Role
Full Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. She is also a lecturer at Bocconi University and a research fellow at IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research) and the BAFFI Center. She is a Fellow of CEPR.
Bio
Laura Bottazzi holds a degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an academic at Bocconi University and the University of Bologna. She has held positions at numerous international institutions, including University College London, ECARE, MIT, NBER, Tinbergen Institute, the World Bank, and EIEF. She was a member of the Board of Directors of Zurich Italia and has been a member of the European Parliament's Monetary Policy Expert Panel since 2024.
Her research interests include financial economics and the interaction between finance, innovation, and growth, particularly venture capital and the financing of innovative businesses, the real effects of financial shocks, financial literacy, trust in financial decisions, banks, and the diffusion of technological innovations. More recently, she has focused on online banks, supply chain finance, financial resilience, the gender gap in financial literacy, and the relationship between financial literacy and artificial intelligence.
She is the author of numerous scientific publications, including on European monetary policy. As part of the European Parliament's Expert Panel, she has contributed to policy papers on the ECB's monetary policy, the risks to the euro area arising from international uncertainty and US protectionism, and monetary policy communication. She has received major awards, including the Hicks-Tinbergen Medal in Economics and the Nasdaq Award for Best Paper on Capital Formation.