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
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
Monetary and macroprudential policies: How to Be green? A political-economy approach
Economic Modelling, 2024, vol.141, pp.106931
European politicians and financial literacy activism: Does financial (in)stability matter?
Economics Letters, 2024, vol.244, pp.111981
Literacy and Financial Education: Private Providers, Public Certification and Political Preferences
Italian Economic Journal, 2024
Central bank communication and social media: From silence to Twitter
Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, vol.38, no. 2, pp.365-388
L’Educazione finanziaria tra mercato e stato: analisi economica e caso italiano
Bancaria, 2024, no. 1, pp.2-22
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
