Covid Crisis Lab Laboratory for Coronavirus Crisis Research
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What We Do
Our mission is to understand the spread of the COVID19 and analyze its numerous implications on the health of populations, health care, society, the economy at large and its financial and legal consequences.

    News & Events

    Warning: Epidemics Are Often Followed by Unrest
    From the black death to the spanish flu, history teaches that social tension accumulated over an epidemic can lead to significant episodes of rebellion, according to a study by Massimo Morelli and Roberto Censolo
    Covid19: One Year to Redefine Policy Priorities
    Work has begun for the Commission set up by the WHO regional office for Europe chaired by Mario Monti, President of Bocconi. Aleksandra Torbica, Director of CERGAS, is special Advisor.
    The Importance of a Strong National Health Service
    Eduardo Missoni and a team of Alumni studied how health systems dealt with the Covid emergency
    The Young Perceive Higher COVID Risk than the Old. And Are More Cautious
    A survey of over 1,500 Americans conducted by scholars from Bocconi, Harvard and Oxford shows that young people assess Covid mortality for their age group 10 times higher than it is; old people 10 times lower. And their behavior is consistent with such beliefs

    People

    • Alessia Melegaro
      Director
      Alessia Melegaro is an Associate Professor in Demography and Social Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research interests focus on the use of mathematical modeling and statistical analysis techniques to evaluate public health intervention programs. In particular, she has been working extensively ...
    • Arnstein Aassve
      Full Professor
      Arnstein Aassve is Professor in Demography at Bocconi University. Research interests include institutional and cultural Demography, big data in historical perspective, NLP and sentiment analysis. ...
    • Jérôme Adda
      Full Professor
      Jérôme Adda is a Full Professor in the department of Economics. His research interests focus on health, health behavior and labor. His main contributions have been on the effect of public policies on health behavior, the links between income and health, the role of human capital on career choices ov ...
    • Nicoletta Balbo
      Assistant Professor
      Nicoletta Balbo is an Assistant Professor in the department of Social and Political Sciences. ...
    • Francesco Billari
      Full Professor
      Francesco Billari is Professor of Demography and Dean of the Faculty at Bocconi University, Milan, he worked at the University of Oxford (Department of Sociology, where he also served as Head of Department) and Nuffield College (where he was a Professorial Fellow), and at the Max Planck Institute fo ...
    • Marco Bonetti
      Full Professor
      Marco Bonetti has a MSc and PhD degrees in Statistics at the University of Connecticut following his undergraduate studies in Statistics and Economics (University of Rome). He spent 8 years as postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of Biostatistics at Harvard, with joint position at Dana-Farber ...
    • Emanuele Borgonovo
      Full Professor
      Emanuele Borgonovo is Full Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University, and director of the new Bachelor in Economics, Management and Computer Science of Bocconi University. He is the current President Elect of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS, co-editor-in-chief o ...
    • Leonardo Borlini
      Assistant Professor
      Leonardo S. Borlini is Assistant Professor of International law in the Department of Legal Studies at Bocconi University. He received his Ph.D in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University in 2009 and his LL.M from the University of Cambridge in 2007. He served the Legal Department of t ...
    • ARIELA CAGLIO
      Associate Professor
      Degree in Business Administration and Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management, Università Bocconi, Milan. Associate Professor of Management Accounting. Program Director of BIEM (International Economics and Management). Senior Professor of the SDA Bocconi School of Management. SDA Bocconi Lia ...
    • ALESSANDRA CASARICO
      Associate Professor
      Associate Professor of Public Economics. Dondena, CESifo and D'Agliano Research Fellow. MSc in Economic and Social Sciences, Bocconi University. D.Phil. in Economics, Oxford University, Nuffield College. ...
    • Carlo Favero
      Full Professor
      Carlo Favero is Deutsche Bank Chair in Quantitative Finance and Asset Pricing at Bocconi University and a member of BIDSA’s Scientific Committee. His research interests include econometric modelling of bond and stock prices, applied econometrics, monetary and fiscal policy and time-series models for ...
    • Vincenzo Galasso
      Full Professor
      Vincenzo Galasso is Professor of economics at Bocconi University focusing on political economics, political economy. ...
    • Simone Ghislandi
      Associate Professor
      Simone Ghislandi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University. He holds a degree in Economics from Bocconi University, an MPhil and a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He is affiliate at CERGAS and also at the Carlo F. Dondena Centr ...
    • Pamela Giustinelli
      Assistant Professor
      Pamela Giustinelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University. Her research focusses on modeling, measurement, empirical analysis, and policy implications of how individuals and groups make consequential economic decisions in the presence of partial information an ...
    • Dirk Hovy
      Associate Professor
      Dirk Hovy is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the department of marketing at Bocconi University. He holds a PhD from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, working as research assistant at the Information Sciences Institute. He works in Natural Language Processing (NLP ...
    • Alexander Kentikelenis
      Assistant Professor
      Alexander Kentikelenis is a social scientist interested in political economy, international affairs, and global health and development. He is assistant professor of political economy and sociology at Bocconi University. His research focuses on the links between global processes, national respo ...
    • Greta Nasi
      Associate Professor
      Greta Nasi is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University. She is also Director of the Master of Science in Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance, jointly offered by Bocconi University and Politecnico di Milano. Since 2017 she serves as Director of Rese ...
    • Raffaella Piccarreta
      Associate Professor
      Raffaella Piccarreta is an Associate Professor in the department of Decision Science. ...
    • Paolo Pinotti
      Associate Professor
      Associate Professor in Economics at the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Coordinator of Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Director of the CLEAN Unit on the economics of crime at the Baffi-Carefin Center, Senior Researcher at FBK-IRVAPP, and researcher at Dondena. Before joining Boc ...
    • ORESTE POLLICINO
      Full Professor
      Oreste Pollicino is full professor of constitutional law at Bocconi University and Director of the Bocconi LL.M. program in Law of Internet Technologies. His research fields include balancing between public health and privacy in the emergency season and protection of fundamental rights in digital c ...
    • Paola Profeta
      Associate Professor
      Paola Profeta is Associate Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University, coordinator of the Dondena Gender Initiative at the Dondena Research Center for Social Dynamics and Public Policy, research affiliate of CESifo and CHILD and scientific advisor of Unicredit and Universities Foundation. S ...
    • Aleksandra Torbica
      Associate Professor
      Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences and the Director of Centre for Research for Health and Social Care Management at Bocconi University. She holds the MSc degree in Health Economics, Management and Policy from Bocconi University and PhD in Economics and Management ...
    • Arianna Vedaschi
      Full Professor
      Arianna Vedaschi is Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at Bocconi University. Her fields of research include state of emergency, human rights and counter-terrorism. She is a member of the Scientific Board of “Comparative Covid Law”. She is the coordinator of the research group on Constitutiona ...