Finance

A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank

IGIER Visiting Student Simone Boldrini reports on a seminar by Massimo Rostagno (ECB), coauthor of Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis

Science Skepticism Made Lockdown Measures Less Effective

Valentin Kecht, now a PhD student at Bonn, coauthored a paper published in Nature Human Behaviour when he was a MSc student and a IGIER Visiting Student at Bocconi

Digital Money: If You Can't Create It Anonymous, You Need to Offer a Yield

People, and especially the risk prone, prefer anonymous means of payment, but banks and central banks could successfully issue digital money trading anonymity for a return, experiments suggest

A Quick but Effective Fix

Brunella Bruno and Filippo De Marco, upon request of the European Parliament, show that the quick fix measures to support the banking system during the pandemic have been used extensively, potentially providing credit to the real economy

How New Technology Stimulated the Credit Supply in Africa

Nicola Limodio obtained a research grant from PEDL to understand the consequences that the adoption of new technology has brought to the financial market in a low income country

Why a PhD at Bocconi is Worth it

Bocconi PhD candidates, on average, tend to realize their career goals. Bocconi PhD Day is the chance to understand what Bocconi PhD School has to offer