Donato Di Carlo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 334944 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Donato Di Carlo |
| NOMBRES | Donato |
| APELLIDO | Di Carlo |
| FIRMA | DI CARLO D |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4406-7739 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 147 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The New Politics of EU Industrial Policy
Across advanced economies, states are reasserting a more directive role in shaping markets. One prominent expression of this shift is the resurgence of industrial policy as a form of interventionist economic governance. This introduction develops a tripartite framework to analyze contemporary industrial policy in terms of goals, instruments, and authority structures—asking for what ends states intervene, through what means, and by and for whom. A…
Dependency or subsidization? An input-output analysis of the interconnectedness of regional growth models in Italy
This article demonstrates the applicability of the growth model framework at the regional level. Focusing on Italy as a paradigmatic case of persistent regional inequalities, we test two theories of center-periphery relations between Northern and Southern Italy: the dependency theory and the subsidization theory. Using EUREGIO regional input-output tables between 2000 and 2007, we decompose the GDP and GDP growth of Italian regions into final dem…
Regulatory Means for Interventionist Ends
Despite its new‐found penchant for market interventionism, the European Union (EU) is often portrayed as lacking the fiscal and administrative capacity to conduct industrial policy. The EU can regulate markets, the conventional wisdom goes, but not steer them in specific directions. In this article, we challenge the notion that regulation and industrial policy are inherently antithetical, arguing instead that the Commission uses its regulatory au…
The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition
The green transition is fundamentally transforming contemporary economies and societies. This article investigates how European models of capitalism perform and specialize across the green value chain—conceptualized as innovation, manufacturing, services, and deployment—and how national skill formation systems underpin these specializations. Integrating insights from comparative capitalism literatures with descriptive statistics and principal com…
What's in a Polity? Political Institutions and Varieties of Economic Interventionism in the United States and the European Union
This article examines the political foundations of industrial policy amid the return of state economic interventionism. Comparing the United States' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the European Union's Green Deal Industrial Plan (GDIP), it shows that contrasting industrial policy strategies were ultimately shaped by differences in the two polities' legislative rules. In both cases, geopolitical pressures sparked renewed interest in green indust…
The Continental Social Investment Turn
European welfare states have experienced a binary transformation characterized by recalibration of traditional social protection programs and expansion of employment-oriented social policies, favoring the emergence of dual-earner families. This article sheds a new light on the pathways leading to these transformations in continental Europe. Theoretically, we characterize continental European welfare states as a configuration of complementary and …
Fighting with blunted tools? The politics of contemporary inflation management in southern Europe
This article compares the responses of the governments and social partners in Italy and Spain to the inflation crisis of 2021–2023. Faced with a common exogenous shock and sharing a comparable institutional setting in the labour market, the two countries’ responses to the inflation crisis differed substantially with regard to the policy mode of crisis response and the types of policy intervention. First, social partners’ involvement was far more …
Shielding competitiveness
We analyse wage developments in Germany during the inflation shock years of 2021–2023 from three perspectives: cost of living, supply-side cost pressure, and relational. With an export-led growth model, Germany is dependent on a favourable real effective exchange rate. Because of its above-average exposure to the energy crisis and low unemployment, Germany was particularly vulnerable to strong wage demands, putting at risk its cost competitivenes…
Introduction to the special issue
This special issue analyses governments’ and social partners’ responses to the cost-of-living crisis of 2021–2023, and dynamics of coordination and conflict underlying them. The study of inflation responses needs updating. First, because compared to the 1970s–1980s, the recent inflation crisis was hardly intensified by high wage demands. Secondly, because industrial relations and collective bargaining institutions have over the last three decades…
Constrained economic policy in Italy’s dual-hybrid economy
This article examines recent developments in Italy's economic and fiscal policymaking. It does so by contextualising the 2023 changes in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) within three broader aspects which have characterised the Italian political economy: (1) the country's conservative fiscal trajectory inside the monetary union (EMU); (2) the expansionary economic policies pursued in the face of both the pandemic and energ…
