Research - Bocconi University

A Simple yet Powerful Model for Irrigation Water Consumption

Bocconi professor Emanuele Borgonovo and his coauthors show that the water demand for agricultural irrigation can be modelled as a function of irrigated areas alone, matching the results of much more complex models

Thinking Critically in a World of Fake News and Social Media

In a world of hypercommunication, learning to think critically is fundamental today for anyone wishing to make thoughtful choices. an excerpt from the book Critical Thinking, by Canale, Tuzet, Ciuni, and Frigerio

Rethinking Health Beyond Healthcare: A New Strategy for the Post Pandemic World

The Report of the PanEuropean Commission on Health and Sustainable Development, chaired by Mario Monti, calls for a disruptive change in the way we think about health, two scholarly comments argue

Green Technologies and Policies at MeetMeTonight

This is the topic of Matteo Di Castelnuovo's talk at the European Researchers' Night, Friday 24 September

Financial Reporting Is More Reliable if a Firm Is Named After Its Founder

A study of 2,121 large Italian private firms highlights that eponymous firms have higher financial reporting quality. All the more so if the name is rare or the firm has high visibility in the press

After the Pandemic, Infrastructure Investment Changed, but Did not Plummet

The results of the third year of the Antin IP Associate Professorship of Infrastructure Finance research program have been released yesterday