Miriam L. Campanella
Email: miriam.campanella@unito.it
Office: +39 01 19 60 91 36
Areas of Expertise: European Union Eurozone Crisis Far-East North-America WTO and Globalisation
Miriam L. Campanella was a Senior Fellow at ECIPE. She passed away in January 2021 after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in 2020. She was former Jean Monnet professor at the University of Turin. Between 1980 and 1994, Professor Campanella was based at the MIT Centre for International Studies, where she conducted research on general system theories and the economics of complex systems. In 2001, she was appointed at the Cabinet of Minister’s of Economy and Finance in Rome. In 2008 she returned to the University, where she began a research program on the geo-political shift to the East, as well as the unconventional monetary policies of Western central banks.
In parallel to her research activities, Professor Campanella has taught in Europe and in the USA. With a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Jean Monnet chair at the University of Turin, she taught courses on the EMU; these were in English and designed for Erasmus students.
Since joining ECIPE, she has published several papers on China’s monetary and financial policy, and in particular focused on the internationalization of the Renminbi, the usage of Forex reserves, and core-emerging central banks new dynamics. Additionally, she is extensively involved in the international scientific community, and has participated in the ISA conventions and worked with both the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and Shanghai Research Development Foundation.
She is regularly interviewed and contributes to several media outlets including the East Asia Forum, Caixin (English and Chinese Editions), the China Policy Institute, the Eurasia Journal, the EU Bulletin, and the North Africa Post.
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Financial Repression and the Debt Build-up in China: Is There a Way Out?
China’s old recipe book for economic success, based on market distorting policies, is hindering the process toward a market-driven economy and the chance of being granted Market Economy Status (MES). The consequences of policy passivity may derail China into the middle income trap and pose severe uncertainty to global markets. As China’s debt keeps mounting, particularly due to financial repression, mere domestic monetary reform may not be enough and may...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Turning China’s Money Reserves into Capital
Some economies in East Asia have built up large amounts of foreign exchange reserves in the past decades. Holding large amounts of reserves helped these economies to stabilize their macro economy and exchange rates under periods of market stress and rapid shifts in relative economic size. Generally, it has been a strategy to provide a defence against external shocks with damaging consequences for exports. Rules aimed at limiting foreign reserves, in order to...
ECIPE Working Papers
The Internationalization of the Renminbi and the Rise of a Multipolar Currency System
The dollar’s steady depreciation has had little impact on the official reserves of central banks. As scholars of the international monetary system debate whether the dollar can continue to play the dominant role in the international monetary system, actual developments in exchange relations already give reason to expect that the world’s currency regime is changing. Recent measures taken by China to internationalize its renminbi, including several bilateral swap...
Media Mention
Going global 2017
Miriam L Campanella in Going Global 2017. Trends and implications in the internationalisation of China’s...
Media Mention
Advanced Central Banks’ Spillovers, and the Periphery’s Spillbacks
In the article the spillbacks that EM central banks generate on the US-T Bonds, and the German Bund test the resilience of the current monetary...
Article
Finance Under Stress: US Decouples as China Opens-Up
Miriam Campanella writes about the consequences of the Trump administration's decoupling of China from the international financial...
Article
The Shift to East: China, US Dollar, and the New Multipolar World
Miriam L. Campanella argues that the controversial trade policy initiated by Trump’s Administration, aimed at shrinking imports and relaunching...
Article
In Eurasia New Financial Centers Are In Offing: Is Shanghai Ready For Prime-Time? – OpEd
Miriam Campanella sheds light on some fresh developments in Eurasia, where the re-emergence of new financial centers, from Frankfurt, Paris,...
Article
Is a volatile yuan good for China?
Miriam L. Campanela writes about a more volatile yuan vis-à-vis Asian partners’ currencies as Chinese authorities revealed they would introduce a...
Book or Paper
The COVID-19 Symmetric Shock, and Its Asymmetric Consequences
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is opening a period of policy uncertainties upon all us. The upcoming massive recession presents critical...
Book or Paper
Far-Reaching Consequences of U.S. Financial Sanctions. The Dollar Shortage and the “Triffin Moment”
Miriam L. Campanella discusses the US financial sanctions and the consequences of disconnection from the dollar capital markets in Robert Triffin...
Book or Paper
The Changing Geography of Finance. Shifting Financial Flows and New Hubs: Shanghai and Paris?
A new publication by Miriam Campanella on the recovery of the global economy and cross-border capital...
Book or Paper
UMPs’ Spillovers, and the Periphery’s Spillbacks
SSRN has published Miriam L. Campanella paper on UM's spillovers and reverse spillbacks, which hint to new dynamics in monetary...
Speech or Presentation
The US proprietary usage of the dollar financial infrastructures is here to stay. What then for the Euro and the RMB: appeasing, circumventing, or doubling down?
Miriam L. Campanella presentation for the 2019 Shanghai Symposium on Global Finance "The Paradigm Shifts In Global...
Speech or Presentation
Leveraging FX Reserves, Spillbacks, and the Prospective Role of the RMB
Miriam Campanella’s presentation on spillover-spillback dynamics, game-changer of the current monetary regime at the SRDF Symposium (4-5 September...
Speech or Presentation
A market-based RMB. What does it mean for China and the international economy?
Miriam Campanella’s presentation at Afternoon Seminar: Economic Reform and Currency Policy in China - More Turbulence...