25 May 2020 Economics Research, Bocconi in the European Top 5 In the Tilburg University ranking of the best universities for scientific performance in economics research, Bocconi is 4th in Europe, 1st in continental Europe, and 18th in the world
22 May 2020 COVID Has Slashed Life Expectancy in Lombardy Two Bocconi scholars consider the decline in life expectancy at local level to be the most reliable measure of the human cost of the epidemic. The province of Bergamo lost 8 years for men and 5.8 years for women
19 May 2020 Statistics Shows That Early Lockdown Measures Are Our Best Weapons Against Covid New study by Lu and Borgonovo, using sensitivity analysis techniques, demonstrates that policy variables are much more relevant than the intrinsic features of the pandemic in containing the number of infectious
29 May 2020 Why Equity Markets Go Up (Yes, Up) When There Is an Official COVID Announcement Croce, Farroni and Wolfskeil analyze the relationship between the diffusion of pandemic information and market trends and provide a predictive tool based on Twitter, useful to avoid being caught unprepared again by a financial collapse of this kind
04 Jun 2020 Research Integrity: Why We Should Trust Registered Clinical Trials New research finds reassuring evidence about the integrity of clinical trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, with some concerns only regarding small pharma companies
11 May 2020 Why the Helicopter Money Idea Is Destined to Fly Away Donato Masciandaro shows that an optimal helicopter money policy would be possible, but its distributional effects make it unlikely to happen in Europe. And the recent judgement of the German Constitutional Court makes it even less likely, the author comments