DONATO MASCIANDARO

DONATO MASCIANDARO

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

  • Graduate  School: Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation,  Macroeconomic Scenarios;
  • Undergraduate School: Monetary Economics, Evolution of Economic ideas;
  • PhD in International Law and Economics: International Monetary and Financial Law:  Economics
  • SDA Business School: Master Corporate Finance, Monetary Economics  

Biographical note

I am from 2001 Full Professor of Economics. From 2005 I hold the Chair in Economics of Financial Regulation. From 2018 I am Director of the Baffi Centre. In the periods 2013 – 2017 and 2008 - 2010 I have been Head of the Department of Economics. From 2011 I am  Member of the SUERF Management Board. From 2010 I am Associated Editor of the Journal of Financial Stability. I served as Consultant at European Parliament, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank and United Nations. I have been Visiting Scholar at the IMF Institute (IMF).


Research interests

Monetary Policy, Financial Regulation, Illegal Financial Markets


Selected Publications

Masciandaro, Donato
Independence, conservatism, and beyond: monetary policy, central bank governance and central banker preferences (1981–2021)
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MONEY AND FINANCE, 2022

Bartolozzi, Diego; Gara, Mario; Marchetti, Domenico J.; Masciandaro, Donato
Designing the anti-money laundering supervisor: the governance of the financial intelligence units
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS & FINANCE, 2022

Ferrara, Federico M.; Masciandaro, Donato; Moschella, Manuela; Romelli, Davide
Political voice on monetary policy: evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 2022

Favaretto, Federico; Masciandaro, Donato
Populism, financial crises and banking policies: economics and psychology
SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 2022

Masciandaro D, Bianchi P., Marra A. and Pecchiari N.
Organized Crime and Firms’ Financial Statements: Evidence from Criminal Investigations in Italy
The Accounting Review, 2022

Masciandaro, Donato; Goodhart, Charles; Ugolini, Stefano
Pandemic recession and helicopter money: Venice, 1629–1631
FINANCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 2021

Masciandaro, Donato; Passarelli, Francesco
Populism, political pressure and central bank (in)dependence
OPEN ECONOMIES REVIEW, 2020

Masciandaro, Donato; Peia, Oana; Romelli, Davide
Banking supervision and external auditors: Theory and empirics
JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL STABILITY, 2020

Dalla Pellegrina, Lucia; Di Maio, Giorgio; Masciandaro, Donato; Saraceno, Margherita
Organized crime, suspicious transaction reporting and anti-money laundering regulation
REGIONAL STUDIES, 2020

Masciandaro, Donato; Romelli, Davide
Pros and cons of being a Euro country: a behavioral political economy perspective
The economics of monetary unions past experiences and the Eurozone, 2020

Masciandaro, Donato; Romelli, Davide
The economics of European monetary integration
EU law of economic and monetary union, 2020

D. Masciandaro
Covid-19 Helicopter Money: Economics and Politics
2020