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism
Comparative political economy scholarship struggles to categorise Italy’s model of capitalism between a mixed-market economy and a hybrid, stagnant economic system. To enhance our understanding of the Italian political economy, this article employs the analytical framework of growth regimes to study Italy’s regional economic systems. Our analysis indicates that Italy can hardly be defined as a ‘national growth regime’ due to the presence of two d…
Structure, Agency, and Structural Reform
Monetary and financial integration has been shown to increase the pressure on states to liberalize social and labor market policies. If structures do not come with instruction sheets, how do monetary regime pressures translate into policy? Through a case study of the euro area, we show that central banks play an underappreciated role in this process. Using mixed methods to analyze a large amount of data, including the complete corpus of speeches,…
Growth Coalitions Within a Corporatist Setting
Since the introduction of the euro, German growth has been primarily based on exports. Signs of an exhaustion of Germany's export-led growth model were already evident before the energy crisis of 2022–23, which hit the country hard. German elites could have capitalized on the shock to rebalance their growth strategy. But the opposite happened: the government's adjustment strategy has aimed at doubling down on export-led growth and protecting the …
Die sektorale Logik der deutschen Lohnzurückhaltung
Die angebotsseitigen Preisschübe seit Mitte des Jahres 2021 haben Sorgen vor der Entstehung einer Lohn-Preis-Spirale geweckt und neue Runden korporatistischer Konzertierung auf den Plan gerufen. Wir argumentieren auf Grundlage einer sektoralen und ländervergleichend angelegten Betrachtung der produktivitätsbereinigten Arbeitskostenauftriebe zwischen der Gründung der Währungsunion und dem Eintritt in die Pandemiekrise, dass Deutschland aufgrund de…
Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism‐Led Growth in Europe's Southern Periphery
Despite being one of the world's major internationally traded services, tourism remains neglected within debates on European integration and growth models. We highlight the rise of tourism‐led growth in southern Europe and argue that the process of European integration has been a double‐edged sword, simultaneously incentivizing and forcing southern European economies to reap their comparative advantage in tourism. While European integration has c…
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market
Published online: 02 May 2023
Beyond neo-corporatism
Cross-country variation in the outcomes of public sector wage-setting (PSWS) persists in Europe. Received wisdom from the neo-corporatist scholarship attributes it to the presence/absence of centralized or co-ordinated wage-setting regimes. This article challenges the conventional view by analysing PSWS through the lens of the common-pool problem of public finance and special-interest politics. Given the structure of political incentives and the …
The constrained politics of local public investment under cooperative federalism
Public investment spending declined steadily in advanced economies during the last three decades. Germany is a case in point where the aggregate decline coincided with growing inequality in investments across districts. What explains the variation in local investment spending? We assembled a novel data set to investigate the effects of structural constraints and partisanship on German districts' investment spending from 1995 to 2018. We find that…
Planning laissez-faire
The mandate of the European Central Bank (ECB) does not extend to labor market and social policies at the national level. Why, despite the reputational costs, did the ECB act as a staunch advocate of structural labor market reforms from 1999 through 2015? We discuss this question through the theoretical lens of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. Although Polanyi has been a key reference point for the debate on the social consequences of Eur…
Governing through non‐enforcement
Political economy scholarship generally assumes that governments are interested in enforcing economic regulations. Cases of non‐enforcement are predominantly studied in the context of developing countries and are chiefly associated with states' deficient institutional capacity. This article casts doubts on these assumptions by showing how governments in advanced democracies manipulate the regulatory regime and generate selective non‐enforcement o…
Understanding wage restraint in the German public sector
German public sector wage restraint has been explained through the presence of a specific type of inter‐sectoral wage coordination in the industrial relations system—that is, export sector‐led pattern bargaining. First, as a literature‐assessing exercise, this paper reviews the literature in industrial relations and comparative political economy (CPE) and finds that (i) the origins and mechanics of inter‐sectoral wage coordination through pattern…
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market
Published online: 02 May 2023
Governing through non‐enforcement
