Sara Negrelli Returns to Bocconi from New York. And She Is Eager to Start Teaching

THE NEW ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COMES FROM STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Sara Negrelli earned her BA and MA degrees in Economics and Social Sciences at Università Bocconi. Afterwards, she completed her PhD in economics at Stern School of Business, New York University, where she started teaching: “Since the very beginning of my PhD I have worked hard on the teaching experience” says Negrelli, who was Teching Assistant of an MBA course and head of the teaching assistants of the undergraduate course of microeconomics at NYU Stern. “Teaching complex topics in an intuitive way is very challenging, especially with students who have totally different backgrounds and constantly surprise you with their questions: I have often found myself looking at the subjects covered from a completely different angle.” In September, Negrelli will join the Department of Economics as an Adjunct Professor for the undergraduate courses in macroeconomics and microeconomics.

Negrelli’s research is centered on epistemic game theory and on applied microeconomics. In particular, she studies how prior beliefs and the uncertainty about the beliefs of others influence agents’ strategies and, thus, equilibria. In a recent study, titled Bubbles and Crashes with Higher Order Uncertainty, Negrelli developed an innovative game theory model to understand how changes in interest rates policy impacts on financial bubbles, in a setting where agents are unsure about the optimism or pessimism of other market participants about the fundamental value of an asset.

by Elisa Bazzani