthcoming
P. Di Martino, Institutions, inefficiency, and financial speculation: evidence from 1880s Italy , forthcoming
2005P. Di Martino, Approaching Disaster: A Comparison between Personal Bankruptcy Legislation in Italy and England (c.1880-1939) , Business History, 1, 2005
2004
P. Di Martino, Banking crises and the evolution of bankruptcy legislation in Italy , Rivista di Storia Economica, 2004, XX (1), pp. 65-85
2001P. Di Martino, Corso della Rendita e andamento del tasso di cambio della Lira negli anni del gold standard (1883-1893), Rivista di Storia Economica, 2001, XVII, (1), pp. 3-31
1999P. Di Martino, "A Re-discovered Approach: Irving Fisher's Debt-Deflation Theory", History of Economic Ideas, 1999, VII, n. 3, pp. 193-207
Undergraduate teaching
First year: Economics and History (with T. Balderston)
Second year: European Economic History (with. P. Gattrell and J. Harrison)
Third year: Institutions, risk taking and economic performance in historical perspective (XIX-XX centuries).