Economics

Two new signings and a project which follows a professor from Barcelona to Milan

Modeling systemic risk as a pollution issue, Masciandaro, in a paper with Passarelli, shows how regulation affects only the owners of big, highrisk portfolios, while taxation affects also the majority of small portfolio owners

Pierpaolo Battigalli offers a new theoretical analysis of strategic reasoning based on the so called equot;forward induction principleequot; and explains why the effectiveness of unexpected moves depends on the social context, in an article written with Amanda Friedenberg

Labour markets are influenced by cultural traits, Giavazzi finds out in a paper with Schiantarelli and Serafinelli, which doesn't play down the importance of policies and institutions

Tommaso Nannicini uses a state-of-the-art statistica methodology to highlight the economic benefits of liberalizations, in a forthcoming article written with Andreas Billmeier

She comes from University of Minnesota