“The new arrivals are going to strengthen Bocconi departments,” says Francesco Billari, current Dean of faculty and the University's future Rector, “not just directly, but also indirectly: a feature shared by many of the new hires is, in fact, the ability to do research on topics that straddle multi

Together with Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent, Bocconi professors Pierpaolo Battigalli, Simone Cerreia Vioglio, Fabio Maccheroni, and Massimo Marinacci investigate the game theory concept of self confirming equilibrium and its policymaking implications

Professor Petrone received the award “for significant and impacting contributions to the foundations of Bayesian statistics and Bayesian nonparametric inference and prediction, as well as long-standing professional service and dedicated mentoring throughout her career.”

Bocconi professors Sandra Fortini and Sonia Petrone propose a new methodology to shed light on black box algorithms by using the predictive approach that is typical of bayesian statistics.

Bocconi professor Simone Padoan develops novel tools in extreme value theory that allow, for example, to jointly study the shocks in the exchange rates of multiple currencies