Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna since 2024, she carries out her research in the field of International and European Political Economy. Research interests are aimed in particular at examining the political factors that explain the choice of economic policies and institutions, such as the policies adopted by central banks and their independence. She currently focuses on the topic of state interventions in market economies in the European Union and in a comparative perspective, the compatibility of these interventions with the globalization process, and the political factors that explain the choice of distinctive industrial policy interventions.
Education
Graduated in Political Science from the University of Catania in 2002, she obtained a PhD from the University of Trento in 2008.
Academic career
After a few years of post-doctoral research at the University of Trento and Bologna (where she received the 'Nino Andreatta Fellowship'), in 2011 she became lecturer in Political Science at the University of Turin. In 2015 she became an associate professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. Since February 2024 she has been a full professor at the University of Bologna.
Scientific activity and participation to public debate
She participated to numerous national and international research projects including: Unconventional Central Banks Project: Making Monetary Policy in Hard Times (MIUR, Scientific Independence Research, SIR 2015) and Monitoring National Economies Project (Compagnia di San Paolo, 2012) as principal investigator.
Visiting professor at George Washington University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Copenhagen Business School and Johns Hopkins University.
Senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canada from 2013-2017. Since 2020, she has been serving as an expert for the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE, Warsaw) and as a fellow for Chatman House (London), 'Europe programme'.
Referee of international and Italian journals in the field of political and social sciences.
Author of several policy reports and opinions for the European Parliament and contributions for Handelsblatt, Chatham House, VoxEU and Phenomenal World
Scientific and editorial committees
Since 2023 she is one of the editors of the Review of International Political Economy journal.
Currently member of the editorial staff of the Italian Political Science Review and Stato e Mercato.
Since 2020 she has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Awards and recognitions
2012 - Award for the best book on political science published in the period 2010-2012 awarded by the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP) for a member "under forty".
2009 – Short-listed candidate “Jean Blondel Prize” for the best doctoral thesis in political science (European Consortium for Political Research, ECPR).
Recent publications
M. Moschella (2024), Unexpected revolutionaries. How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy, Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
M. Moschella, L. Quaglia and A. Spendzharova, eds (2023) European Political Economy. Theoretical Approaches and Policy Issues. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Policy analyses and reports
Study requested by the European Parliament, ECON Committee,”Inflation dynamics and monetary policy in the euro area and the US”, with Davide Romelli, Monetary Dialogue Papers November
Study requested by European Parliament, ECON Committee, “Managing global monetary spillovers. How the Fed's interest rate hikes and uncoordinated tightening affect the euro area” with Palma Polyak, Monetary Dialogue Papers November 2022
Policy report for Chatham House, “The economic basis of democracy in Europe”, with P. Bergsen, H. Kundnani, m. Krahè, L. Downey, Q. Slobodian, September 2022,
Study requested by European Parliament, ECON Committee, “ECB communication and its post-pandemic challenges.” With Davide Romelli, Monetary Dialogue Papers, February 2022
Study requested by European Parliament, ECON Committee, “What role for the European Semester in the recovery plan?” In-depth analysis, ECON Committee IPOL_IDA (2020) 651377
