The 2015 grants for research projects have been awarded to:

Principal Investigator: Alessandro Barattieri (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Project title: “Banks Interconnectivity and Leverage”
Team members: Vincenzo Quadrini (USC and CEPR) and Laura Moretti (Central Bank of Ireland)

Principal Investigator: Rosario Crinò (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)
Project title: “Fighting Mobile Crime”
Team members: Giovanni Immordillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) and Salvatore Piccolo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

Principal Investigator: Francesco Drago (Università degli Studi di Messina, CSEF)
Project title: “Human Capital and Institutional Change”
Team members: Marianna Belloc (Sapienza-Università di Roma and CESifo) and Roberto Galbiati (CNRS and Sciences-Po)

Principal Investigator: Alessio Farcomeni (Sapienza-Università di Roma)
Project title: “An Appraisal of Material Depravation Based on Static an Dynamic Latent Class Models”
Team members: Maria Grazia Pittau (Sapienza-Università di Roma), Roberto Zelli (Sapienza-Università di Roma) and Francesco Dotto (Sapienza-Università di Roma)

Principal Investigator: Caterina Giannetti (Università degli Studi di Pisa)
Project title: “The Effect of Ethics Meetings on Risk-Taking Behaviour: an Experiment”
Team members: Francesco Feri (Royal Holloway University of London)

Principal Investigator: Elena Manzoni (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
Project title: “Do Individual Heterogeneity and Spatial Correlation Matter? An Innovative Approach to the Characterization of the European Political Space”
Team members: Francesca Rossi (University of Southampton)

Principal Investigator: Saverio Simonelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Project title: “Does Vote Counting Count? Labour Productivity through the Lens of an Electoral Task”
Team members: Ethan Ilzetzki (London School of Economics)

Principal Investigator: Lorenzo Spadoni (Universities of Tuscany Siena)
Project title: “The Effects of Competition on Risk-Taking: An Experimental Study”
Team members: Jan Potters (Tilburg University)