Political economy scholarship generally assumes that governments are interested in enforcing economic regulations. Cases of non‐enforcement are predominantly studied in the context of developing countries and are chiefly associated with states' deficient institutional capacity. This article casts doubts on these assumptions by showing how governments in advanced democracies manipulate the regulatory regime and generate selective non‐enforcement o…
The constrained politics of local public investment under cooperative federalism
Public investment spending declined steadily in advanced economies during the last three decades. Germany is a case in point where the aggregate decline coincided with growing inequality in investments across districts. What explains the variation in local investment spending? We assembled a novel data set to investigate the effects of structural constraints and partisanship on German districts' investment spending from 1995 to 2018. We find that…
Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism‐Led Growth in Europe's Southern Periphery
Despite being one of the world's major internationally traded services, tourism remains neglected within debates on European integration and growth models. We highlight the rise of tourism‐led growth in southern Europe and argue that the process of European integration has been a double‐edged sword, simultaneously incentivizing and forcing southern European economies to reap their comparative advantage in tourism. While European integration has c…
Structure, Agency, and Structural Reform
Monetary and financial integration has been shown to increase the pressure on states to liberalize social and labor market policies. If structures do not come with instruction sheets, how do monetary regime pressures translate into policy? Through a case study of the euro area, we show that central banks play an underappreciated role in this process. Using mixed methods to analyze a large amount of data, including the complete corpus of speeches,…
Planning laissez-faire
The mandate of the European Central Bank (ECB) does not extend to labor market and social policies at the national level. Why, despite the reputational costs, did the ECB act as a staunch advocate of structural labor market reforms from 1999 through 2015? We discuss this question through the theoretical lens of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. Although Polanyi has been a key reference point for the debate on the social consequences of Eur…
What's in a Polity? Political Institutions and Varieties of Economic Interventionism in the United States and the European Union
This article examines the political foundations of industrial policy amid the return of state economic interventionism. Comparing the United States' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the European Union's Green Deal Industrial Plan (GDIP), it shows that contrasting industrial policy strategies were ultimately shaped by differences in the two polities' legislative rules. In both cases, geopolitical pressures sparked renewed interest in green indust…
Growth Coalitions Within a Corporatist Setting
Since the introduction of the euro, German growth has been primarily based on exports. Signs of an exhaustion of Germany's export-led growth model were already evident before the energy crisis of 2022–23, which hit the country hard. German elites could have capitalized on the shock to rebalance their growth strategy. But the opposite happened: the government's adjustment strategy has aimed at doubling down on export-led growth and protecting the …
Beyond neo-corporatism
Cross-country variation in the outcomes of public sector wage-setting (PSWS) persists in Europe. Received wisdom from the neo-corporatist scholarship attributes it to the presence/absence of centralized or co-ordinated wage-setting regimes. This article challenges the conventional view by analysing PSWS through the lens of the common-pool problem of public finance and special-interest politics. Given the structure of political incentives and the …
The Continental Social Investment Turn
European welfare states have experienced a binary transformation characterized by recalibration of traditional social protection programs and expansion of employment-oriented social policies, favoring the emergence of dual-earner families. This article sheds a new light on the pathways leading to these transformations in continental Europe. Theoretically, we characterize continental European welfare states as a configuration of complementary and …
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism
Comparative political economy scholarship struggles to categorise Italy’s model of capitalism between a mixed-market economy and a hybrid, stagnant economic system. To enhance our understanding of the Italian political economy, this article employs the analytical framework of growth regimes to study Italy’s regional economic systems. Our analysis indicates that Italy can hardly be defined as a ‘national growth regime’ due to the presence of two d…
The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition
The green transition is fundamentally transforming contemporary economies and societies. This article investigates how European models of capitalism perform and specialize across the green value chain—conceptualized as innovation, manufacturing, services, and deployment—and how national skill formation systems underpin these specializations. Integrating insights from comparative capitalism literatures with descriptive statistics and principal com…
