“ESG investing” and “sustainable finance” integrate environmental (E), social (S), and governance (G) issues into investment decisions. This trend has led to significant regulatory and market changes.
The MUR (Italian Ministry for Education, University, and Research) awards PRIN grants to fund research projects that normally require the collaboration of several scholars and research organizations, either national or international. The purpose of these grants is to enhance the participation of faculty in Italian universities to European initiatives related to the EU Framework Programs.
This research project will combine quasi-natural experiments and insights from the network literature in order to provide causal evidence on the distributional impact and propagation patterns of climate shocks across the infrastructure network, firms, and workers.
This project aims at evaluating the career progression effects of labor market policies targeting individuals at the low end of the wage spectrum and marginally attached to the labor market. Our focus is placed on minimum wages and active labor market policies (ALMPs), tools that have gained prominence in the debate around fair compensation and inclusive growth.
This project blends data and theory to improve the design of the mechanisms adopted by Research Funding Organizations (RFOs) to allocate research funds.
Throughout history racial and ethnic discrimination has represented a major social problem and still today many minorities fall victim to violent discriminatory episodes. Using evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiments, this project will study how society at large react to discrimination and whether groups not directly discriminated against take a stance pro-/ against these discrimination episodes.
Exploring the complexities of asymmetric information in diverse economic scenarios, this research project comprises three focused studies—Extracting Information from Adversaries, Self-Image and Information Transmission, and Application Markets—to investigate the feasibility of information transmission when parties have opposing interests.
The main goal of the project is to study the impact of financial frictions on economic performance with a special focus on asymmetric information and limited commitment
This project seeks to collect new data on the organizational economics of bank branches.
We plan to study theoretically and empirically the role of attention - shaped by selective memory and stimulus salience in economic decisions and policy interventions.
This project analyzes the economic consequences of the increasing use of algorithms in many different fields including search engines movie and music platforms and online marketplaces.