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Guido Alfani

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Bocconi University, ISE, Via Roentgen 1, 20136 Milano, Italy

Affiliation

(50%) Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER)
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy
http://www.igier.unibocconi.it/
RePEc:edi:igierit (more details at EDIRC)

(50%) "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA)
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy
http://www.dondena.unibocconi.it/
RePEc:edi:dobocit (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Alfani, Guido, 2023. "Inequality in History: A Long-Run View," SocArXiv 94dgs, Center for Open Science.
  2. Alfani, Guido, 2023. "Epidemics and pandemics: from the Justinianic Plague to the Spanish Flu," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 682, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  3. Alfani, Guido & Gierok, Victoria & Schaff, Felix, 2022. "Economic inequality in preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 113758, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  4. Guido Alfani & Francesco Ammannati & Wouter Ryckbosch, 2022. "Poverty in early modern Europe: New approaches to old problems," Working Papers 0222, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
  5. Alfani, Guido & Di Tullio, M & Fochesato, M, 2020. "The determinants of wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice (1400-1800)," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 483, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  6. Alfani, Guido, 2020. "Pandemics and asymmetric shocks: evidence from the history of plague in Europe and the Mediterranean," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 478, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  7. Arnstein Aassve & Guido Alfani & Francesco Gandolfi & Marco Le Moglie, 2020. "Epidemics and Trust: The Case of the Spanish Flu," Working Papers 661, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
  8. Alfani, Guido, 2020. "Epidemics, inequality and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial times," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 520, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  9. Guido Alfani & Federico Tadei, 2019. "Income Inequality in French West Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Senegal and Ivory Coast," UB School of Economics Working Papers 2019/396, University of Barcelona School of Economics.
  10. Guido Alfani & Cormac Ó Gráda, 2018. "Famine and Disease in Economic History: A Summary Introduction," Working Papers 201803, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
  11. Guido Alfani, 2017. "The rich in historical perspective: Evidence for preindustrial Europe, c. 1300-1800," Working Papers 17020, Economic History Society.
  12. Alfani, Guido & Tadei, Federico, 2017. "Income Inequality In Colonial Africa: Building Social Tables For Pre-Independence Central African Republic, Ivory Coast And Senegal," African Economic History Working Paper 33/2017, African Economic History Network.
  13. Guido Alfani & Marco Percoco, 2016. "Plague and long-term development: the lasting effects of the 1629-30 epidemic on the Italian cities," Working Papers 0106, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
  14. Guido Alfani & Wouter Ryckbosch, 2015. "Was there a ‘Little Convergence’ in inequality? Italy and the Low Countries compared, ca. 1500-1800," Working Papers 557, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
  15. Guido Alfani & Matteo Di Tullio, 2015. "Dinamiche di lungo periodo della disuguaglianza in Italia settentrionale: una nota di ricerca," Working Papers 071, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  16. Guido Alfani & Luca Mocarelli & Donatella Strangio, 2015. "Italian Famines: An overview (ca. 1250-1810)," Working Papers 084, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  17. Guido Alfani, 2015. "Famines in late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A test for an advanced economy," Working Papers 082, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  18. Guido Alfani, 2014. "Economic inequality in northwestern Italy: A long-term view (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries)," Working Papers 061, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  19. Guido Alfani & Francesco Ammannati, 2014. "Economic inequality and poverty in the very long run: The case of the Florentine State," Working Papers 070, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  20. Vegard Skirbekk & Marcin Stonawski & Guido Alfani, 2014. "Consequences of a universal European demographic transition on regional and global population distributions," Working Papers 068, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  21. Guido Alfani & Elena Roberta Frigeni, 2013. "Inequality (un)perceived: The emergence of a discourse on economic inequality from the Middle Ages to the Age of Revolutions," Working Papers 058, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  22. Guido Alfani & Vincent Gourdon & Agnese Vitali, 2011. "Social customs and demographic change: The case of godparenthood in Catholic Europe," Working Papers 040, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  23. Guido Alfani, 2011. "Plague in Seventeenth Century Europe and the Decline of Italy: An Epidemiological Hypothesis," Working Papers 377, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
  24. Guido Alfani & Vincent Gourdon, 2010. "Entrepreneurs, formalisation of social ties and trustbuilding in Europe (14th-20th centuries)," Working Papers 025, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  25. Guido Alfani, 2010. "Climate, population and famine in Northern Italy: General tendencies and Malthusian crisis, ca. 1450-1800," Working Papers 027, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  26. Guido Alfani, 2008. "Concentration of wealth in an early modern city (Ivrea, fifteenth-seventeenth centuries)," Working Papers 8033, Economic History Society.

