Network Analysis for Economic, Business and Financial History Methodological Advances and Applications

Maria Carmela Schisani   is Professor of Economic History at the University of Naples Federico II.  She is affiliated researcher with the ISEM and ISMed institutes of the National Research Council (CNR). Her research interests focus mainly on financial and business history. She also specializes in network analysis applied to historical economic and financial data. She is author of several publications, some of them in high-impact international scientific journals such as Cliometrica, European Review of Economic History and Business History.   Giuseppe De Luca  (Italy) is Professor of Economic History at the University of Milan and Director of the Bachelor’s programme in Economics and Management. He is Associated Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Mediterranean Europe History (ISEM). His research focuses on pre-industrial public debt, the role of notaries in lending markets, and the historical development of infrastructure and healthcare financing in Europe. He has led several major international research projects, including A-RING (2019–2022), and is co-editor of the journal Cheiron.   Giancarlo Ragozini  is Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Political Science, University of Naples Federico II. His research interests range from statistical methods for social network analysis to computational statistics and multivariate methods for data analysis, sport analytics, quantitative history, life course studies. He is author of over 150 publications (72 in Scopus), many of them in high-impact international scientific journals such as Social Network, Network Science, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Cliometrica, European Review of Economic History and Business History.   Paolo Cimadomo  (Italy/USA) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fellow at Sapienza University of Rome, heading the EARTH (Earthquakes And Community Resilience Through Historical Analysis) project. He has held research positions at institutions like the University of Naples “Federico II”, the University of Haifa, Georgetown University in Washington DC and the University Sapienza of Rome. Cimadomo has also contributed to museum initiatives and possesses teaching experience at several universities. His research centers on the Eastern Mediterranean through Greek, Roman, and Late Roman periods, with focuses on network reconstruction, land use, climate influences, and environment-human interactions. Since 2019, he has applied social network analysis to studying the ancient past.