Grace Ballor

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Grace Ballor
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Grace Ballor studies the historical political economy of contemporary Europe, the role of business in European integration, and the evolution of global governance. She is currently Assistant Professor of International Economic History at Bocconi. Before moving to Milan, she held research fellowships at Harvard Business School, the European University Institute, and the Graduate Institute Geneva and earned her PhD at UCLA. Her book, Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market is under contract with Cambridge University Press, and she is now at work on a new project on the economic governance of risk.

Competitiveness 

How the EU Automotive Industry Survived the First Wave of Asian Competition
2024

European automakers currently face increasing pressures. While the region’s manufacturers long dominated global sales revenues, several competitors from Asia have recently moved into the top ten.  But European companies have faced similar difficulties before, and the responses of the region’s automakers and policymakers to previous challenges offer insight for the present, especially on the issues of global competition and energy transition.  

Monthly Brainstorming Session

From research to policy brief - IEP@BU monthly brainstorming sessions
07/10/2024 - 07/10/2024
Alesina Seminar Room, 5th floor, Roentgen Building
From research to policy brief - IEP@BU monthly brainstorming sessions
10/09/2024 - 10/09/2024
Common room, 2nd floor, Roentgen building

Conferences

Crisis, Risk, and European Governance
21/09/2023 - 22/09/2023
via Roentgen 1, room 4-e4-sr01

This workshop aims to bring together a diverse group of scholars working on crisis, risk, and European governance. It is motivated by questions about how crises have shaped institutions and their policies and how European institutions, in turn, imagine, anticipate, manage, and sometimes even exacerbate a wide range of challenges, from growth and climate to security and conflict.