Associate Member, University of Oxford History Faculty
Marco Molteni is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Economic History in the ESOMAS Department at the University of Turin. He maintains several international academic affiliations, serving as a Research Associate with the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, an Academic Fellow in the Department of Social and Political Science at Bocconi University, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Development at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Following his DPhil at Oxford (2021), he worked as a post-doctoral researcher for the GloCoBank project until 2023, focusing on the digitisation and management of the core historical database. He then moved to the Geneva Graduate Institute to work for the SNF project "The Historical Origins and Evolution of Modern Bond Markets, 1963-1994". In October 2024 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Turin.
His research continues to focus on quantitative financial and economic history, specializing in banking network dynamics, financial integration, and historical banking crises. In November 2025, he was awarded the prestigious Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS) Starting Grant from the Italian Ministry of University and Research for his project, "FILHIPE - Financial Literacy in Historical Perspective" (FIS-2024-05508. €1.09 million).
FOREIGN BANKS AND THE LONDON MONEY MARKET DURING THE FIRST GLOBALISATION
21 June 2023
Kisling, Wilfried; Molteni, Marco
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Marco Molteni, 'Credit expansion, leverage, and banking distress: the puzzle of interwar Italy'
25 July 2023
European Review of Economic History, 28(1)
The reciprocity principle in correspondent banking relations. The case of Banca Commerciale Italiana in the first half of the twentieth century
18 January 2024
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Marco Molteni, 'Competition, over-branching, and bank failures during the Great Depression: new evidence from Italy'
04 March 2024
The Economic History Review, 77(4)
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Marco Molteni, Wilfried Kisling, 'The London money market and non-British bank lending during the first globalisation: evidence from Brazil'
15 April 2024
Cliometrica - Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 19
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Molteni, Pala, Schenk, 'The geography of financial integration: Regional disparities in Italian correspondent banking with London, 1920-1985'