The Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) was established in 1998 by the University of Naples Federico II, the University of Salerno, and Bocconi University to foster research and attract talent in all fields of economics and finance.

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Forthcoming seminars & events

SEMINARS / View all

Monday, 19 October 2026 – h. 13.30

CSEF Seminar with Simon Jäger (Princeton University)

TBA

Tuesday, 20 October 2026 – h. 13.30

CSEF Seminar with Mira Frick (Princeton University)

Contagious Ambiguity


Working papers

#799 Dynamic Ethnosizing and Revisable Identity

Nicodemo de Vito, Fausto Galli, Giuseppe Russo, Ružica Savčić, and Paolo Solimene

#798 Other-Regarding Preferences with a Wealth Dependent Bound on Transfers: Existence of Equilibria

Maria Bernadette Donato, Vincenzo Platino, and Antonio Villanacci

#797 Public Sector Salary Caps and the Careers of Public Managers

Edoardo Di Porto, Christian Dustmann, Chiara Giannetto, and Lorenzo Incoronato

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Recent & forthcoming publications

Marco M. Sorge

Are rich people smarter? A comment

Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 238, December 2026, Article 106255

Agnieszka Markiewicz and Riccardo Silvestrini

The Increase in Turbulence and Market Power

The Economic Journal, 2026, vol. 136, pp. 507-559

Marco Battaglini, Luigi Guiso, Chiara Lacava, Douglas L. Miller, Eleonora Patacchini

Refining public policies with machine learning: The case of tax auditing

Journal of Econometrics, 2025, vol. 249, pp. 105847

Marco Battaglini, Luigi Guiso, Chiara Lacava, Eleonora Patacchini

Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion

Forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association

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MEDIA

BLOGS & PRESS

13.08.2026

Conflict, credit and control: How banks reorganise to preserve lending during conflict

Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University, BAFFI and IGIER, and CEPR), Luca Picariello (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and MoFiR), Tom Schwantje (Bocconi University, BAFFI and IGIER)

24.07.2026

Why do euro area consumers (not) invest in stocks?

Dimitris Christelis (University of Glasgow), Ivan la Franca (Barcelona School of Economics), Dimitris Georgarakos (ECB), Tullio Jappelli (University of Naples Federico II), Geoff Kenny (ECB), Justus Meyer (ECB)

26.03.2026

La mossa di Unicredit su Commerzbank è una chiamata in causa rivolta ai governi

Ignazio Angeloni (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE), Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II)

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