Donato di Carlo
Donato di Carlo – Assistant Professor in Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and the founder/director of the Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy and Economic Governance (LUHNIP). He holds a PhD in European Political Economy from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne. Before joining Luiss, he […]
Cigna, L., D. Di Carlo, and N. Durazzi. 2025. “The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition: Economic Specializations and Skills Regimes in Europe.” Regulation & Governance 1–16.
Abstract: The green transition is fundamentally transforming contemporary economies and societies. This article investigates how European models of capitalism perform and specialize across the green value chain—conceptualized as innovation, manufacturing, services, and deployment—and how national skill formation systems underpin these specializations. Integrating insights from comparative capitalism literatures with descriptive statistics and principal component analysis (PCA), […]
Di Carlo, D., Eisl A. and Zurstrassen, D. “Together we trade, divided we aid: Mapping the flexibilization of the EU state aid regime across GBER, IPCEIs and Temporary Frameworks”, Policy Paper N°307, Jacques Delors Institute, November 2024
This joint JDI-LUHNIP Policy Paper addresses the pressing issue of fragmentation within the EU Single Market resulting from the growing use of state aid by Member States. It provides an in-depth analysis of three key domains of the EU state aid regime, namely aid under the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER), aid for Important Projects […]
Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policyand Economic Governance (LUHNIP). EU Industrial Policy Report 2024. Coordinator: Donato Di Carlo
The EU Industrial Policy Report 2024 by the Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy and Economic Governance (LUHNIP) is presented at a time when the EuropeanUnion (EU) navigates an era marked by profound geopolitical shifts, socioeconomic transformations, and environmental imperatives. In recent years, geoeconomic competition by China and the United States has put the European […]
Di Carlo, D., & Schmitz, L. (2023). Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market. Journal of European Public Policy, 30(10), 2063–2096.
Abstract: Within Europe’s regulatory state, industrial policy has largely remained within national governments’ remit. Yet, a plethora of new supra- and cross-national industrial policy initiatives have recently emerged whereby the Commission proactively engages in pan-European activities to foster innovation and economic development. This article brings the ‘Developmental Network States’ (DNS) literature into dialogue with EU […]