Finance in the Tuscan Hills Series

The FBF seminar series ‘Finance in the Tuscan Hills’ focuses on financial sector issues and tries to bring together interested researchers from across the European University Institute.

Upcoming seminars

• May 2026 – European financial dependencies: the need for choices | With Maria Demertzis, Professor of Economic Policy (part-time) at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, and former Chief Economist for the Conference Board, Europe.

Past seminars

• April 2026 – Who invests in crypto? Wealth, financial constraints, and risk attitudes | With Marco Di Maggio, Full Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
• March 2026 – Long-run productivity, deindustrialisation and what comes next | With Dr Paul Fisher OBE, economist.
• January 2026 – The orderly liquidation of non-systemic banks: lessons from the UNIDROIT legislative guide on bank liquidation | With Myrte Thijssen, Senior Legal Officer at UNIDROIT, and Ignacio Tirado, Secretary-General at UNIDROIT.
• November 2025 – The handling of the Credit Suisse failure in light of the FSB’s key attributes for global systemically important banks | With Seraina Grünewald, Professor of International Economic Law and Finance Law at the University of St. Gallen and a Part-time Professor at the European University Institute.
• November 2025 – Rethinking banks’ liquidity requirements | With Rodrigo Coelho, Head of Policy Benchmarking at the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
• October 2025 – Financial literacy and financial education: are we making the grade? | With Gianni Nicolini, Professor of Finance at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy).
• April 2025 – Harsh Judgments Under Uncertainty: The Effect of Remote Examinations on Banking Regulation | With Sumit Agarwal, Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore
• April 2025 – Partisan Bank Runs | With Ryan Israelsen, Professor of Finance and the Kaufman Endowed Professor in Risk Management and Insurance at Michigan State University
• March 2025 – Wholesale Digital Euro: Navigating Geoeconomics and Bureaucratic Politics | With Lucia Quaglia, Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna
• February 2025 – Can Corporate Impact be Measured Globally? | With Mikael Homanen, Head of Scientific Research, Innovation and Partnerships at The Upright Project.
• December 2024 – Financial Resilience | With Enrico Perotti, Professor of International Finance at the University of Amsterdam
• November 2024 – Competition and Regulation in the Age of Data and AI | With Pinar Ozcan, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Oxford
• October 2024 – The legitimacy of Basel 3 in the light of administrative law | With David Murphy, visiting professor in practice at the LSE Law School
• June 2024 – (S)tra(te)gic Banking. The political economy of European (global) banking | With Elsa Clara Massoc, Assistant Professor in International Political Economy at the School of Economics and Political Science of the University of St Gallen
• April 2024 – Financial regulation and democratic politics since the great financial crises | With Pepper Culpepper, Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.
• April 2024 – Divestments and the Global Reallocation of Pollutive Assets | With Tobias Berg, Professor of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt and research fellow at CEPR.
• March 2024 –  Big tech interdependencies – a key policy blind spot | With Juan Carlos Crisanto, Deputy Chair – Financial Stability Institute (FSI), Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
• March 2024 – Green Capital Requirements | With Martin Oehmke, Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics and CEPR.
• February 2024 – Bank Credit and Market-based Finance for Corporations: The Effects of Minibond Issuances for Unlisted Firms | With Alessandro Scopelliti, Assistant Professor of Finance at KU Leuven.
• December 2023 – Quo Vadis? Evidence on New Firm-Bank Matching and Firm Performance Following ‘Sin’ Bank Closures | With Mikhail Mamonov, Assistant Professor in Finance at the Toulouse Business School.
• November 2023 – Breaking Invisible Barriers: Does Fast Internet Improve Access to Input Markets? | With Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.