Research

Frankfurt on Steroids: How European Court of Justice's Decisions Are Empowering the ECB as a Supervisor

Filippo Annunziata, in a comment on a landmark decision, displays the ECJ's trend to interpret European regulations in an evolutionary way, that's strengthening the position of the Central Bank in banking supervision

New Sanitation System Can Half Healthcare Associated Infections and Reduce Related Costs by 75%

Bocconi University scholars calculated the savings produced by a sanitation methods that uses ecologically sustainable detergents containing spores of three Bacillus species, in a study on antimicrobial resistance in five Italian hospitals

Women in Parliament Save Lives. Scores of Them

According to a study published in Demography and coauthored by a Bocconi doctoral student, when female representation in lesser developed and weak democratic countries rises from less than 10% to over 30%, child mortality is cut by 50% and maternal mortality by 80%

Education and Skill Mismatch: Why in Italy We Make the Wrong Training Choices

The results of the third year of the New Skills at Work project by J.P. Morgan and Bocconi highlight that education choices are crucial and are too often determined by shortterm considerations. In previous years, the lack of correspondence between qualifications and competences had already emerged

Songs Featuring Guest Artists: Why They Are More Successful

Andrea Ordanini, Joseph Nunes and Anastasia Nanni analyze the phenomenon as a case of cobranding: the features with the best commercial results are temporary projects and bring together artists of very different genres

How to Create Health Care Centaurs, Half Doctors and Half Managers

Organizational support, more than professionals' attitude, is the fundamental element for the success of the process of managerialization of hospital doctors, according to a study by Marco Sartirana and colleagues