1. Public Expenditure and State Development in Early Renaissance Western Europe: A Comparative Study of the Iberian Peninsula (Ca. 1350-1500) • Rodrigo Dominguez, The University of Utah; Federico Gálvez Gambero, University of Málaga.

2. Limiting Uncertainty: State Capacity and the Institutional Foundations of Nordic Welfare States • Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki; Jeremy Land, University of Helsinki; Lars Christian Bruno, Norwegian Business School; Henric Häggqvist, Uppsala University.

3. Top-down or Bottom-up? What the Cassa Del Mezzogiorno Reveals about Industrial Policy Design • Marie Ciampi, Sapienza University of Rome; Augusto Cerqua, "Sapienza", University of Rome; Guido Pellegrini, Sapienza University of Rome.