Lucio Baccaro is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne since 2018 and an Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva. Previously, he held university appointments at Case Western Reserve University (1998-2000), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006-2008), and the University of Geneva (2009-2018) and was a senior research officer at the International Institute for Labour Studies of the International Labour Organization (ILO) (2000-2005).

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Baccaro is a political economist whose research currently focuses on "growth models," a new perspective on comparative capitalism he contributed to elaborating. Research on growth models covers several areas such as the analysis of common trends and national specificities in the way countries grow or stagnate; the politics of different growth models; the relationship between national and international economic conditions; and the way country differences in growth models condition the prospect for reform of the Eurozone (see HERE for an overview of different projects.)  Previously, he worked on the comparative political economy of industrial relations and labor markets and on the empirical outcomes of deliberative policy-making. He is the co-author of "Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation: European Industrial Relations since the 1970s" (with Chris Howell, Cambridge University Press, 2017) and co-editor of "Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation, Oxford University Press, 2022). He is the author or coauthor of numerous peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in Political Science, Sociology, Industrial Relations and institutional Economics journals.