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Stefano Caselli

Capital Markets A Key Asset for Growth

The coming months will be crucial for thinking about how to shape the European Single Market and how to make the European Union competitive with other economies. The values at stake, compared to the size of the United States on the one hand and China on the other, would be enough to justify the reasons for accelerating the path of political integration. This would enable the economic systems of the ...

Donato Masciandaro

Artificial Intelligence, Stock Markets, and “Newton's Lesson”

Stock markets are in good health, but AI-related stocks are performing even better: within the generally positive trend of stock prices, the performance of companies associated with so-called artificial intelligence stands out. It is undeniable that the applications of technologies for the production and distribution of information and knowledge, summarized under the term "artificial intelligence," ...

Mirko Olivieri, Ginevra Testa

Internationalization Strategies of Food Tech Startups: an Empirical Analysis

In recent years, the rapid adoption of digital platforms has transformed the relationship between organizations and markets, creating both new opportunities and challenges, particularly through today's social media-dominated environment. Social media tools not only facilitate interactions between individuals and companies but also promote internationalization, enabling businesses to connect with global ...

Andrea Dossi

Beyond practice updates. values and principles redefining controlling

The Planning and Control (P&C) system is undergoing a moment of profound transformation. Throughout all of business history, in the face of external changes, the control function evolves when it becomes clear that existing practices are losing relevance. In other words, they can no longer direct managerial action – the perennial litmus test of the usefulness of the P&C system. To regain this relevance, ...

Andrea Beltratti, Alessia Bezzecchi

Financial education: what national project?

Italy does not rank among the top countries for financial literacy according to OECD statistics. But is there enough awareness in our country that financial education is important for individuals and for the economy as a whole? We have been talking about financial education since at least the mid-1990s, so this is not a new emergency that we haven’t had time to address. How is it possible that after ...

Andrea Beltratti e Alessia Bezzecchi

Real Estate Securitizations 7.2: Benefits for Corporate Finance

Europe is undergoing a gradual transition that is reshaping the relationship between financial resources provided by intermediaries and those raised from the markets. As noted by President Draghi a decade ago, the financing landscape in Europe was significantly different from that in the United States, with intermediaries dominating the European continent and markets prevailing in the US. The bank-centric ...

Andrea Beltratti, Alessia Bezzecchi

Finance for Europe

In his latest report on Europe’s present and future competitiveness, Mario Draghi argues that Europe is in a paradoxical situation: it appears stable but has unknowingly fallen ill. It has set ambitious environmental targets, possibly beyond its reach, while neglecting applied business research and struggling with the ambiguity between national sovereignty and the role of supranational institutions. ...

Andrea Beltratti, Alessia Bezzecchi

AI must not only cut costs. It must create revenues

After a 2025 marked by continuous increases in the prices of stocks most exposed to Artificial Intelligence – an enthusiasm that also lifted the valuation of less exposed companies – 2026 began in a very different way. Within a few days, the share prices of firms producing software for services fell by more than 20%, influenced in part by a report from analysts at Citrini Research and by a blog ...

Gianluca Meloni, Daniele Astrella

Rethinking Risk Assessment: A Systemic Approach to Risk Measurement

Company management, understood as the balanced governance of the relationship between risk and return, is not a new topic, although it has evolved dramatically over time. While from a traditional perspective, this relationship was mainly interpreted in economic and financial terms, with the development of corporate governance models, the concept of return has gradually broadened to encompass a company’s ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2014/05) Gatti Stefano

The resurgence of M&A. Interview with Mr. Gregg Lemkau, Global Head M&A Goldman Sachs

Dear Mr. Lemkau, 2014 seems a very good year for M&A. Recent announced mega deals (see, for example, in the Cable TV, social media and pharmaceutical business) have opened the year in a risk on mood for corporations and investors. Can you please give us your point of view about the driving forces behind this renewed upward trend?   We are certainly seeing a resurgence of M&A activity in ...