01 Dec 2020 Taxing Debt to Curb Irrationality Without Reducing Economic Growth Bocconi students on the economics seminars organized by IGIER. In the fifth article of the series, Daniele Goffi reports on the work of Ivan Werning, MIT
01 Dec 2020 Math as an Adventure: The Unexpected Applications of the Optimal Transport Problem Giuseppe Savare' met the optimal transport problem twenty years ago, and since then he has witnessed its many and sometimes unexpected applications, ranging from pure mathematics to machine learning
11 Nov 2020 Why American Deterrence May Not Work In a world with many well armed and unpredictable countries, tough talk from the US is riskier than ever
23 Oct 2020 Bocconi Always in Search of Talent on the Academic Job Market Seven positions are currently open at the Departments of Economics, Finance, and Accounting and more will follow
16 Nov 2020 Big Data as Gold. A Bocconi Professor Contributes to Faster Simulators Simulators are increasingly crucial in decision making, but they can be time and memory consuming, hence they are often substituted by emulators. Emanuele Borgonovo has developed a faster emulation algorithm improving a technique pioneered by a South African statistician and mining engineer
28 Aug 2020 How Much Are Individual Choices Worth Paolo Pin highlights social mechanisms that make containment policies effective or ineffective