Stefano Gatti
Banking and Insurance
Biography
Stefano Gatti is an Antin IP Professor of Infrastructure Finance at the Department of Finance at Università Bocconi.
At SDA Bocconi, he has been the Director of the Full Time MBA and the International Teachers’ Program Director. He also teaches at SDA Bocconi Asia Center in Mumbai. He has conducted research, consulting and education projects for several financial and non-financial institutions in Italy and abroad. He has been a consultant for major multilateral development banks in the field of project and infrastructure finance.
His research activities focus on corporate finance and investment banking. Currently, he is focusing on four main topics: corporate financial advisory, infrastructure and project finance, corporate restructuring and private equity.
He is the author of a number of books and articles in his research fields. His works have been published in the European Journal of Operational Research, Financial Management, the Journal of Money Credit and Banking and the Journal of Banking and Finance. He is a board member of Economia & Management and was Chairman of the European Financial Management Association in 2005 and 2009. He has taught at Fudan University Shanghai (PRC) and has won the Best MBA Teacher award for 15 years in a row.
Stefano earned a degree in Business Administration from Università Bocconi and the ITP (International Teachers Programme) at Manchester Business School in 2003.
Teaching domains
Infrastructure Finance
IPO
Private Equity & Hedge Funds
Project Financing
Syndication of Bonds and Loans
Latest publications
Do shareholders really matter for firm performance? Evidence from the ownership characteristics of Italian listed companies
International Review of Financial Analysis, 2023, vol.86, pp.102544
Does asset encumbrance affect bank risk? Evidence from covered bonds
Journal of Banking & Finance, 2023, vol.146, pp.106705
Addressing Adverse Selection in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Procurement: An Agent-Based Approach
Public Works Management & Policy, 2022, vol.27, no. 4, pp.371–395
Corporate Bankruptcy and Directors’ Reputation: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects on Public Debt Contracts
Journal of Accounting Auditing & Finance, 2021, pp.1-25
Earnouts: The real value of disagreement in mergers and acquisitions*
European Financial Management, 2021, vol.27, no. 5, pp.981-1024
L'evoluzione delle utilities energetiche nell’era della smart city in Smart City - L'evoluzione di un'idea
Ferrari G.F. (Eds),Mimesis Edizioni, 2020
Grants & Honors
Teaching Award - Graduate School - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2021
Best Professor of the Year - Graduate School - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2019
Best full time MBA Professor - SDA Bocconi School of Management
, 2006
