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Donato Masciandaro

Donato Masciandaro

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
34
Citations
7271
World Ranking
828
National Ranking
23

Economics and Finance

D-Index
36
Citations
7435
World Ranking
2770
National Ranking
65

Overview

Donato Masciandaro is affiliated with Bocconi University in Italy and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Social Sciences. Their research encompasses a range of topics with a focus on media influence, monetary policy, crime, governance, and economic development.

The scientist's main fields of study include Economics, Econometrics and Finance with 59 publications, and Social Sciences with 41 publications. Within these broader fields, subfields of study feature Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Political Science and International Relations.

Key topics within their work cover Media Influence and Politics, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance, Fiscal Policies and Political Economy, Corruption and Economic Development, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored are:

  • Money, privacy, anonymity: What do experiments tell us? (2021, Journal of Financial Stability)
  • Organized Crime and Firms' Financial Statements: Evidence from Criminal Investigations in Italy (2021, The Accounting Review)
  • Central bank communication and social media: From silence to Twitter (2023, Journal of Economic Surveys)
  • Organized crime, suspicious transaction reporting and anti-money laundering regulation (2020, Regional Studies)
  • Independence, conservatism, and beyond: Monetary policy, central bank governance and central banker preferences (1981-2021) (2021, Journal of International Money and Finance)

Masciandaro has frequently published in several venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (42 publications)
  • Journal of Financial Stability (2 publications)
  • Italian Economic Journal (2 publications)
  • The Accounting Review (1 publication)
  • Journal of Economic Surveys (1 publication)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Masciandaro are:

  • Davide Romelli
  • Riccardo Russo
  • Manuela Moschella
  • Federico Maria Ferrara
  • Gaia Rubera

Best Publications

  • Political and monetary institutions and public financial policies in the industrial countries

    Vittorio Grilli;Donato Masciandaro;Guido Tabellini

  • Money Laundering: the Economics of Regulation

    Donato Masciandaro

  • Global Financial Crime : Terrorism, Money Laundering and Offshore Centres

    Donato Masciandaro

  • Black Finance: The Economics of Money Laundering

    Donato Masciandaro;Elöd Takáts;B. Unger

  • Inside and outside the central bank: Independence and accountability in financial supervision: Trends and determinants

    Donato Masciandaro;Marc Quintyn;Michael W. Taylor

  • Institutions and policies

    Vittorio Grilli;Donato Masciandaro;Guido Tabellini

  • Divide et impera: Financial supervision unification and central bank fragmentation effect

    Donato Masciandaro

  • Politicians and financial supervision unification outside the central bank: Why do they do it?

    Donato Masciandaro

  • The Risk Based Approach in the New European Anti-Money Laundering Legislation: a Law and Economics View

    Lucia Dalla Pellegrina;Donato Masciandaro

  • The Economic Crisis; Did Financial Supervision Matter?

    Marc Quintyn;Rosaria Vega Pansini;Donato Masciandaro

  • Unification in Financial Sector Supervision: The Trade Off between Central Bank and Single Authority

    Donato Masciandaro

  • E Pluribus Unum? Authorities' Design in Financial Supervision: Trends and Determinants

    Donato Masciandaro

  • Money Laundering Regulation: The Micro Economics

    Donato Masciandaro

  • Ups and downs of central bank independence from the Great Inflation to the Great Recession: theory, institutions and empirics

    Donato Masciandaro;Davide Romelli

  • Money Laundering Regulation and Bank Compliance Costs: What Do Your Customers Know? Economics and the Italian Experience

    Donato Masciandaro;Umberto Filotto

  • Organized crime, money laundering and legal economy: theory and simulations

    Raffaella Barone;Donato Masciandaro

  • False and Reluctant Friends? National Money Laundering Regulation, International Compliance and Non-Cooperative Countries

    Donato Masciandaro

  • Helping hand or grabbing hand?: Politicians, supervision regime, financial structure and market view

    Donato Masciandaro;Marc Quintyn

  • Reforming Financial Supervision and the Role of The Central Banks: a review of global trends, causes ans effects (1998-2008)

    Donato Masciandaro;M. Quintyn

  • Does central bank independence still matter

    Jakob de Haan;Donato Masciandaro;Marc Quintyn

  • Credit Rating Agencies: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?

    Karel Lannoo;Gunther Tichy;Owain ap Gwilym;Donato Masciandaro

  • CENTRAL BANKS INDEPENDENCE - INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS, RANKINGS, AND CENTRAL BANKERS VIEWS

    Donato Masciandaro;Franco Spinelli

  • Monetary Regimes and Fiscal Deficits: A Comparative Analysis

    Donato Masciandaro;Guido Tabellini

  • The Economic Crisis

    Marc Quintyn;Rosaria Vega Pansini;Donato Masciandaro

  • Handbook of Central Banking, Financial Regulation and Supervision: After the Financial Crisis

    Sylvester C. W. Eijffinger;Donato Masciandaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Ferri
Giovanni Ferri Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta
Charles Goodhart
Charles Goodhart London School of Economics and Political Science
Guido Tabellini
Guido Tabellini Bocconi University
Paola Profeta
Paola Profeta Bocconi University
Sylvester C. W. Eijffinger
Sylvester C. W. Eijffinger Tilburg University
Jakob de Haan
Jakob de Haan University of Groningen
Emanuele Borgonovo
Emanuele Borgonovo Bocconi University
Philip Molyneux
Philip Molyneux Bangor University
Paul Atkinson
Paul Atkinson Cardiff University
Michael D. Bordo
Michael D. Bordo Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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