Details about Maria Carmela Schisani

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Journal Articles

2025

1. Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)
   Business History, 2025, 67, (3), 665-710
2. The Roots of Business Familism in Southern Italy. A Quantitative Analysis of the 19th Century
   European Review of Economic History, 2025, 29, (2), 216-243

2021

3. Crowding out the change: business networks and persisting economic elites in the South of Italy over Unification (1840–1880)
   Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 2021, 15, (1), 89-131
   Also in Cliometrica, 1-43

2016

4. Networks of power and networks of capital: evidence from a peripheral area of the first globalisation. The energy sector in Naples: from gas to electricity (1862-1919)
   Business History, 2016, 58, (2), 207-243 View citations (6)

2013

5. Risanamento finanziario, crescita economica e promozione del risparmio: le casse postali nei progetti di Quintino Sella (1862-1877) (Financial recovery, economic growth and saving-promotion policies. The postal savings banks in Quintino Sella's projects (1862-1877))
   Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, 2013, 21, (1), 47-66

2010

6. How to Make a Potentially Defaulting Country Credible: Karl Rothschild, the Neapolitan Debt and Financial Diplomacy (1821-26)
   Rivista di storia economica, 2010, (2), 233-278 View citations (3)

2008

7. Growth of the Italian Financial System after Political Unification, 1861-1914: Financial Deepening and/or Statistical and Methodological Biases?
   Rivista di storia economica, 2008, (2), 135-174 View citations (5)

Undated

8. Correction to: Crowding out the change: business networks and persisting economic elites in the South of Italy over Unification (1840–1880)
   Cliometrica, 1-2

Chapters

2024

1. Tracing the Connections of Transnational Financial Players with a Peripheral Country: Some Evidence from the South of Italy Over the First Globalization
   Springer