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Bocconi, Inaugurated the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Visiting Professorship, Funded by the ECB

, by Tomaso Eridani
In the presence of Mario Draghi, ECB President, Bocconi launched the professorship which will bring every year an outstanding international scholar. Assigned this year to Alberto Alesina

The Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Visiting Professorship was inaugurated today in Bocconi in occasion of the Opening Ceremony of the 2012-2013 Academic Year, in the presence of Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank. The professorship is funded by the ECB in memory of one of the most illustrious alumni of Bocconi, among the founding fathers of the Euro and member of the Executive Board of the ECB from 1998 to 2005.

The ECB funds the professorship for five years with the aim of bringing each year to Bocconi an outstanding international scholar to pursue activity of study, research and teaching linked to the theme of economics and European monetary policy. The ECB contributes to this aim with an annual donation of 30,000 euro.

For the academic year 2012-13 the professorship has been assigned to Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics at Harvard University, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and fellow of IGIER Bocconi, the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research.

With the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Visiting Professorship Bocconi and the ECB will honor the memory of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, to whom in 1990 was conferred the Alumnus of the Year award, and by that recognize his intellectual contribution to the development of Economic and Monetary Union.



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