Donato Di Carlo is an Assistant Professor in Political Economy. His academic research focuses on comparative political economy and public policy issues, with a specific focus on growth models, industrial policy, economic regulation, EU integration, comparative industrial relations and wage-setting systems. Among others, his academic work has appeared in journals such as New Political Economy, Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Society, Regulation & Governance, Socio-economic Review.
In Spring 2023, he founded the Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy and Economic Governance (LUHNIP), at Luiss University in Rome. LUHNIP is a non-partisan, interdisciplinary hub conducting research, policy advocacy and public engagement activities on issues pertaining to industrial policy and economic governance in Europe and in Italy.
Donato holds a PhD in European Political Economy from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne. Before joining the LSE, he was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow (2020/2021) at the European University Institute in Fiesole, and worked as Senior Researcher at the MPIfG (2021/2023), as external economic advisor to the Cabinet of the Mayor of Rome (2022), and was Lecturer in Political Economy at Luiss University (2023/2024).
Expertise
Comparative Political Economy, Economic Governance, Industrial Policy
Di Carlo, Donato, Eisl, Andreas, & Zurstrassen, Dimitri (2024): "Together we trade, divided we aid: Mapping the flexibilization of the EU state aid regime across GBER, IPCEIs, and Temporary Frameworks." Jacques Delors Institute Policy Paper No. 307. November 2024.
Di Carlo, Donato, Hassel Anke, Höpner Martin (2023). "Germany’s coordinated policy response to the energy crisis: shielding the export-led model at all costs". LUHNIP Working Paper Series 1/2023. Rome: Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy and Economic Governance (LUHNIP). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32569.34400
Di Carlo, Donato (2021). "Regulation & delegation: public sector wage-setting systems and the two models of state-led wage restraint in Western Europe", Working Paper, EUI MWP, 2021/02. Available at link
Bremer, Björn, Donato Di Carlo, and Leon Wansleben (2021). "The constrained politics of local public investments under cooperative federalism". MPIfG Discussion Paper, No. 21/4. Available at link
Di Carlo, Donato (2018). "Does Pattern Bargaining Explain Wage Restraint in the German Public Sector?", MPIfG Discussion Paper 18/3. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2018. Available at link
