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The Majority Puzzle

It is therefore possible that even the election of the Commission President will not change the overall picture, with the real game taking place whenever the European Parliament is called to vote on the fundamental choices that Europe will face in th...

A Second Term for Ursula Von der Leyen? The Rocky Road Ahead

After decades of being perceived as too technocratic and distant, the fight for the European Union’s top jobs has become highly anticipated and much more political

Why France Risks Becoming a Major Risk Factor for the EU

The elections for the European Parliament of June 6-9 had a clear winner, the extreme right, and also a clear loser, the economy.

China's experience of promoting venture capital investment

China’s effort to promote venture capital investment through government-sponsored so-called guidance funds echoes practices in other parts of the world, with mixed results. This session considers the Chinese experience in an international comparative...

Who Will Win the European Parliament Election: The Final Forecast

In our first forecast for the EP 2024 elections based on our model, in January 2024, we predicted a “sharp right turn”. In our latest forecast, and our final one before the election, we are still forecasting that the next EP will be considerabl...

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Andrea Sironi

Andrea Sironi is a Professor of Banking and Finance and, since November 2022, the President of Bocconi University. He was Rector from 2012 to 2016. Since May 2021 he is also President of the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (AIRC), while in May 2022 he became Chairman of Assicurazioni Generali. Until April 2022 he has been Chair of Borsa Italiana, the Italian stock exchange.

Sironi has held visiting positions at the Research and Statistics Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC, at the Salomon Brothers Center, Stern School of Business (NYU), and at Sciences Po, Paris. In the past, he has been a member of the BoD of the London Stock Exchange Group, of the Intesa SanPaolo Group and of the Unicredit Group. At the beginning of his career, Andrea Sironi was a financial analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank in London.

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Giorgio Di Giorgio

Giorgio Di Giorgio is Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy and Director of CASMEF at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. Previously, he served as Deputy Rector for Organization and Faculty (2018-21), Rector's Delegate for Corporate Relations (2017-18) and for International Relations (2003-05), Chairman of the Dept of Economics and Finance (2011-14), Dean of the Faculy of Economics and Management (2007-11) of the same University. He holds a Laurea in Economics cum laude from Sapienza University of Rome (1989) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in the City of New York (1996). His research focuses on monetary policy, financial intermediation, dynamic macroeconomics, banking and international finance and he published extensively on these topics.