News & Events
09/06/2020
Restarting the Economy While Saving Lives: Italy Under COVID-19
ONLINE TALK. The main question all countries are facing throughout the world is how to restart their economies while saving lives during the pandemic. Researchers Carlo A. Favero, Andrea Ichino and Aldo Rustichini examine these challenges with data from two Italian regions hit hard by COVID-19: Lombardy and Veneto.
05/06/2020
Research Integrity: Why We Should Trust Registered Clinical Trials
New research finds reassuring evidence about the integrity of clinical trials registered in clinicaltrials.gov, with some concerns only regarding small pharma companies. A paper by Jerome Adda, Christian Decker and Marco Ottaviani
27/05/2020
Why Stock Prices Go up When a COVID Bulletin Is Released
Croce, Farroni and Wolfskeil analyze the relationship between the diffusion of pandemic information and market trends and provide a predictive tool based on Twitter, useful to avoid being caught unprepared again by a financial collapse of this kind
26/05/2020
The Lab in the Press
13.07.2020 Pop Economy "Il Covid sotto la lente della Bocconi" (video)
19/05/2020
Early Lockdown Measures Are Our Best Weapons Against Covid
New study by Lu and Borgonovo, using Sensitivity Analysis techniques, demonstrates that policy variables are much more relevant than the intrinsic features of the pandemic in containing the number of infectious.
18/05/2020
COVID Has Slashed Life Expectancy in Lombardy
Two Bocconi scholars consider the decline in life expectancy at local level to be the most reliable measure of the human cost of the epidemic. The province of Bergamo lost 8 years for men and 5.8 years for women.
18/05/2020
Executive Chats Live: Research and Politics in Times of Covid
On Wednesday 20 May at 5:15pm, the second online broadcast of the Executive Chats Live Series with Bocconi Rector Gianmario Verona, who meets Alberto Mantovani, Scientific Director of Humanitas Research Hospital, and Carlo Rosa, CEO of Diasorin
18/05/2020
Executive Chat Live: Universities and the social sciences in times of Covid-19
Bocconi University's Rector Gianmario Verona meets Francesca Cornelli (Dean, Kellogg School of Management) and Giovanna Iannantuoni (Rector, Università Bicocca) to discuss about Universities and the social sciences in times of Covid-19.
12/05/2020
Smart cities and digital services facing a health, economic and social crisis due to Covid-19
Online Workshop by the Smart City Observatory
11/05/2020
Upcoming Events
02/07/2020 5:00 PM WEBINAR | “Trends in COVID-related behaviors in northern Malawi: initial results from a panel survey” Stéphane Helleringer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health