News & Events
09/07/2020
How to Return to Work Balancing Public Health and Economic Needs
Carlo Favero adapted a standard epidemiological model to the Italian Covid outbreak and extended it in order to consider the economic effect of the pandemic, along with Andrea Ichino and Aldo Rustichini
09/07/2020
How a Mortality Threat and Technology Conspire to Make a Museum's Virtual Tour Effective
An experiment by Anastasia Nanni and Aulona Ulqinaku shows that interactive virtual tours can improve people's attitudes towards cultural institutions in times of Covid
09/07/2020
Populist Governments Lagged Behind in the Fight on COVID
In a study on 94 countries, Kerim Kavakli shows that populist distrust in expert advice may have caused delays in the implementation of health measures, closures and mobility restrictions. The effect is stronger in rich countries
08/07/2020
The Virus Can Be Conquered Through Contamination. Of Knowledge
Alessia Melegaro, demographer and director of the Covid Crisis Lab, is convinced of this. A contamination and a network that must be built in peacetime because it is difficult to improvise during an emergency. This is why the new Lab is first and foremost a model, because today we have a word that has brought us together, which is Covid, but tomorrow there could be others.
08/07/2020
A Research Lab to Reduce the Uncertainty Brought by the Pandemic
To address the Covid19 crisis which is global in scope for its health, economic and social impact, researchers need to study the problem and design responses in an equally global and multidisciplinary way. For this reason, Bocconi has established the Covid Crisis Lab, a research hub that fosters dialogue among academics from different
fields and sets of skills.
02/07/2020
Covid19: Bocconi Research on the Economic, Social, Legal, and Health Care Impacts
The latest issue of ViaSarfatti25 magazine, Bocconi's monthly, is now online. It is entirely devoted to studies done by the University's Covid Crisis Lab. The fledgling research hub investigates the impact of the virus through the works of 50 professors.
01/07/2020
EU Response to Covid-19: a webinar series
The video of the second webinar on the EU response to Covid-19 is now available. The series, organized by the Department of Legal Studies, aims to look at the EU response from an interdisciplinary perspective.
18/06/2020
Nasi and Borlini Receive a Grant from the American Embassy
for a research program on the redesign of municipal services after Covid
18/06/2020
With COVID Labor Market Inequality Has Grown Worldwide
A comparative analysis of the labor market in 12 countries confirms on a global scale the disparities observed by Vincenzo Galasso for Italy
16/06/2020
COVID Makes Us Unequal in the Labor Market
Thanks to two surveys conducted three weeks apart, Vincenzo Galasso notes that the most affected in terms of employment and income are the least educated, blue collar and low income service workers. As time goes by, moreover, the contrast increases