Ileana Steccolini, a CIMA Grant to Study Governmental Resilience

Ileana Steccolini (Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management and SDA Bocconi) has obtained a grant from CIMA - Chartered Institute of Management Accountants to carry on her research project "Governmental Financial Resilience under Austerity", which investigates the financial resilience of governments within a context of crisis and austerity – such as the present one - that poses unprecedented challenges, trying to identify the patterns of financial behaviour.

The project, besides Steccolini in the role of principal investigator, also involves two other SDA professors, Carmen Barbera and Enrico Guarini, and Martin Jones from Nottingham Business School.

"The importance of the funding", Steccolini explains, "lies not so much in its amount, as in the prestige of the institution which grants it". The CIMA, indeed, with over 200,000 members and students from 173 countries, is the world's largest and leading professional body of management accountants.