Economics

Francesco Decarolis Wants to Preserve Competition in Digital Platforms

The Avvocato Giovanni Agnelli Associate Professor in Economics has won an ERC Grant with a project to design regulation that takes into account the original features of these markets and consumers' behavioral bias

Fiscal Expansion: Spend as if You Have to Pay It Back

Bocconi students on the seminars organized by IGIER. In the latest article of the series, Sviatoslav Tiupin reports on the work of Olivier Blanchard and John Cochrane

The Woman Who Dates European Recessions and Expansions

Antonella Trigari is one of the five members of the Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee. She will also chair the Program Committee of EEA 2021, the annual conference of the European economists

Education: Tutoring Immigrants to Do the Right Thing

Two Bocconi and one Harvard professors evaluated a counseling program capable of setting the aspirations of the best performing immigrant students at the same level of their Italian peers when it comes to choosing a high school track. Their results are to be published in Econometrica

Unveiling the Veil: A Prize to Naila Shofia

A study on the motivations behind the growing popularity of religious headscarves in Indonesia earned her the Economics Job Market Best Paper Award by Unicredit Foundation

Viruses and Digital Platforms: Bocconi Wins Two ERC Grants

Alessia Melegaro and Francesco Decarolis have obtained two ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council. One research project deals with the relationship between human behavior, vaccine hesitancy and the spread of viruses, and the other with competition on digital platforms, marking an expansion of the research fields in which Europe acknowledges Bocconi as a primary player