Giuseppe Montalbano

• Ph.D.
• PostDoc Position at University of Luxembourg

One of the main enabling reforms included in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan is that of competition. In this regard, past pro-competitive attempts have usually disappointed expectations , above all due to the counter-mobilization of very powerful interest groups, able to act as veto-players in the policy process. This article seek...

Are there common features among housing market and policy trends across countries? How can they be classified and compared? A relevant stream in the literature answered these questions by developing the concept of “housing regimes” as a tool to investigate similarities and differences across countries in the housing sphere. Yet, the ways in which t...

This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the past, present, and future of the European Economic and Monetary Union in its broader context. It incorporates economic, legal and political science perspectives to provide an in-depth and forward-looking scrutiny of the rationales, the main features and the shortcomings of the economic, monetar...

This article focuses on how the 20 main Italian interest groups evaluated the contents of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). In comparing its two versions (Conte Draft and Draghi Plan), we want to understand whether the change of government impacted on the contents of the NRRP and, in turn, on interest groups' preference atta...

This contribution provides a comprehensive and systematic review of the main debates and empirical evidence of interest groups’ lobbying in Italy. The insufficient academic attention on interest groups in Italy mirrors the enduring lack of a public regulatory framework of lobbying. The main legislative projects and sparse policy outcomes are review...

This contribution provides a comprehensive and systematic review of the main debates and empirical evidence of interest groups’ lobbying in Italy. The insufficient academic attention on interest groups in Italy mirrors the enduring lack of a public regulatory framework of lobbying. The main legislative projects and sparse policy outcomes are review...

This contribution investigates the conditions and dynamics of a public-private regulatory partnership in the making of the Capital Markets Union. According to our argument, structural interdependence and the strategic use of market narratives in a low salient policy domain allowed the EU financial industry to frame their interests as a solution to...

This essay intends to offer an alternative interpretation of Germany's role in the European crisis, based on a critical approach to international hegemony. Beyond the assumptions of the realist and liberal models, in fact, an analysis inspired by neo-Gramscian literature allows us to reset the problem of hegemony in analytically more complex and th...

The so-called «Recovery Fund» represented a perhaps unrepeatable opportunity for Italian interest groups to see their own requests transformed into public policies. This article focuses on how the most important organized interests mobilized and contributed to the public debate on the Recovery Fund by attempting to answer three main research questi...

Over the past few months, (very) much of the Italian public debate dealt with two closely related issues: the COVID-19 pandemic and the policy instruments at disposal to national and supranational political actors to mitigate its consequences, especially from a socioeconomic point of view. On this, the main political tool was the so-called 'Next Ge...

As many commentators highlighted, a distinguishing feature of Arrighi’s notion of hegemony lays in its Gramscian background. However, an in-depth analysis of the uses and problems of the Gramscian concept of hegemony in the work of Arrighi is still missing. The aim of this contribution is thus to fill this gap, by showing how the interpretation and...

The so-called Amsterdam School has been a pioneer in developing a theoretical framework for the transnational class dimension of the hegemonic world orders based on Gramscian core concepts and motives. Surprisingly, however, a dedicated analysis and assessment of the use of Gramsci’s key concepts by the School of Amsterdam still lack in the availab...

This chapter defines the structural, organizational, and issue salience dimensions of our analytical framework in the context of global financial turmoil and the ensuing Eurozone crisis. It provides the essential coordinates for analyzing the case studies, by elucidating the overall structural conditions, competitive patterns, lobbying resources, a...

This chapter analyzes the creation of the EU crisis management framework, from the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive to the ensuing establishment of the Single Resolution Mechanism and Fund. Contrary to the Banking Union’s initial project, it soon appeared clear that the Single Supervisory Mechanism would not represent the very premise for a c...

This chapter reconstructs the banking industry positions, coalition making, and influence in the reform of banking supervision, from the creation of the European Banking Authority to the implementation of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. It is argued here that the European cross-border banks rode the wave of the post-crisis reform agenda to push f...

This chapter focuses on the reform on the separation of deposit-taking from variously trading-related activities. The reform project questioned a grounding pillar of the modern “market-based” banking system, representing a fundamental threat to the European financial industry. Moreover, the issue attracted a relevant degree of salience in the Europ...

This chapter introduces an original critical IPE (International Political Economy) theoretical framework in the analysis of the EU interest groups’ lobbying. First, it offers a review of the literature on the EU post-crisis financial regulation and corporate influence, discussing its merits and shortcomings. A critical transnationalist approach is...

This chapter deals with the harmonization of the deposit guarantee schemes and the plans for a pan-European deposit insurance system as the third pillar of the Banking Union still unachieved at the time of writing. In this case, the diverging banks’ risk profiles and deposit guarantee models along domestic lines structurally prevented the European...

This chapter traces the banking industry’s role in the reform of the EU’s prudential requirements as the basis of a single European rule book for banks underpinning the Banking Union, from the Regulation and Directive on capital requirements (CRR and CRD IV), up to their recent revisions under the “Banking Package.” The European banking industry un...

This book investigates the role of banking interest groups and lobbying in the making of the European Banking Union. Facing the politicization of financial regulation in the wake of the crisis, core players of the European banking industry managed to adapt and re-orient their lobbying resources and strategies to influence the reform process. This w...

According to most of the literature available so far, international and European cross-border banks and investments firms are considered the primary beneficiaries of the CMU and related revitalization of securitization. Nevertheless, an in-depth analysis of the transnational financial industry lobbying and influence, in the light of the final agree...

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This chapter investigates the various factors that enable competing corporate and non-corporate organized interests to gain access to the European Commission’s policy-definition venues. It hypothesizes that, while economic relevance and lobbying resources ensure privileged access for business representatives at large, and in particular for the larg...

In this contribution I will test the geopolitical-economic approach as formulated by Desai (2013) in the analysis of the EU's regulatory response to the financial crisis by focusing on two relevant pieces of legislation in the post-crisis reform of banking governance: the adaptation of the Basel III agreement to the package on Capital requirements,...