Stefano Gatti
Finance
Biography
Stefano Gatti is the 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 has taught 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 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
An announcement effect in reverse? Evidence from cash‐settled convertible bonds
European Financial Management, 2025, vol.31, no. 2, pp.639-669
The joint determination of the payment method and the bid premium in M&As: What is the role of firm opacity?
European Financial Management, 2024, vol.30, no. 4, pp.2195-2241
Project Finance in Theory and Practice. Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects - IV Ed.
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands (The), 2024
Agriculture as an Alternative Investment: The Status Quo and Future Perspectives
Springer Cham, Switzerland, 2023
Capital Markets: Perspectives over the last decade
Bocconi University Press - BUP, Milano, Italy, 2023
Agriculture as an Asset Class in the Alternative Investments Space in Agriculture as an Alternative Investment: The Status Quo and Future Perspectives
Stefano Gatti, Carlo Chiarella, Vitaliano Fiorillo (Eds),Springer Cham, chap. 3, pp.73-99, 2023
Grants & Honors
Bocconi Teaching Award for the academic year 2023-2024 - “Innovation in Teaching” - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2025
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
