Emerging Scholars in Banking and Finance Conference

The conference took place virtually on the 3^rd and 4^th December 2020.

View the Emerging Scholars in Banking and Finance Conference programme.

Organising Committee

Thorsten Beck; Barbara Casu; Giacinta Cestone; Angela Gallo; Francesc Rodriguez-Tous; Francisco Urzua.

Keynote: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University)

Elena Carletti is Professor of Finance at Bocconi University, a member of Board of Directors of Unicredit SpA and a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).
Ms Carletti is the founder Scientific Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance at the European University Institute, where she now serves as scientific advisor. Furthermore, she is research professor at the Bundesbank, a member of the Expert Panel on banking supervision for the European Parliament, a member of the Scientific Committee “Paolo Baffi Lecture” at the Bank of Italy, a member of Bruegel Scientific Committee, Research Fellow at CEPR, Fellow of the Finance Theory Group, CESifo, IGIER, and Wharton Financial Institutions Center.

Ms Carletti was Professor of Economics at the European University Institute from 2008 to 2013, holding a joint chair in the Economics Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Prior to that, she was Associate Professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt and Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim.

Among other appointments, she has worked as consultant for the OECD and the World Bank, has served in the review panel of the Irish Central Bank and of the Riskbank and has been a board member of the Financial Intermediation Research Society and of the Fondazione della Cassa di Risparmio di La Spezia.
Ms Carletti graduated from Bocconi University and received her Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and her Habilitation in Economics from Mannheim University. She is the author of numerous articles on Financial Intermediation, Financial Crises and Regulation, Competition Policy, Corporate Governance and Sovereign Debt.