Davide Cantoni

I am professor of economics and economic history at the department of economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich). My research spans political economy and economic history. I have been the PI for ERC Starting Grant 716837 ("Demand for Democracy"), in which we studied determinants of anti-authoritarian political mobilization in Hong Kong. I am currently the PI for ERC Consolidator Grant 101044546 ("The City Rising"), where I aim to create a micro-level database of the residents of Munich between 1840 and 1914, and map their economic and social mobility. After studies in Mannheim and Berkeley, I graduated from Harvard in 2010, and I have been at LMU Munich since 2011. In 2019, I was awarded the Gossen Prize for the best young economist (under 45) in the German-speaking countries. I am member of the Editorial Board and of the Board of Directors of the Review of Economic Studies and associate editor at the American Economic Review.