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Nicola Gennaioli

Nicola Gennaioli

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
53
Citations
17761
World Ranking
1163
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Nicola Gennaioli is affiliated with Bocconi University in Italy. Their research work primarily spans the fields of economics, econometrics, finance, sociology and political science, general decision sciences, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main fields of study for the scientist include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Nicola Gennaioli's research topics cover a range of areas, including:

  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Forecasting Techniques and Applications

Frequent co-authors in the scientist's publications include:

  • Pedro Bordalo
  • Andrei Shleifer
  • Rafael La Porta
  • Spencer Kwon

The scientist has made contributions to several prominent publication venues. These include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Financial Economics

Notable recent papers by Nicola Gennaioli include:

  • Overreaction in Macroeconomic Expectations (2020), published in American Economic Review
  • Memory, Attention, and Choice (2020), published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Salience (2022), published in Annual Review of Economics
  • Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict (2021), published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Belief Overreaction and Stock Market Puzzles (2023), published in Journal of Political Economy

Nicola Gennaioli has been recognized as an Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • Salience Theory of Choice Under Risk

    Pedro Bordalo;Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

  • Human Capital and Regional Development

    Nicola Gennaioli;Rafael La Porta;Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes;Andrei Shleifer

  • Neglected Risks, Financial Innovation, and Financial Fragility

    Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer;Andrei Shleifer;Robert W Vishny;Robert W Vishny

  • Salience and Consumer Choice

    Pedro Bordalo;Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

  • Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks, and Financial Institutions

    Nicola Gennaioli;Alberto Martin;Stefano Rossi

  • A Model of Shadow Banking

    Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer;Robert W. Vishny

  • Over-reaction in Macroeconomic Expectations

    Pedro Bordalo;Nicola Gennaioli;Yueran Ma;Andrei Shleifer

  • The modern impact of precolonial centralization in Africa

    Nicola Gennaioli;Ilia Rainer

  • Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles

    Pedro Bordalo;Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

  • What Comes to Mind

    Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

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  • State capacity and military conflict

    Nicola Gennaioli;Hans Joachim Voth

  • Memory, Attention, and Choice

    Pedro Bordalo;Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

  • Money Doctors: Money Doctors

    Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer;Robert Vishny

  • Expectations and Investment

    Nicola Gennaioli;Yueran Ma;Andrei Shleifer

  • Expectations and Investment

    Nicola Gennaioli;Yueran Ma;Andrei Shleifer

  • Memory, Attention, and Choice

    Pedro Bordalo;Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

  • Beliefs about Gender

    Pedro Bordalo;Katherine Baldiga Coffman;Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

  • The evolution of common law

    Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

  • Diagnostic Expectations and Stock Returns

    Pedro Bordalo;Nicola Gennaioli;Rafael La Porta;Andrei Shleifer

  • Salience and Asset Prices

    Pedro Bordalo;Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

  • Growth in regions

    Nicola Gennaioli;Rafael La Porta;Florencio Lopez De Silanes;Andrei Shleifer

  • Competition for Attention

    Pedro Bordalo;Nicola Gennaioli;Andrei Shleifer

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei Shleifer
Andrei Shleifer Harvard University
Robert W. Vishny
Robert W. Vishny University of Chicago
Rafael La Porta
Rafael La Porta Brown University
Enrico C. Perotti
Enrico C. Perotti University of Amsterdam
Hans-Joachim Voth
Hans-Joachim Voth University of Zurich
Guido Tabellini
Guido Tabellini Bocconi University
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes SKEMA Business School

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