STOREP 2026: INET-STOREP Initiative

CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DEINDUSTRIALISATION

Structural change, globalisation, and labour productivity

23rd Annual STOREP Conference, June 25-27, 2026
Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Corso Umberto I, 40 – Napoli

INET-STOREP INITIATIVE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DEINDUSTRIALISATION

Following a now-established tradition, the joint STOREP-INET initiative takes place during the annual STOREP conference and is attended by both STOREP members and young scholars of the INET Young Scholars international network. The event aims to promote rigorous discussion and comparison of different views on relevant economic issues. The ambition is to offer attending young scholars a unique opportunity to broaden their knowledge and acquire tools for in-depth reflection on such matters.

Round table

Ignazio Visco (Banca d’Italia)
Anna Maria Simonazzi (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Luca Fantacci (Università di Milano)
Chair: Antonella Stirati (Università Roma Tre)

Ignazio Visco was born in 1949. He earned a degree in economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (supervisor: Federico Caffè), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania (thesis supervisors: A. Ando and L.R. Klein). He joined the Bank of Italy in 1972, conducting research on household saving and wealth; firms’ costs and profits; inflation, expectations and wage indexation; and monetary and exchange-rate policy. He taught econometrics and economic policy at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome. He led the working group that developed the quarterly model of the Italian economy. In 1990 he was appointed Head of the Research Service.

From 1997 to 2002 he served as Chief Economist and Director of the Economics Department at the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD). After returning to the Bank of Italy, in 2004 he became Director General for International Activities and in 2006 Director General for Economic Research. He joined the Bank of Italy’s Directorate in 2007 and served as Deputy Governor until October 2011. Appointed Governor in November 2011, he led the institution until October 2023.

He is the author of numerous publications, including: Price Expectations in Rising Inflation, North-Holland, 1984; L’economia italiana (with L. F. Signorini), Il Mulino, 2002, 2nd ed.; Investire in conoscenza, Il Mulino, 2014, 2nd ed.; and Inflazione e politica monetaria, Laterza, 2023. His latest work is La crisi della globalizzazione, Morcelliana, 2026

Anna Maria Simonazzi. Formerly Professor of Political Economy at Sapienza University of Rome and an expert advisor to the National Council for Economy and Labour (CNEL) in the X Council (2018-2023), Annamaria Simonazzi is President of the Giacomo Brodolini Foundation, editor-in-chief of Economia & Lavoro, and a member of the editorial board of the web magazine www.inGenere.it. She is a member of several academic societies and an honorary member of STOREP.

She has published widely in the fields of Political Economy, European and international economics, industrial economics, labor and gender economics. Among her most recent contributions: “European Union’s structural vulnerability in a changing geopolitical environment”, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2023; “Attualità del pensiero di Napoleoni per l’analisi del capitalismo contemporaneo”, Rivista di Storia dell’Università di Torino, 2025; “Learning from the mistakes of the past: policy recommendations for a divided European Union to avert decline”, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 2025; “The bumpy road of the European automotive industry towards sustainable mobility”, Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, February 2025.

Luca Fantacci is an Associate Professor of Economic history at Università degli Studi di Milano, where he teaches Political economy and Representations of value: money and capital from clay tablets to cryptocurrencies, and where he is head of the MA in Cultural, intellectual and visual history. Luca also teaches History of economic thought and Financial history at Bocconi University. His main research area concerns the evolution of monetary and financial theories and systems, with a special focus on the writings and activities of John Maynard Keynes, of which he has translated and edited three collections of essays in Italian.

He is the author of La moneta. Storia di un’istituzione mancata (Marsilio, 2005) and co-author of The Darkweb Side of Mafias (Zolfo, 2024). Together with Massimo Amato he wrote The End of Finance (Polity, 2012), Saving the Market from Capitalism. Ideas for an Alternative Finance (Polity, 2014) and A Fistful of Bitcoins: The Risks and Opportunities of Virtual Currencies (Bocconi UP, 2020). He was Visiting Fellow at Neubauer College, University of Chicago; IASS, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam; Université Paris 13; Christ’s College, Cambridge. He is consultant for the Committee on Finance and Banking at the Italian Senate.

Antonella Stirati is Professor of Economics at Università Roma Tre. She studied economics at the University of Siena (laurea in Scienze Economiche), Cambridge UK (M.Phil degree) and La Sapienza (PhD). Her research interests are in the development of the Classical-Keynesian approach, particularly in the fields of output and employment determination, income distribution, and unemployment. She wrote a book on The Theory of Wages in Classical Economics (Elgar, 1994), co-edited the three-volumes collection Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory, (Palgrave-macmillan, 2013) and published a number of articles in academic journals and collected volumes. She is also active in scientific popularization and intervenes in public debates on current issues, and recently published Lavoro e salari. Un punto di vista alternativo sulla crisi (L’Asino d’oro edizioni, 2020). She is an associate editor of the journal Review of Political Economy, and served as STOREP President from 2018 to 2021.