Research

IGIER Visiting Student Tanvi Goyal reports on the seminar by Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University): heavy bond issuers are likely to be heavy emitters

Understanding the biases that sneak into the decision making process can help companies make smarter choices about which innovations to fund, according to new research by Thorsten Grohsjean and colleagues

Luisa Gagliardi and Myriam Mariani, using a natural experiment, find that leadership can be learned via the exposure to early life, inclusive, leadership enhancing opportunities, most of all education

Gender pay gap is common to all European countries, but one size fits all policies are not always effective. A report by three Bocconi researchers, commissioned by the European Parliament, provides an indepth analysis and recommendations to eliminate pay inequalities

Alessia Melegaro, Raffaella Piccarreta and Filippo Trentini among the authors of a study, in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler, that sheds light on the rapid spread of the virus between February and March 2020

Three Bocconi professors, in a paper newly published in PNAS, find another piece of evidence on the effects of economic distress on the rise of populist parties. Voters react to automation in the same way they react to globalization and to import competition from China