Articles

  1. Guido Alfani & Alfonso Carballo, 2023. "Income and inequality in the Aztec Empire on the eve of the Spanish conquest," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 7(8), pages 1265-1274, August.
  2. Guido Alfani, 2022. "Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 60(1), pages 3-40, March.
  3. Guido Alfani & Hector García Montero, 2022. "Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial England: A long‐term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(4), pages 1314-1348, November.
  4. Alfani, Guido & Gierok, Victoria & Schaff, Felix, 2022. "Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 82(1), pages 87-125, March.
  5. Guido Alfani, 2021. "Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 59(1), pages 3-44, March.
  6. Arnstein Aassve & Guido Alfani & Francesco Gandolfi & Marco Le Moglie, 2021. "Epidemics and trust: The case of the Spanish Flu," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(4), pages 840-857, April.
  7. Guido Alfani & Marco Bonetti, 2019. "A survival analysis of the last great European plagues: The case of Nonantola (Northern Italy) in 1630," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 73(1), pages 101-118, January.
  8. Guido Alfani & Marco Percoco, 2019. "Plague and long‐term development: the lasting effects of the 1629–30 epidemic on the Italian cities," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 72(4), pages 1175-1201, November.
  9. Long Hong & Guido Alfani & Chiara Gigliarano & Marco Bonetti, 2018. "giniinc: A Stata package for measuring inequality from incomplete income and survival data," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 18(3), pages 692-715, September.
  10. Guido Alfani & Cormac Ó Gráda, 2018. "The timing and causes of famines in Europe," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 1(6), pages 283-288, June.
  11. Guido Alfani, 2017. "The rich in historical perspective: evidence for preindustrial Europe (ca. 1300–1800)," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 11(3), pages 321-348, September.
  12. Guido Alfani & Francesco Ammannati, 2017. "Long‐term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine state, c. 1300–1800," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 70(4), pages 1072-1102, November.
  13. Alfani, Guido & Murphy, Tommy E., 2017. "Plague and Lethal Epidemics in the Pre-Industrial World," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 77(1), pages 314-343, March.
  14. Guido Alfani, 2016. "Measuring Well-Being in the Past," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 62(4), pages 785-791, December.
  15. Alfani, Guido & Ryckbosch, Wouter, 2016. "Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500–1800," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 143-153.
  16. Guido Alfani, 2015. "Gérard Béaur , Phillipp R. Schofield , Jean-Michel Chevet , and María Teresa Pérez Picazo , eds., Property rights, land markets and economic growth in the European countryside ( Turnhout, Belgium : Br," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(1), pages 373-374, February.
  17. Alfani, Guido, 2015. "Economic Inequality in Northwestern Italy: A Long-Term View (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 75(4), pages 1058-1096, December.
  18. Davide Risso & Luca Taglioli & Sergio De Iasio & Paola Gueresi & Guido Alfani & Sergio Nelli & Paolo Rossi & Giorgio Paoli & Sergio Tofanelli, 2015. "Estimating Sampling Selection Bias in Human Genetics: A Phenomenological Approach," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(10), pages 1-13, October.
  19. Guido Alfani, 2013. "Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 17(4), pages 408-430, November.
  20. Guido Alfani & Vincent Gourdon, 2012. "Entrepreneurs, formalization of social ties, and trustbuilding in Europe (fourteenth to twentieth centuries)," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 65(3), pages 1005-1028, August.
  21. Alfani, Guido, 2012. "Rules of Exchange: French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries. By Alessandro Stanziani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 313. $ 90.00, ha," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(4), pages 1094-1096, December.
  22. Guido Alfani, 2011. "Population Dynamics, Malthusian Crises and Boserupian Innovation in Pre-Industrial Societies: The Case Study of Northern Italy (ca. 1450-1800) in the Light of Lee’s "Dynamic Synthesis"," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, issue 2, pages 23-56, April-Jun.
  23. Guido Alfani, 2010. "Trade and industry in early modern Italy," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(5), pages 860-862.
  24. Guido Alfani, 2007. "Population et environnement en Italie du Nord au XVIe siècle," Population (french edition), Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED), vol. 62(4), pages 667-705.
  25. Guido Alfani & Marie-France Merger Leandri, 2006. "Les réseaux de marrainage en Italie du Nord du XVe au XVIIe siècle : coutumes, évolution, parcours individuels," Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 25(4), pages 17-44.
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    RePEc:dem:demres:v:45:y:2021:i:6 is not listed on IDEAS

Chapters

  1. Guido Alfani & Cormac Ó Gráda, 2018. "Famine and Disease," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Matthias Blum & Christopher L. Colvin (ed.), An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, chapter 16, pages 133-141, Palgrave Macmillan.

Books

  1. Alfani,Guido & Di Tullio,Matteo, 2019. "The Lion's Share," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781108476218.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 29 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (28) 2010-04-04 2010-06-04 2011-02-12 2013-08-23 2014-08-20 2014-12-19 2015-02-16 2015-03-05 2015-10-04 2015-12-08 2015-12-20 2017-02-12 2017-02-19 2018-10-08 2018-12-17 2020-03-23 2020-04-06 2020-06-29 2020-08-31 2020-09-28 2020-11-02 2020-11-02 2020-11-16 2021-01-11 2022-01-17 2022-05-02 2023-11-20 2023-11-27. Author is listed
  2. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (7) 2014-08-20 2014-12-19 2015-02-16 2015-10-04 2018-10-08 2020-04-06 2022-05-02. Author is listed
  3. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (5) 2011-03-26 2014-12-19 2017-02-12 2020-03-23 2020-06-29. Author is listed
  4. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (5) 2017-02-12 2020-03-23 2020-08-31 2020-11-02 2021-01-11. Author is listed
  5. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (2) 2010-06-04 2015-12-08
  6. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (2) 2013-08-23 2022-01-17
  7. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (2) 2010-04-04 2020-03-23
  8. NEP-AGE: Economics of Ageing (1) 2011-03-26
  9. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2020-11-16
  10. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (1) 2010-06-04
  11. NEP-EUR: Microeconomic European Issues (1) 2011-03-26
  12. NEP-HME: Heterodox Microeconomics (1) 2013-08-23
  13. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (1) 2010-04-04
  14. NEP-MFD: Microfinance (1) 2015-03-05
  15. NEP-ORE: Operations Research (1) 2021-01-11
  16. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2017-02-12

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