Economics

The Importance of Reputation in Public Contract Bids

How much influence should past performance have? A working paper by Francesco Decarolis takes a look

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