Donato Masciandaro

Full Professor
Knowledge groupEconomics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Research domainsEconomics
Teaching domainsMacroeconomics, International Economy, Microeconomics, Policy Analysis, Public Governance
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Donato Masciandaro

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. 

Recent Publications

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  • 2025
    Literacy and Financial Education: Private Providers, Public Certification and Political Preferences
    GUERINI, C., D. MASCIANDARO, A. PAPINI, "Literacy and Financial Education: Private Providers, Public Certification and Political Preferences", Italian Economic Journal, 2025, vol. 11, pp. 463–514
  • 2025
    What Do Politicians Think of Technocratic Institutions? Attitudes in the European Parliament Towards the European Central Bank
    FERRARA, F. M., D. MASCIANDARO, M. MOSCHELLA, D. ROMELLI, "What Do Politicians Think of Technocratic Institutions? Attitudes in the European Parliament Towards the European Central Bank", JCMS - Journal of Common Market Studies, 2025, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 564-589
  • 2024
    Central bank communication and social media: From silence to Twitter
    MASCIANDARO, D., O. PEIA, D. ROMELLI, "Central bank communication and social media: From silence to Twitter", Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 365-388
  • 2024
    European politicians and financial literacy activism: Does financial (in)stability matter?
    BORGHI, E., D. MASCIANDARO, A. PAPINI, "European politicians and financial literacy activism: Does financial (in)stability matter?", Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 244, pp. 111981
  • 2024
    L’Educazione finanziaria tra mercato e stato: analisi economica e caso italiano
    GUERINI, C., D. MASCIANDARO, "L’Educazione finanziaria tra mercato e stato: analisi economica e caso italiano", Bancaria, 2024, no. 1, pp. 2-22
  • 2024
    Monetary and macroprudential policies: How to Be green? A political-economy approach
    MASCIANDARO, D., R. RUSSO, "Monetary and macroprudential policies: How to Be green? A political-economy approach", Economic Modelling, 2024, vol. 141, pp. 106931

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 e Borsellino Internatio Research Institute for Comparative Lawnal Award (con Alessandro Pansa) -, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 2001

  • The Best Essay in Economics of theYear (con Vittorio Grilli e Guido Tabellini), Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei, 1992