Tommaso Padoa Schioppa Visiting Professorship
Donor: European Central Bank
Sydney Ludvigson is Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University, and a Co-Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Asset Pricing Program. Her research centers on the interplay between asset markets and macroeconomic activity, with recent applications to the pricing and risk premia of stock, bond, and housing markets, the role of heterogeneity and wealth inequality in housing and stock market valuations, and the dynamic causal effects of uncertainty for business cycle fluctuations
For the academic year 2021/2022 the Tommaso Padoa Schioppa Visiting Professorship has been assigned to prof. Sydney C. Ludvigson. During her term, starting from the second semester of the academic year, she will conduct relevant research within the Bocconi Department of Finance. In particular, she will investigate the role of changes in uncertainty with specific reference to the Covid-19 crisis.
The Project
The European Central Bank established the Tommaso-Padoa Schioppa Visiting Professorship in 2011 in memory of one of the most illustrious Bocconi Alumni, among the founding fathers of the Euro and member of the ECB’s Executive Board from 1998 to 2005.
The Visiting Professorship was inaugurated at Bocconi during the opening ceremony of the academic year 2012-2013, in the presence of Mario Draghi, former President of the European Central Bank.
The Professorship aims to bring an international scholar to Bocconi every year to undertake research and teaching activities linked to issues of the economy and European monetary policy.
Previous Visiting Professors
The Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Visiting Professorship represents a very prestigious and fitting way to carry Tommaso Pasoa Schioppa name forward while at the same time recognizing one of the most outstanding members of the Bocconi community. Indeed, thanks to the Professorship, it has been possible to bring to Bocconi scholars of academic excellence and experience in the field of central banking and EMU:
- a.a. 2012/13 Alberto Alesina
- a.a. 2013/14 Kenneth Allen Shepsle
- a.a. 2014/15 Alberto Alesina
- a.a. 2015/16 Fabrizio Zilibotti
- a.a. 2016/17 Andrea Carriero
- a.a. 2017/18 Eric Ghysels
- a.a. 2018/19 Carlo Cottarelli
- a.a. 2019/20 Carlo Cottarelli
- a.a. 2020/21 Marco Di Maggio