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VIDEO Optimism
A study on 1,642 British firms highlights that optimistic entrepreneurs implemented more innovation and more organizational change than the rest during the COVID spring lockdown. Read the whole story: http://bit.ly/3800RuD
VIDEO Digital Competition
If, in digital markets, the winner takes all, how can we guarantee competition? Francesco Decarolis, Avvocato Giovanni Agnelli Associate Professor in Economics, won a ERC Grant to shed light on this new environment. Read the whole story: http://bit.ly/3subTAT
VIDEO Vaccine Hesitancy
We can have better epidemiological models and more effective public health campaigns if we incorporate the dynamics of human behavior into our models. Alessia Melegaro, Director of Bocconi’s COVID Crisis Lab, obtained a ERC Grant to investigate the reasons why accept or refuse vaccines. Read the whole story: http://bit.ly/35m83zO
VIDEO Immigrant Health
During the spring lockdown, undocumented immigrants’ access to primary care in Milan halved and their housing conditions deteriorated, making it difficult to comply with COVID public health measures, according to research by Carlo Devillanova in collaboration with the NAGA association. Read the whole story: https://www.knowledge.unibocconi.it/notizia.php?idArt=22383
VIDEO COVID Communication
Risk communication from the WHO was well trusted and acted upon during the first wave, but more emphasis on non-enforceable hygiene measures and messages tailored to the less compliant are needed now, according to Aleksandra Torbica and Nirosha Varghese. Read the whole story: https://www.knowledge.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?idArt=22297
Financial Consequences of Customer Dissatisfaction
New research by Anatoli Colicev finds an unexpected link between marketing and finance: investor behavior of short sellers, who buy private data on customer dissatisfaction and satisfaction in order to choose or avoid targets. Interestingly, the negative effect of dissatisfaction is 2.39 times larger than the positive effect of satisfaction. Read the whole story: https://bit.ly/3jkQXqd
Why Men Are More Vulnerable to COVID
A survey in 8 OECD countries shows that men are less likely than women to consider the coronavirus a serious problem, less likely to agree with public policies and more likely to disregard them. With Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta. Read the whole story: https://bit.ly/2T3nsOF
Why CSR Can Destroy Value
It happens when firms stop leading by example and markets start punishing their behavior, according to research by Antonio Marra, Francesco Momentè and Eli Bartov. Read the whole story: http://www.knowledge.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?idArt=22199
Milgrom and Wilson, Two Microeconomists Fundamental for Game and Auction Theory
Pierpaolo Battigalli, Professor of microeconomics and game theory and Director of the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi, comments on the 2020 Nobel Prize for Economics
Nobel Prize to Milgrom and Wilson. Thanks to Them, We Understand How Markets Really Work
Marco Ottaviani, Professor of Economics at Bocconi, comments on the 2020 Nobel Prize for Economics
Why COVID Doesn't Justify Bans on Short Selling
Six EU countries banned short-selling on their stock exchanges in the wake of the COVID outbreak in order to avoid a downward feedback loop. They had it wrong, according to Marco Ventoruzzo. Read the whole story: https://bit.ly/2ZUYSDt
Making AI Linguistically More Intelligent
A ERC Grant-winning project by Dirk Hovy introduces demographic factors into language processing systems in order to improve algorithmic performance and avoid racism, sexism, and ageism. Read the whole story: https://bit.ly/32NBDfc
The Young Experience COVID as a Major Risk
People under 35 believe that the fatality rate in their age group is ten times larger than reality. People over 70 think it is ten times lower. Read the whole story: http://www.knowledge.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?idArt=22118
How to Improve School Performance in a Lockdown
A Bocconi and Harvard online tutoring program boosted middle school students’ academic performance and raised their aspirations, happiness and socio-emotional skills. Read the whole story: https://www.knowledge.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?idArt=22091
Why Women Are Bearing the Brunt of the COVID Crisis
Social distancing measures translated into an additional housework burden for 68% of the working women. Read the whole story: https://www.knowledge.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?idArt=21976
Why Populists Were Slow in the Fight Against COVID
Allo scoppio della pandemia COVID-19, la diffidenza populista nei confronti degli esperti può aver causato ritardi nell'attuazione delle misure sanitarie, delle chiusure e delle restrizioni alla mobilità. Leggi la storia: https://www.knowledge.unibocconi.it/notizia.php?idArt=21973
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Marie Curie Funding to GREEN Activities
Two young scholars will join the research center thanks to the European program aimed at helping researchers gain experience in different working environments while developing transferable skills
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Technology is Still a Boy Game: Italy is 25th out of 28 for Digital Gender Equality
A study by Bocconi and Plan International Italia with the support of UniCredit Foundation photographs the digital gender divide in Italy
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Education and Innovation, a Glimpse of Hope for Africa
Bocconi students on the seminars organized by IGIER. In the latest article of the series, Federico Scabbia reports on the work of Leonard Wantchekon and Nick Hughes
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Recovery Fund e Azioni per il Lavoro
Labour LawWelcome address Marco Ventoruzzo, Università Bocconi Introduction and Chair Maurizio Del Conte, Bocconi University Guest Speakers Tito Boeri, Bocconi University Elsa Maria Fornero, Università degli Studi di Torino Marco Leonardi, Università degli Studi di Milano Online registration required
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International Oversight of Fiscal Discipline
Political Economy Seminar - Joint with the Ettore Bocconi Department of EconomicsFabio Franchino, Università degli Studi di Milano
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International Oversight of Fiscal Discipline
Political Economy - Joint with the Department of Social and Political SciencesFabio Franchino (University of Milan) Abstract
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