GRACE BALLOR
Courses a.y. 2022/2023
30372 GLOBAL HISTORY
30573 HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
Biographical note
I am currently Assistant Professor of International & Economic History. Before joining Bocconi, I held research posts at Harvard Business School, the European University Institute, and the Graduate Institute Geneva. I earned my PhD at UCLA.
My research examines the international political economy of contemporary Europe, the international influence of economic actors, and the intersections of global capitalism and global governance. The monograph I am now finishing with Cambridge University Press, titled Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market, reconstructs the history of regional market integration through the lens of European corporations. My writing on these themes has also been published in journals including American Historical Review, Business & Politics, Business History, Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, and Relations internationales.
At Bocconi, I co-direct the research stream on Economic & Monetary Integration at the Bocconi Lab for European Studies, and I am a member of the Dondena Research Center. I am also Associate Fellow at the Centre for Business, Human Rights, and the Environment at Nova Law School in Lisbon.
Selected Publications
Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–1999
BUSINESS HISTORY, Forthcoming
Capitalism and global governance in business history: a roundtable discussion
HBS Working Paper No. 22-081, 2022
The CE marking, business, and European market integration
BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW, Vol. 96, no. 3, 2022
Multinational firms and the politics of international trade in multidisciplinary perspective
BUSINESS AND POLITICS, Vol. 22, no. 4: 573-586, 2020
Agents of integration: multinational firms and the European Union
ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY, Vol. 21, no. 4: 886-892, 2020
« Du « défi américain » à l’expansion européenne : les relations économiques transatlantiques des années 1950 aux années 1970 » / From the “American Challenge” to European expansion: Transatlantic economic relations from the 1950s to t...
RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES, vol. 180 (4): 43-57, 2019