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The Institute for International Economics reaches an important goal: 70 years since its foundation.
The Institute for International Economics is a centre for economic studies and researches.
When it was founded in 1946 its main task was to analyze and study the many important issues concerning international trade and its recovery, which – soon after the II world war – was intended as characterized by a new and open trade system. The Institute was also committed in the organization of conferences and meetings.
After 70 years the Institute is still involved in all these activities, whose heart is undoubtedly the publication – since 1948 – of the review Economia Internazionale/International Economics which starting from no. 1 February 2016 will be online and open access.
The Institute was born in 1945 on the initiative of the Chamber of Commerce, then led by President Francesco Manzitti, and of the University of Genoa. The Institute officially opened on 4th November 1946 in front of the President of Italian Republic, Enrico de Nicola, and the highest political and economics authorities of the country.
The Institute has always been involved in the organization of important events like the International congress of parliamentarians and experts for the development of international trade in 1948. This Congress was attended by almost thousand delegates and experts from 50 countries. After the devastation of II World War this international conference represented a fundamental opportunity for debates and exchange of ideas on issues concerning international trade and its recovery, to be inspired to a new trading system able to reduce economic imbalances among countries.
In the following years, the Institute went on promoting and organizing international meetings and conferences of prominent scholars or important personalities of the economic world, as Wilhelm Röpke (1963), Ota Sik (1971), John Kenneth Galbraith (1972), until Mario Monti (2005).
In 2008 the Permanent Observatory of Southern Mediterranean Economies was set up as a tool with scientific and operational value in the business community. From 2008 to 2014 the results of the Observatory research work were introduced during the annual conferences of the Institute.
The event organized by the Institute in 2015 had corruption and its repercussions on the international economy as its topics.
During 2016 on occasion of the 70th anniversary since its foundation, the Institute for International Economics organized four celebratory events starting in February with an historical conference in remembrance of Bruno Minoletti, to then address more recent issues such as the Mediterranean and Middle East regions, the causes and consequences of civil wars, and lastly end with a discussion panel on 13 October 2016 during which the annual Chamber of Commerce Prize Award took place.
The 2017 annual meeting of the Institute for International Economics - “The future of Europe. Economic and social perspectives” - was opened by Cardinal Bagnasco, the Bishop of Genova and President of European Episcopal conferences, who delivered the initial speech.