Donato Masciandaro
Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Biography
Donato Masciandaro (1961) from 2001 is Full Professor of Economics at Università Bocconi. From 2005 he holds the Chair in Economics of Financial Regulation. In the same University he has been Head of the Department of Economics (2008-2010, 2013-2017), and from 2018 he is Director of the Baffi Centre on Economics, Finance and Regulation, while from 2023 he is Director of the Area on Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences in the SDA Bocconi Business School. From 2024 he is President of the SUERF (Société Universitaire Européenne de Recherches Financières). From 2023 he is Director of the Financial Education Committee, Ministry of Economics and Finance, Italy.
He has served as a visiting and advisor for international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations.
His research activities focus on monetary and financial economics, particularly in three areas: central banking (monetary policy and banking supervision), economics and political economy of financial regulation, economics of illegal financial markets. His Impact Factor (March 2024) is 41.35.
Donato earned a degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Università Bocconi.
Teaching domains
Macroeconomics
International Economy
Microeconomics
Policy Analysis
Public Governance
Latest publications
Are Bankers “Crying Wolf”? Type I, Type II Errors and Deterrence in Anti-Money Laundering: The Italian Case
Italian Economic Journal, 2023, vol.9, no. 2, pp.587-615
Politicians, central banks and macroprudential supervision in Central Banks and Supervisory Architecture in Europe
Robert Holzmann, Fernando Restoy(Ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.170-179, 2022
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank
European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, vol.74, pp.102143
Populism, financial crises and banking policies: Economics and psychology
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2022, vol.69, no. 4, pp.441-464
Designing the anti-money laundering supervisor: The governance of the financial intelligence units
International Review of Economics & Finance, 2022, vol.80, pp.1093-1109
Independence, conservatism, and beyond: Monetary policy, central bank governance and central banker preferences (1981–2021)
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2022, vol.122, pp.102579
Grants & Honors
Excellence in Research Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2023
Excellence in Research Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2022
Research Excellence Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2013
Falcone and Borsellino International Award (with Alessandro Pansa) - Research Institute for Comparative Law - Università degli Studi di Bologna
, 2001
The Best Essay in Economics of theYear (with Vittorio Grilli and Guido Tabellini) - Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei
, 1992
