Reading time: 3 minutes Investment banking. Everyone knows about it, especially at Bocconi. Its difficulties are somewhat commonly understood, but they are put on paper by those working in the industry for the first [ … ]
Category: Finance
The GameStop Incident: Interview with Massimo Guidolin
Reading time: 10 minutes Our writers Cansu and Emma conducted an interview with Bocconi Finance professor Massimo Guidolin about the recent GameStop fever. Here is a quick and simple recap of the events for [ … ]
Beyond the Mountains: the Nagorno-Karabakh War
Reading time: 4 minutes How War in the Caucasus will Impact the Global Market The Nagorno-Karabakh War has devastated the separatist enclave of Artsakh over the past month. However, behind Azerbaijan and Armenia are [ … ]
Starving the Beast: Convexity Hedges and Bond Market Distortion
Reading time: 5 minutes March has undoubtedly been a wild month for the markets. We have witnessed the largest daily point gain ever occurred in history in the S&P500, followed by a record negative [ … ]
Financial Inclusion: reaching out to the unbanked
Reading time: 5 minutes FinTech has undoubtedly been a fairly popular buzzword in recent times, but one of its most promising applications is often overlooked: granting access to financial services to the unbanked, those [ … ]
Popolare Bari: ci risiamo
Reading time: 2 minutes Lo Stato italiano torna a occuparsi di banche. Lo fa con un decreto che mette sul piatto quasi un miliardo per Popolare di Bari, una banca cooperativa particolarmente attiva in [ … ]
A farewell to LIBOR
Reading time: 6 minutes by Barbara Balcon What is LIBOR? First published in 1986, the London Interbank Offer rate (LIBOR) is the interest rate at which funds are offered for sale in the Eurodollar [ … ]
Il coraggio di cambiare le regole del gioco
Reading time: 3 minutes L’accordo Mediaset-Netflix dipinge nuovi scenari nel panorama televisivo italiano. E ci rivela ciò che gli italiani desiderano davvero. di Marta Mancini Vale 200 milioni di euro l’accordo siglato lo scorso [ … ]
Passaggio di consegne tra Draghi e Lagarde: come cambierà la politica della BCE
Reading time: 2 minutes di Federico Pozzi Il 24 ottobre si è tenuta la cerimonia di fine mandato di Mario Draghi come Presidente della Banca Centrale Europea (BCE). Il banchiere italiano ha ricevuto attestati [ … ]
Hawks & Doves | The rationale of Central Banks independence
Reading time: 4 minutes di Lorenzo Sala In recent weeks, on both sides of the Atlantic central banks have been attacked by politicians. Professor Donato Masciandaro explains the reason why central banks independence is [ … ]