Finance

The Young Perceive Higher COVID Risk than the Old. And Are More Cautious

A survey of over 1,500 Americans conducted by scholars from Bocconi, Harvard and Oxford shows that young people assess COVID mortality for their age group 10 times higher than it is; old people 10 times lower. And their behavior is consistent with such beliefs

How to Strike the Right Balance Between Health and the Economy

Julien Sauvagnat and Basile Grassi are investigating the effect of business closures on GDP, firms' market value and COVID lethality

Bocconi Crowns 40 Research Champions

Thirty seven of them have published in the most prestigious journals in the world, three have been recognized for the impact of their studies

How to Return to Work Balancing Public Health and Economic Needs

Carlo Favero adapted a standard epidemiological model to the Italian COVID outbreak and extended it in order to consider the economic effect of the pandemic, along with Andrea Ichino and Aldo Rustichini

Hannes Wagner Wins the Michael J. Brennan Award, Runner Up

With a paper on the shareholder value of listed companies that use secret offshore vehicles in tax havens, published in The Review of Financial Studies

Alesina, Favero and Giavazzi Win the Hayek Book Prize

The book awarded by the Manhattan Institute, Austerity, explores the relationship between fiscal discipline and economic growth