Constrained economic policy in Italy’s dual-hybrid economy
This article examines recent developments in Italy's economic and fiscal policymaking. It does so by contextualising the 2023 changes in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) within three broader aspects which have characterised the Italian political economy: (1) the country's conservative fiscal trajectory inside the monetary union (EMU); (2) the expansionary economic policies pursued in the face of both the pandemic and energ…
Understanding wage restraint in the German public sector
German public sector wage restraint has been explained through the presence of a specific type of inter‐sectoral wage coordination in the industrial relations system—that is, export sector‐led pattern bargaining. First, as a literature‐assessing exercise, this paper reviews the literature in industrial relations and comparative political economy (CPE) and finds that (i) the origins and mechanics of inter‐sectoral wage coordination through pattern…
Planning laissez-faire
The mandate of the European Central Bank (ECB) does not extend to labor market and social policies at the national level. Why, despite the reputational costs, did the ECB act as a staunch advocate of structural labor market reforms from 1999 through 2015? We discuss this question through the theoretical lens of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. Although Polanyi has been a key reference point for the debate on the social consequences of Eur…
Governing through non‐enforcement
Political economy scholarship generally assumes that governments are interested in enforcing economic regulations. Cases of non‐enforcement are predominantly studied in the context of developing countries and are chiefly associated with states' deficient institutional capacity. This article casts doubts on these assumptions by showing how governments in advanced democracies manipulate the regulatory regime and generate selective non‐enforcement o…
Die sektorale Logik der deutschen Lohnzurückhaltung
Die angebotsseitigen Preisschübe seit Mitte des Jahres 2021 haben Sorgen vor der Entstehung einer Lohn-Preis-Spirale geweckt und neue Runden korporatistischer Konzertierung auf den Plan gerufen. Wir argumentieren auf Grundlage einer sektoralen und ländervergleichend angelegten Betrachtung der produktivitätsbereinigten Arbeitskostenauftriebe zwischen der Gründung der Währungsunion und dem Eintritt in die Pandemiekrise, dass Deutschland aufgrund de…
Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism‐Led Growth in Europe's Southern Periphery
Despite being one of the world's major internationally traded services, tourism remains neglected within debates on European integration and growth models. We highlight the rise of tourism‐led growth in southern Europe and argue that the process of European integration has been a double‐edged sword, simultaneously incentivizing and forcing southern European economies to reap their comparative advantage in tourism. While European integration has c…
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market
Published online: 02 May 2023
Beyond neo-corporatism
Cross-country variation in the outcomes of public sector wage-setting (PSWS) persists in Europe. Received wisdom from the neo-corporatist scholarship attributes it to the presence/absence of centralized or co-ordinated wage-setting regimes. This article challenges the conventional view by analysing PSWS through the lens of the common-pool problem of public finance and special-interest politics. Given the structure of political incentives and the …
The constrained politics of local public investment under cooperative federalism
Public investment spending declined steadily in advanced economies during the last three decades. Germany is a case in point where the aggregate decline coincided with growing inequality in investments across districts. What explains the variation in local investment spending? We assembled a novel data set to investigate the effects of structural constraints and partisanship on German districts' investment spending from 1995 to 2018. We find that…
Fighting with blunted tools? The politics of contemporary inflation management in southern Europe
This article compares the responses of the governments and social partners in Italy and Spain to the inflation crisis of 2021–2023. Faced with a common exogenous shock and sharing a comparable institutional setting in the labour market, the two countries’ responses to the inflation crisis differed substantially with regard to the policy mode of crisis response and the types of policy intervention. First, social partners’ involvement was far more …
Shielding competitiveness
We analyse wage developments in Germany during the inflation shock years of 2021–2023 from three perspectives: cost of living, supply-side cost pressure, and relational. With an export-led growth model, Germany is dependent on a favourable real effective exchange rate. Because of its above-average exposure to the energy crisis and low unemployment, Germany was particularly vulnerable to strong wage demands, putting at risk its cost competitivenes…
Introduction to the special issue
