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Marco Molteni is a financial historian at the Geneva Graduate Institute and affiliated with the History Faculty of the University of Oxford. He specialises in both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Marco's main areas of expertise are financial history and Italian economic history. Marco completed his DPhil in September 2021 in Economic and Social History at Pembroke College (Oxford) and wrote his thesis on banking failures and crisis management policies in Fascist Italy (1926-1936), reconstructing the story of what happened using the banking supervision archives at the Bank of Italy, where he spent a semester as visiting guest researcher at the Economic History Division. He then was a Post-Doctoral Researcher - Data Analysis on the ERC funded Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 project at the University of Oxford. Previous to this he studied at the University of Milan (BA in History) and at Warwick University (PG Diploma in Economics). His research is published in international journals like Business History, Economic History Review, Cliometrica, and European Review of Economic History.