Last week's conference, forced to move online by the COVID pandemic, was attended by a record number of participants from all over the world

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

Julien Sauvagnat and Basile Grassi are investigating the effect of business closures on GDP, firms' market value and COVID lethality

Thirty seven of them have published in the most prestigious journals in the world, three have been recognized for the impact of their studies

Carlo Favero adapted a standard epidemiological model to the Italian COVID outbreak and extended it in order to consider the economic effect of the pandemic, along with Andrea Ichino and Aldo Rustichini

With a paper on the shareholder value of listed companies that use secret offshore vehicles in tax havens, published in The Review of Financial Studies