Carlo Cottarelli Is the Latest Tommaso Padoa Schioppa Visiting Professor

Carlo Cottarelli, a former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and former Commissioner for the spending review in Italy, was assigned the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Visiting Professorship for the second semester of the academic year 2018-2019. The professorship is funded by the European Central Bank (ECB) in memory of one of Bocconi's most illustrious alumni, among the founding fathers of the Euro and member of the Executive Board of the ECB from 1998 to 2005.

The ECB funds the professorship with the aim of bringing each year to Bocconi an outstanding international scholar to pursue activity of study, research and teaching linked to the theme of economics and European monetary policy. The ECB contributes to this aim with an annual donation of 30,000 euro. The list of past Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Visiting Professors includes Alberto Alesina, Kenneth Allen Shepsle, Fabrizio Zilibotti, Andrea Carriero, and Eric Ghysels.

At the IMF, Prof. Cottarelli was responsible for the Fiscal Monitor, one of the IMF flagship publications. He has written several scholarly papers on fiscal and monetary policies and institutions and edited books on fiscal policy, inflation, monetary policy, and exchange rates. He's currently Director of the Italian Public Finance Monitor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.