Extension of the Domestic Stability Pact to small Italian municipalities reduced corruption by an average of 11%, but only in the absence of extraordinary European funding. Local income and the amount of municipal public services were not affected, according to an analysis by Gianmarco Daniele and Tommaso Giommoni

A new paper by scholars from Bocconi and Oxford makes sense of the strategies used by the Mafia and the Italian State throughout 55 years of struggles for keeping or tearing apart the shroud of ambiguity that surrounds the organization. The paper allows understanding how ambiguity might be used strategically by organizations to shy from public scrutiny and alerts us on how to recognize such strategies

A student in the BSc in International Economics and Finance, Caterina found a positive correlation between the closure of asylums and suicide rates of the mentally ill in Italy. This week, the European Journal of Public Health published a revised version of the study

The results of New Skills at Work, a three year project by Bocconi and JP Morgan. According to international studies, Italy pays a cost for the mismatch between available skills and market demands with a 9% penalty on wages. Better information for families could make the difference

The ERC winning project by Catherine De Vries, a new Full Professor at Bocconi's Department of Social and Political Sciences, investigates the link between economic hardship and the support for far right parties

The project, funded with euro 1.8 million, will study criminal phenomena in Italy, the Netherlands and the United States through quantitative tools and economic methodology