This special issue analyses governments’ and social partners’ responses to the cost-of-living crisis of 2021–2023, and dynamics of coordination and conflict underlying them. The study of inflation responses needs updating. First, because compared to the 1970s–1980s, the recent inflation crisis was hardly intensified by high wage demands. Secondly, because industrial relations and collective bargaining institutions have over the last three decades…
Constrained economic policy in Italy’s dual-hybrid economy
This article examines recent developments in Italy's economic and fiscal policymaking. It does so by contextualising the 2023 changes in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) within three broader aspects which have characterised the Italian political economy: (1) the country's conservative fiscal trajectory inside the monetary union (EMU); (2) the expansionary economic policies pursued in the face of both the pandemic and energ…
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism
Comparative political economy scholarship struggles to categorise Italy’s model of capitalism between a mixed-market economy and a hybrid, stagnant economic system. To enhance our understanding of the Italian political economy, this article employs the analytical framework of growth regimes to study Italy’s regional economic systems. Our analysis indicates that Italy can hardly be defined as a ‘national growth regime’ due to the presence of two d…
Structure, Agency, and Structural Reform
Monetary and financial integration has been shown to increase the pressure on states to liberalize social and labor market policies. If structures do not come with instruction sheets, how do monetary regime pressures translate into policy? Through a case study of the euro area, we show that central banks play an underappreciated role in this process. Using mixed methods to analyze a large amount of data, including the complete corpus of speeches,…
Growth Coalitions Within a Corporatist Setting
Since the introduction of the euro, German growth has been primarily based on exports. Signs of an exhaustion of Germany's export-led growth model were already evident before the energy crisis of 2022–23, which hit the country hard. German elites could have capitalized on the shock to rebalance their growth strategy. But the opposite happened: the government's adjustment strategy has aimed at doubling down on export-led growth and protecting the …
Regulatory Means for Interventionist Ends
Despite its new‐found penchant for market interventionism, the European Union (EU) is often portrayed as lacking the fiscal and administrative capacity to conduct industrial policy. The EU can regulate markets, the conventional wisdom goes, but not steer them in specific directions. In this article, we challenge the notion that regulation and industrial policy are inherently antithetical, arguing instead that the Commission uses its regulatory au…
The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition
The green transition is fundamentally transforming contemporary economies and societies. This article investigates how European models of capitalism perform and specialize across the green value chain—conceptualized as innovation, manufacturing, services, and deployment—and how national skill formation systems underpin these specializations. Integrating insights from comparative capitalism literatures with descriptive statistics and principal com…
What's in a Polity? Political Institutions and Varieties of Economic Interventionism in the United States and the European Union
This article examines the political foundations of industrial policy amid the return of state economic interventionism. Comparing the United States' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the European Union's Green Deal Industrial Plan (GDIP), it shows that contrasting industrial policy strategies were ultimately shaped by differences in the two polities' legislative rules. In both cases, geopolitical pressures sparked renewed interest in green indust…
The Continental Social Investment Turn
European welfare states have experienced a binary transformation characterized by recalibration of traditional social protection programs and expansion of employment-oriented social policies, favoring the emergence of dual-earner families. This article sheds a new light on the pathways leading to these transformations in continental Europe. Theoretically, we characterize continental European welfare states as a configuration of complementary and …
The New Politics of EU Industrial Policy
Across advanced economies, states are reasserting a more directive role in shaping markets. One prominent expression of this shift is the resurgence of industrial policy as a form of interventionist economic governance. This introduction develops a tripartite framework to analyze contemporary industrial policy in terms of goals, instruments, and authority structures—asking for what ends states intervene, through what means, and by and for whom. A…
Dependency or subsidization? An input-output analysis of the interconnectedness of regional growth models in Italy
This article demonstrates the applicability of the growth model framework at the regional level. Focusing on Italy as a paradigmatic case of persistent regional inequalities, we test two theories of center-periphery relations between Northern and Southern Italy: the dependency theory and the subsidization theory. Using EUREGIO regional input-output tables between 2000 and 2007, we decompose the GDP and GDP growth of Italian regions into final dem…
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