Reading time: 3 minutes Living in Milan we are exposed to fashion on a daily basis. Even though fashion is a unique and interesting part of our culture many of us remain unaware of [ … ]
Category: Economics
The first Indian SaaS IPO: Story of Freshworks
Reading time: 3 minutes On September 23rd, 2021, Freshworks filed for an IPO becoming the first Indian SaaS company to be listed on Nasdaq. Although this might sound somewhat ordinary, given that various companies [ … ]
Pandora Papers – The new ‘Offshore’
Reading time: 5 minutes “The Pandora Papers revealed plenty of dirt on politicians, celebrities and billionaires, and yet the role of governments remains much undiscussed. While learning about the Pandora Papers more generally, what [ … ]
A Trainee at the ECB: Interview with Maui Brennan
Reading time: 4 minutes Maui Brennan is a second-year M.Sc. student in Bocconi’s Economic and Social Sciences (ESS) program. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Commerce at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, with [ … ]
Nobel Prize in Economic sciences 2021: the winners
Reading time: 2 minutes Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. This Monday, October 11th, three economists won the Nobel Prize in Economics for working on [ … ]
Political (in)effectiveness in Latin America
Reading time: 5 minutes How the pandemic has uncovered Latin America’s biggest operational risks: political fragmentation, corruption and ineffective policy formulation. A study published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently evidenced the operational [ … ]
Bitcoin: l’interesse delle istituzioni tra rischi e scenari per il futuro
Reading time: 4 minutes Il Bitcoin interessa ora anche agli investitori istituzionali e ai fondi pensione. Restano le preoccupazioni relative alla volatilità, legata in primo luogo all’assenza di un’autorità monetaria. E ora vari Paesi [ … ]
Quel divario ancora da colmare
Reading time: 3 minutes È da poco passata la ricorrenza del centosessantesimo Anniversario dell’Unità di Italia, avvenuta il 17 marzo del 1861. Questo anniversario dovrebbe essere occasione per riflettere sulle ancora enormi differenze presenti [ … ]
Bitcoin: un sistema insostenibile
Reading time: 3 minutes La corsa ai Bitcoin degli ultimi anni ha rivelato le fragilità del sistema delle criptovalute, fra spese energetiche da capogiro e rischi per l’ambiente Norilsk è una città della Siberia, [ … ]
Mind the GAP(s): Monetary policy and the way out of the pandemic
Reading time: 4 minutes In 2020, the direction of policy support was evident due to the outbreak of the pandemic; monetary and fiscal policies supported the economy all around the world. But now we [ … ]