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Policy Brief n.27 - The Elusive Cost of Trade Disruption

Robust port infrastructure can significantly mitigate the risk of supply chain disruption, suggesting that government efforts are better targeted at improving the performance of ports and critical infrastructure more broadly, rather than implementing...

Bucchi Filippo

Filippo Bucchi

Research Analyst at the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB)

The Improving Economics and Worsening Geopolitics of Clean Energy

A credible low-cost path to decarbonize energy systems and transport, which together account for 60% of emissions, now exists. Unfortunately, political obstacles to the rapid adoption of these clean-energy solutions have emerged, owing to NIMBYism in...

Mencarini Letizia

Letizia Mencarini

Letizia Mencarini is Full Professor of Demography at Bocconi University, at Department of Social and Political Science, Fellow at the DONDENA Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, and at the Center for Demography and Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She is an expert of Population Europe, among the Leading Women Scientists of AcademiaNet, and Associate Editor of Neodemos.info.

She is the Representative of Bocconi University in the Consortium Board of GGP (Gender and Generation Programme), she is the National Focal point for Italian Generations and Gender Survey and local coordinator of Italian 2025 GGS-II.

She is member of Scientific Commitee of Gorrieri Scientific Foundation; member of the Advisory Board of the PNRR-FOSSR - “Fostering Open Science in Social Science”, CNR; member of CDA of Bocconi pension fund.

She is an expert for the EUROFOUND for the survey EQLS – European Quality of Life Survey.

Her research interests focus on family demography (life–course analysis, low fertility, transition to adulthood, family formation and disruption) and its links with well-being, time use, gender diversity and migration in a policy and welfare state perspective.

She is author of numerous papers published in international scientific journals and of books in Italian about “women, job market and fertility” and “demographic trap” in Italy for the general public.

The Future of EU Integration – A debate with Bocconi students

A dedicated session for student during the IEP@BU Annual event to discuss about their policy contributions on one of the three issues related to the future of the EU integration: Enlargement, the future of the Green Deal, and possible changes to the ...

From research to policy brief - IEP@BU monthly brainstorming sessions

The Future of the European Green Deal: Three Potential Scenarios

This dismantling of the European Grean Deal would be one of the main mistakes that the Europeans could make. The often critics should not lead us to underestimate or marginalize people's desire to take action and deny the necessity to accelerate the ...

UniCredit-Commerzbank Deal is Test Case for ECB

The UniCredit-Commerzbank deal is a test case for the ECB, which will reverberate into the future, and be a golden opportunity for its supervisory board to uphold its independence

Bank profitability: a mirror of the past, creating a vision for the future

A lecture by Claudia Buch, Chair of the Single Supervisory Mechanism at European Central Bank

Buch Claudia

Claudia Buch

Claudia Buch is the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, appointed on 1 January 2024. She is a member of the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) of the Bank for International Settlements. Claudia Buch was the Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from May 2014 to December 2023, and before she was the President of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), professor of economics at the Universities of Magdeburg and Tübingen, and member of the German Council of Economic Experts. She worked for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, was awarded a doctoral degree and a habilitation (German post-doc degree) by the University of Kiel, and she studied Economics at the University of Bonn.