Economics

Gianmarco Ottaviano, a Scholar of Migrations Returns to Italy

Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Ottaviano graduated at Bocconi and has been a Professor here between 2001 and 2002 and between 2008 and 2011. He leaves the London School of Economics

Field Experiment Finds a Simple Change that Could Boost Agricultural Productivity by 60%

Agricultural output in developing countries would dramatically benefit from changing the terms of crop sharing contracts to leave 75% of the crop to tenants instead of 50%, according to a study by Bocconi's Selim Gulesci and colleagues

From Florence to San Francisco: Good Institutions Attract Creative People

Guido Tabellini describes the relationship between cities and intellectual talent from the ninth to the nineteenth century

How Important Are School Curricula for a Country's Development? Very

A research project by Mara Squicciarini wins the Young Italian Economist Award 2018

Culture and Demographics: What We Can Learn from Jewish History

A study by Maristella Botticini and colleagues analyzes the demographic trend of the Jewish population in Europe from the 1500s to the 30s of the last century

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