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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
Why We Can Trust Coronavirus Clinical Trials
New research finds reassuring evidence about the integrity of registered clinical trials, with some concerns only regarding small pharma companies. Read the story: https://www.knowledge.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?idArt=21847
Why Stock Prices Go up When a COVID Bulletin Is Released
The pandemic has unexpected effects on stock exchanges. And social media can help us understand financial trends. Read the story; https://www.knowledge.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?idArt=21863
How the Mafia Dodges Public Scrutiny
A new paper by Bocconi’s Giulia Cappellaro and Amelia Compagni, along with Oxford’s Eero Vaara, makes sense of the strategies used by the Mafia and the Italian State throughout 55 years of struggles for keeping or tearing apart the shroud of ambiguity that surrounds the organization. The paper allows understanding how ambiguity might be used strategically by organizations to shy from public scrutiny and alerts us on how to recognize such strategies.
Invest in Private Companies: Their Accounts Are More Reliable
Institutional investors tend to put their money largely in public companies, persuaded that market discipline makes their accounts more reliable than those of private ones. But a new study with Massimiliano Bonacchi and Paul Zarowin finds that, if you compare public and private companies with a similar organizational structure, private firms display a higher accounting quality.
How to Rank Employees and Keep Them Motivated
«First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize a set of steak knives, third prize you’re fired». What Alec Baldwin introduces in a famous Glengarry Glen Ross scene is a particularly crude form of performance ranking and what follows in the movie is a story of cheating, betrayal, and infighting as actors attempt to get ahead in the raking. In the real-life, the risks with performance rankings are not too far off. Making use of an experiment, Cassandra Chambers, an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University’s Department of Management and Technology, highlights on the one hand that performance rankings do in fact dramatically reduce levels of cooperation in groups and, on the other, that sharing reputational information (individuals’ histories of pro-social contributions) almost completely offsets the disruptive effect of performance ranks.
Globalization Hurts When Portfolios Are Not Diversified
American investors ask for a hefty 7% risk premium when investing in firms exposed to trade shocks and the same is true for Europe, according to a study by Bocconi’s Julien Sauvagnat and colleagues. That’s a very large effect, dictated by the risk of displacement of less productive local companies
Unlocking Value to Have an Impact on Growth
Thanks to the contribution of Algebris Investments, an independent global asset management company founded by Bocconi alumnus Davide Serra, Bocconi University has established the Algebris Chair in Long-term Investment and Absolute Return. The five-year chair has been awarded to Stefano Caselli, Full Professor at the Department of Finance.
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Research and Policy to Tackle Climate Change
Bocconi students on the economics seminars organized by IGIER. In the third article of the series, Federico Scabbia reports on the work of Solomon Hsiang, Berkeley University, Christian Gollier, Toulouse University, and Tom van Ierland, DG Climate Action
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Why American Deterrence May Not Work
In a world with many well armed and unpredictable countries, tough talk from the US is riskier than ever
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The Immigrant Factor for Public Health: Let the Data Speak
A study by Carlo Devillanova underlines the importance of monitoring health issues of immigrants to avoid the risks of leaving them outside the healthcare system during the pandemic
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Uncertainty and Information Acquisition: Evidence From Firms and Consumers
Christopher Roth, Warwick In order to receive the invitation link for the online streaming, please contact dip.fin@unibocconi.it
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Power of Words: How Do Employee Narratives Shape Our Understanding of Managerial Incompetence?
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The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions
MacroeconomicsFrancesco Lippi (LUISS University)
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