Research

How Visual Salience Can Help Predict Economic Decisions

Bocconi students report on seminars organized by the IGIER research center. In the first instalment of the series, Massimiliano Pozzi on the work of Colin Camerer, Caltech

Labor Policy, the Real Trump Agenda Has Yet to Start

The President's moves are generally anti labor and specifically anti Obama, according to Davide Zecca's analysis

How Trump is Changing the Country's Legal Culture

The US President is appointing likeminded ideologues to federal agencies and courts. His next target will be abortion, says Graziella Romeo

President and Congress, a Difficult Relationship

Facing a polarized Congress, Trump governs via executive orders and regulatory adjustments, not legislation, according to an analysis by Franco Ferrari

The Midwest Will Decide the Presidential Battle

Giuseppe Berta portraits Detroit, once booming Motown today deindustrialized and dilapidated but set in a state, Michigan, which is crucial for the presidential race

How Dissatisfied Customers and Short Sellers Can Break a Company

New research by Anatoli Colicev finds an unexpected link between marketing and finance: investor behavior of short sellers, who buy private data on customer dissatisfaction and satisfaction in order to choose or avoid targets. Interestingly, the negative effect of dissatisfaction is 2.39 times larger than the positive effect of satisfaction