Donato Masciandaro
Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Biography
Donato Masciandaro is a Full Professor at the Department of Economics at Università Bocconi. Since January 2017, he has been Ettore Bocconi Department of Economics Liaison Officer at SDA Bocconi School of Management.
He is the Director of the Baffi Carefin Centre, Università Bocconi. He has been Head of Ettore Bocconi Department of Economics (2008-2010, 2013-2017) and President of Baffi Carefin Centre (2015-17). He has been an advisor and visitor to several international organizations (International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, 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 (June 2020) is 35.
His works have been published in leading national and international journals. He is a member of scientific networks, such as RIDGE (Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics, Central Bank of Uruguay) and IRCCF (International Research Centre on Cooperative Finance, Montreal University). He has won two research awards: the Falcone and Borsellino International Award in 2011 (Università di Bologna) and the Saint Vincent Award in 1992 (Accademia dei Lincei and Italian Republic Presidency). In 2013 he won the Bocconi Research Excellence Award. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Donato earned a degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Università Bocconi. He is married with two sons.
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
