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Latest News

New faculty affiliates at LEAP

Welcome to two new faculty affiliates!

Welcome Edoardo Teso and Francesca Miserocchi, new Faculty Affiliates at LEAP!

Lucia Corno elected for the EEA council

Lucia Corno will join the European Economic Association Council

Congratulations to our Executive Director!

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One Post-Doctoral Research Position at LEAP

Applications are open. Deadline 30 November 2024

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Nicola Limodio

Nicola Limodio is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Bocconi University and received his PhD in Economics from LSE in Summer 2017. In spring 2018, h...

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Lucia Corno

Executive Director

Lucia Corno is Assistant Professor at Catholic University, Milan. She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi. Her research is in development econo...

Javier Garcìa Brazales

Javier Garcia Brazales Sierra

Javier is a post-doctoral researcher at LEAP, which he joined in September 2022 after receiving his PhD in Economics from CEMFI (Spain). His work focu...

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Jared Gars

Jared Gars is a researcher at LEAP and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018. His current research is on agriculture, be...

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Mara Squicciarini

Mara Squicciarini is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University ...

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Eliana La Ferrara

Scientific Director

Eliana La Ferrara is the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics...

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Paolo Pinotti

Paolo Pinotti is Associate Professor in Economics at Bocconi, the Coordinator of the Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation, the director of the research unit...

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Iris Steenkamp

Iris Steenkamp is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Marketing from London Business Sch...

Livia Alfonsi

Livia Alfonsi

Livia is a development economist whose research focuses on labor market frictions and determinants of labor market participation in low-income setting...

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Thomas Le Barbanchon

Thomas Le Barbanchon is associate professor of economics at Bocconi. He received a PhD in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique in 2012. Before 2012, he ...

Andrea Guariso

Andrea Guariso

Andrea Guariso is Assistant Professor of Economics at Bicocca University. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Leuven in 2016 and w...

Miguel Espinosa

Miguel Espinosa

Miguel Espinosa is an Assistant Professor of the Management Department at Bocconi University and received his PhD in Economics from the LSE. Before co...

Marinella Leone

Marinella Leone

Marinella Leone is Associate Professor at the University of Pavia. She received her PhD in economics from the University of Sussex in 2013 and wo...

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Stefano Fiorin

Stefano Fiorin is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson and he was a Post...

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Selim Gulesci

Selim Gulesci is an Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. He received his PhD in Economics from London School of Economics in 20...

Michela M. Tincani

Michela Tincani is Associate Professor at University College London. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her resear...

Mahima Vasishth

Mahima Vasishth

Mahima is a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies, Bocconi University. She obtained her Ph.D. in economics from t...

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Diego Ubfal

Diego Ubfal is an Economist in the World Bank's Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab. His research is in development economics, with focus on entrepren...

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Michela Carlana

Michela Carlana is Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge (USA). She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi University in 2018 a...

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Alexia Delfino

Alexia Delfino is Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics from the London School of E...

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