Decision sciences

Opening the Black Box

Bocconi professors Sandra Fortini and Sonia Petrone propose a new methodology to shed light on black box algorithms by using the predictive approach that is typical of Bayesian statistics

Research Supports the Case for Inclusion

Bocconi endorses the International Day of People with Disabilities

At Least 500 COVID Cases in Lombardy Before Patient 1

Alessia Melegaro, Raffaella Piccarreta and Filippo Trentini among the authors of a study, in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler, that sheds light on the rapid spread of the virus between February and March 2020

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

Crypto Is Far More Than Currencies

New Bocconi Professor Alon Rosen studies the interplay of computational complexity and cryptography, and is the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant on these topics

Tommaso Rigon Awarded for His PhD Dissertation

The PhD alumnus obtained the prestigious Savage Award 2020 for his doctoral dissertation in Bayesian statistics