Grants

Public policies and firms: the impact of credit- and liquidity-enhancing policies, public infrastructure investments, and green policies on the corporate sector.

PRIN 2022

In recent years, many governments have adopted policies to help firms navigate the Covid-19 crisis and accelerate structural change toward a more digital, inclusive, and green economy. This project, funder by a 2022 PRIN grant awarded by the Ministry of University and Research (298.166€) studies how these policies—and closely related policy tools—affect the corporate sector by combining theory with rich microdata and state-of-the-art micro-econometric methods. Specifically, the project will focus on three pillars: (1) credit- and liquidity-enhancing tools (public credit guarantees and monetary policy), (2) public infrastructure investment, and (3) green policies. Beyond direct effects on investment, productivity, reallocation, and exit, we examine transmission mechanisms and heterogeneous impacts across firms and sectors. We also quantify distributional consequences for workers (e.g, wage inequality) and firms (e.g., market power).

Research Team

University of Naples Federico II

University of Cagliari

University of Sassari

Funded Project

Titolo del progetto

Lorenzo Pandolfi, Tizio Caio, Lorem Ipsum

Published in Journal X, 2025

Download PDF

Download Slides

Mentoring and Schooling Choices: Experimental Evidence from Italy

1st UNICREDIT RESEARCH GRANT ON EDUCATION

This project, funded by the 1st Research Grant on Education awarded by the UniCredit Foundation (200,000€), evaluates My Future Buddy (MFB)—a near-peer mentoring program for upper-secondary school students in Southern Italy. Implemented by the Ortygia Foundation and co-designed with experto psychologists and pedagogists, MFB aims to (i) alleviate information frictions about returns to tertiary education, (ii) help students identify ambitious yet realistic career aspirations, and (iii) develop socio-emotional skill via laboratory sessions. We use a randomized controlled trial where some classes within sample school are randomly selected for participation, and collect data on school perforamnce, aspirations, beliefs, noncognitive skills, and post-school choices through a series of questionnaires and administrative school-level data. Finally, we also study mechanisms and heterogeneous treatment effects.

Research Team

Center for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF)

Funded Project

Shaping Futures: Mentoring and Post-secondary School Choices

Giannola, Jappelli, Langella, Pandolfi, Nisticò, and Zurla

Published in Journal X, 2025

Download PDF

Download Slides