Giovanni Graziani

Giovanni Graziani was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., a "Laurea" with distinction (110 cum laude) at the University of Rome, with a thesis in economics ("Some short and long term problems facing the developing countries"), a Specialization diploma on "Problems of economic development" at the SVIMEZ (Rome) and two research scholarships for the London School of Economics. He has been teaching at the Italian Universities of: Rome, Calabria, Padova, Brescia and finally Parma since 1996.  He has been teaching at: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne; Toulouse Business School; Franklin College, Lugano; the European College, Parma. He was also Academic Visitor at the Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Directeur de Recherche Associé at CNRS, Paris. He has given lectures in various European and American universities including: London School of Economics and Political Science; University of Reading; University of Michigan; University of Windsor (Canada); Carleton University (Ottawa); University of Montreal; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris); Université de Paris I; Université de Sciences Sociales (Grenoble); Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva); European University Institute (Florence); Johns Hopkins University (Bologna); Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Universidad de Barcelona. In 1991 he was awarded the Italian "Saint-Vincent Economics Prize".

His research has concentrated on European economic integration, EU trade policy, monetary policy of the ECB, EU relations with neighbouring countries, international trade issues, debt problems of the developing countries, China in world trade and international economic relations of Eastern European countries.

Selected publications

"Emerging Countries: Winners and Losers in the Trade War”, 5th OEET Workshop: Trade Wars and Global Crises: The Outlook for Emerging and Advanced Countries, Torino, October 3 - 4th, 2019

“The EU protectionist response to the financial and economic crisis” in W. Andreff (ed.), La mondialisation, stade supreme du capitalisme?, Paris, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2013

What is new with the new trade policy of the European Union? in: K. Hübner (ed.), Europe, Canada and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 59-76.

“International Subcontracting in the Textile and Clothing Industry”, in Sven W. Arndt and Henryk Kierzkowski, eds., Fragmentation: New Production Patterns in the World Economy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 209-230.

“Globalization of Production in the Textile and Clothing Industry: the case of the Italian FDI and outward processing traffic with Eastern Europe” in John Zysman and Andrew Schwartz, eds., Enlarging Europe: the Industrial Foundations of a New Political Reality, Berkeley: International and Area Studies, 1998, pp. 238-254.

"Italy's manufacturing trade with Eastern Europe. Specialization patterns and possible impact of liberalization on Italian industry", in The economic interpenetration between the EU and Eastern Europe", European Economy, No. 6, European Commission of the EU, Brussels, 1995, pp. 443-482.

Gorbachev's economic strategy in the Third World. The Washington papers, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1990, 109 p.

Comecon, domination et dépendances. Paris, Maspero, 1982, 200 p.